How to practice tonglen, the taking-and-giving meditation.
Tag Archives | bodhicitta
Serve other beings as much as possible
The importance of serving others by practicing and preserving the Dharma, or in any other way that we can be of help to them.
Share your love, wisdom, and wealth
The importance of learning to distinguish love from attachment so that we can share our love openly with all other beings.
Love, compassion, and total commitment
The three levels of love, compassion, and total commitment, and the eight precepts of aspiring bodhicitta.
Closeness to others
How recognizing the kindness of others develops a sense of closeness to them.
Compassion as an antidote to anger
The antidotes to anger as the first step towards cultivating compassion for all sentient beings.
A bucket in a well
Explaining the analogy of cyclic existence as a bucket in a well, focusing on karma and self-grasping ignorance.
Feeling empathy
Comparing rebirth in cyclic existence to a bucket going up and down a well.
The benefits of bodhichitta
Bodhicitta—the aspiration for awakening for the benefit of all sentient beings—is the most noble intention we can have. Compassion is one of its chief causes.
Prayer to be reborn in Amitabha’s pure land: verses 22-31
Things and persons exist dependently but ignorance grasps them to exist independently. Overcoming obstacles to perfecting the bodhisattva practices.
