Beyond Blame

Venerable Thubten Semkye from Sravasti Abbey gives a short talk and guides a meditation on how to go beyond blaming others and ourselves when things go wrong and instead get clear about what we are responsible for. By understanding causal dependence, we are empowered to take charge of our emotions and learn the tools to work with them.

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Thank you for bringing light to a challenging subject! I’ll definitely be revisiting this 🙏

Thank you, very helpful and transformative

Thank you for sharing this.

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Nice talk on a difficult subject. Thank You.

A very useful tool to examine the concept of blame. Straightforward yet dense. I intend to listen again to fully take it in. Thank you so much

This teaching really hit me in the gut (in the good way)! My relationship with my father is ROUGH, to put it mildly. This has given me a lot of things to think about. 🙏🏼

Thank you, very valuable insights!🙏

WONDERFULLY Thought-Provoking❣️🙏🏻💕

Really supportive talk. Allows softening and widening understanding and perspective, thank you.

Thank you. That's beautiful way of looking at your mind.

Amazing this should be though to everyone !!!!

That was exactly what I needed for that moment in time. I’m coming back to this one later tonight with my journal and pen. Yes real paper! Thanks for encouraging me to actually DO something instead of just thinking about doing something. I encourage anyone struggling with blame to listen to this teaching 👍😀🙏

I will come back to this..I realize that my blaming was related to attachment and I am the one that has to let go of that. It could have been a lesson and maybe that lesson was about letting go of all attachments which is how we become better people. Life is not about us butabout not us.

Very wise advice thank you

I should listen to this talk daily. This episode describes my 90 year old mother perfectly. Yesterday, Sunday, was a trying day with her inability to control her emotions and place blame on all otjers, even strangers. This was a lot of info coming at me but I can see already how helpful this will be for me each time I listen. Meditation has been a life saver for me since I started 2 years ago