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Karuna the cat sits on a meditation cushion.
Cultivating Compassion

Becoming our own best friend

How to cultivate a healthy long-term friendship with ourselves. Learning to recognize the self-centered thought…

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Buddha statue in front of trees in the autumn turning yellow and orange.
37 Practices of Bodhisattvas

37 Practices: Verses 4-8

Looking at "bad" friends who take us away from the Dharma and cherishing the spiritual…

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Karuna the cat sits on a meditation cushion.
Cultivating Compassion

Developing compassion

Definition of compassion and the conditions we already have in place to cultivate it.

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Buddha statue in front of trees in the autumn turning yellow and orange.
37 Practices of Bodhisattvas

37 Practices: Verses 1-3

When we realize the value of a precious human life we will feel like a…

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Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

Abandoning the 10 nonvirtues, part 1

Review of the first five of the ten non-virtuous pathways: killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, lying,…

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Venerable Chodron and Venerable Samten sitting with a group of inmates in the Medan prison chapel.
By Prison Volunteers

Connecting with incarcerated women in Indonesia

Reflections on a visit together with Venerable Thubten Chodron to a women's prison in Indonesia.

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Heart made of rocks.
Healing Anger

Transforming anger into compassion

Anger isn't subdued by rearranging the world and the beings in it, but through internal…

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Contentment and Happiness

The Buddhist approach to happiness

Living life with the view that my happiness is most important actually leads to unhappiness.…

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Thangka image of Drakpa Gyaltsen.
Parting from the Four Clingings

Parting from the Four Clingings

Verses describing what to practice and what to abandon along the path to awakening.

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Cover of Don't Believe Everything You Think.
Books

Living with wisdom and compassion

A study guide for the book "Don’t Believe Everything You Think."

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