Join Tyler Woods, PhD as she talks about trying to stop seeking the answers outside of ourselves and realizing that we have everything right there in front of our faces. She shares the story of a Buddhist Rinpoche she met with, who told her that we do not see right in front of our faces and we tend to look beyond what is right in front of us. Listen to the rest of the story of seeing what is right in front of us.

Join Tyler Woods Ph.D. as she talks about the book Training the Mind and Cultivating Love and Kindness. She shares how training the mind is to allow yourself to let go of your suffering and be kind to all. She believes that training the mind is about commitment and purpose. She believes setting intentions is about how we navigate our daily lives and cultivating a mindset that will guide our actions, emotions, and thoughts to teach us love and kindness.

Join Tyler Woods as she tackles a question: Why did she leave Christianity for Buddhism? She talks about running into Buddhism while she was in college and shares how she wanted to grow spiritually rather than feel religiously trapped. She shares how we should let go of past hurts and feel inner peace. She shares how mindfulness and equanimity help us foster forgiveness and let go of our past.

Join Tyler Woods today as she talks about how fear is a product of ego. She recently visited fear for a while and learned that fear is a protective reaction of the ego which wants s to hold, to have, and not to let go. She explains that the ego looks for fearful situations and helps protect us by keeping it active. It looks to seek out. Join her as she talks about ways to defeat fear so ego cannot harm us.

Join Tyler Woods today as she talks about loving people as is unconditional love. Love is a spiritual

Join Tyler Woods today as she begins to start talking about ego. She realizes people get upset when we talk about ego, and no one wants to talk about it. Woods believes that it

Join Tyler Woods as she talks about having the joy and sadness of being with a friend who's life is ending. Tyler talks about how death is undeniable and inescapable and with that said, she believes it is about understanding how important life and death really is from a Buddhist psychology aspect. Join her today as she talks about death, impermanence and acceptance.

Tyler Woods believes Buddhism teaches that true patience being in the very moment and the willingness to accept things as they are. Things happens, and a compassionate response the suffering of impatience would be to have an act of compassion toward ourselves. But how do we learn patience? Listen to today's episode.

Join Tyler Woods PhD as she talks about Buddhism, addictions and recovery. She has been sober for over 33 years. She started off in AA and the path was not spiritual rather more on the Christian side. She began to learn more about the truth of her suffering through Buddhism and remains sober today.

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Join Tyler Woods as she talks about how people need some sort of conflict it seems in their lives. Conflict seems like the spice of life. After all, what is fiction without great conflict? In Buddhism, conflicts arise when we lack real insight. Buddha usually tried to bring peace in situations of conflict and Buddhism teaches us some general rules about conflict, mainly loving-kindness and a positive state of mind. If we keep that state of mind, conflict is easier to deal with.