Review: Compassion, the great resolve, and bodhicitta
59 Middle-Length Lamrim
Venerable Thubten Chonyi 
Stages of the Path 
Mar 13, 2025 Part of a series of weekly teachings on Lama Tsongkhapa's Middle-Length Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment.
- Each step of the seven point cause and effect method leads to the next step
- The seed of compassion is a natural part of our mind
- The strength of our compassion depends on our understanding of the suffering of others
- Overview of the steps leading to compassion
- Cultivating compassion by reflecting on the three types of dukkha experienced by sentient beings
- Guided meditation on compassion
- The great resolve, taking responsibility to help all sentient beings
- The effect—bodhicitta
- Questions and comments
Venerable Thubten Chonyi
Ven. Thubten Chonyi is a nun in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. She has studied with Sravasti Abbey founder and abbess Ven. Thubten Chodron since 1996. She lives and trains at the Abbey, where she received novice ordination in 2008. She took full ordination at Fo Guang Shan in Taiwan in 2011. Ven. Chonyi regularly teaches Buddhism and meditation at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane and, occasionally, in other locations as well.
