Oct 10, 2026 · 21 min · 9 segments
Rohit Singh studies Tibetan Budhism in Nepal and Northern India, and teaches the subject at Denison University in Ohio. He believes that western education is very successful in some ways, but it…
One teacher I studied with in Dharamsala, India, where, um, at The Library of Tibetan Works & Archives, he described, like, the negative emotions, the term is klesha in the Sanskrits.
The negative emotions are like, like these, we're like in a jungle, and these, like, wild animals are stalking us, and those are the negative emotions.
They want to take over the mind.
They want to govern our actions, and we have to guard ourselves.
[gentle music] And our guard is the practices of meditating on compassion, the various other tools and perspectives we gain from the studying the Buddhist scriptures and learning from the, from the, from, from, from, from the authentic teachers of the tradition.
The objective of these studies is to achieve wisdom and compassion, two wings of the same bird.
Compassion does have an enemy, and that enemy in Tibetan Buddhism is anger.
There's a saying that, like, one single moment of anger can annihilate lifetimes of great merit that's been achieved.
[gentle music] Think about that, and if we get angry, uh, so some, it's almost like being intoxicated.
You lose control of your senses.
You s- you do something that you regret with your body, your speech, or your mind, and so it's just living in the world, there's a lot of obstacles, and if we don't keep the practice up, at any one second, we could give in to anger.
And this is one of the other contributions I think we see really articulated in Tibetan Buddhism, is understanding how different emotions are all interrelated.
So for every negative emotion, Tibetan Buddhism has a practice for, um, generating antidote.
The antidote to anger is patience.
So if you, one wants to really cultivate compassion and love for others, one has to al- one has to re- recognize the obstacles and hindrances, especially things like anger and hatred, and realize because we're human, they're gonna pop up in our mind, and we have to be prepared to deal with them.
And so part of the, the practices of this mind training and meditation is kind of like giving us tools to defend ourselves against what is believed to be the greatest enemy, and that's not someone out there, but it's the enemy within, these negative emotions.
[gentle music]
These kinds of instructions have attracted a great deal of interest from Western mental health professionals.
It's common to find therapists and social workers at KTC in Columbus on Sunday mornings.
She says that Tibetan Buddhist compassion practice, it's the original cognitive and behavioral therapy.
One teacher I studied with in Dharamsala, India, where, um, at The Library of Tibetan Works & Archives, he described, like, the negative emotions, the term is klesha in the Sanskrits.
The negative emotions are like, like these, we're like in a jungle, and these, like, wild animals are stalking us, and those are the negative emotions.
They want to take over the mind.
They want to govern our actions, and we have to guard ourselves.
[gentle music] And our guard is the practices of meditating on compassion, the various other tools and perspectives we gain from the studying the Buddhist scriptures and learning from the, from the, from, from, from, from the authentic teachers of the tradition.
The objective of these studies is to achieve wisdom and compassion, two wings of the same bird.
Compassion does have an enemy, and that enemy in Tibetan Buddhism is anger.
There's a saying that, like, one single moment of anger can annihilate lifetimes of great merit that's been achieved.
[gentle music] Think about that, and if we get angry, uh, so some, it's almost like being intoxicated.
You lose control of your senses.
You s- you do something that you regret with your body, your speech, or your mind, and so it's just living in the world, there's a lot of obstacles, and if we don't keep the practice up, at any one second, we could give in to anger.
And this is one of the other contributions I think we see really articulated in Tibetan Buddhism, is understanding how different emotions are all interrelated.
So for every negative emotion, Tibetan Buddhism has a practice for, um, generating antidote.
The antidote to anger is patience.
So if you, one wants to really cultivate compassion and love for others, one has to al- one has to re- recognize the obstacles and hindrances, especially things like anger and hatred, and realize because we're human, they're gonna pop up in our mind, and we have to be prepared to deal with them.
And so part of the, the practices of this mind training and meditation is kind of like giving us tools to defend ourselves against what is believed to be the greatest enemy, and that's not someone out there, but it's the enemy within, these negative emotions.
[gentle music]
These kinds of instructions have attracted a great deal of interest from Western mental health professionals.
It's common to find therapists and social workers at KTC in Columbus on Sunday mornings.
She says that Tibetan Buddhist compassion practice, it's the original cognitive and behavioral therapy.
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