Compassion is of utmost importance
45 Middle-Length Lamrim
Venerable Sangye Khadro 
Stages of the Path 
Dec 5, 2024 Part of a series of weekly teachings on Lama Tsongkhapa's Middle-Length Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment.
- Meditation on the aspiration to attain bodhicitta
- Bodhicitta differentiates the Mahayana from the fundamental vehicle
- The sevenfold cause and effect instruction from Atisa
- The importance of compassion at the beginning, middle and end
- The first four are causes
- Meditating on others as having been our relatives makes them more attractive to us
- Seeing all beings as having been our mothers, their kindness, and the wish to repay their kindness
- Love and compassion
- The way the extraordinary attitude and bodhicitta are the effects
Venerable Sangye Khadro
California-born, Venerable Sangye Khadro ordained as a Buddhist nun at Kopan Monastery in 1974 and is a longtime friend and colleague of Abbey founder Venerable Thubten Chodron. She took bhikshuni (full) ordination in 1988. While studying at Nalanda Monastery in France in the 1980s, she helped to start the Dorje Pamo Nunnery, along with Venerable Chodron. Venerable Sangye Khadro has studied with many Buddhist masters including Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Lama Yeshe, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey, and Khensur Jampa Tegchok. At her teachers’ request, she began teaching in 1980 and has since taught in countries around the world, occasionally taking time off for personal retreats. She served as resident teacher in Buddha House, Australia, Amitabha Buddhist Centre in Singapore, and the FPMT centre in Denmark. From 2008-2015, she followed the Masters Program at the Lama Tsong Khapa Institute in Italy. Venerable has authored a number books found here, including the best-selling How to Meditate. She has taught at Sravasti Abbey since 2017 and is now a full-time resident.
