The three levels of love, compassion, and total commitment, and the eight precepts of aspiring bodhicitta.
Love, compassion, and total commitment
Tag Archives | 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.
Prayer to be reborn in Amitabha’s pure land: verses 9-13
Aspiring to teach the Dharma to those in unfortunate states according to their disposition. The need for the transmitted and realized Dharma.
Prayer to be reborn in Amitabha’s pure land: verses 5-8
Making aspirations to be reborn in Amitabha’s pure land, to receive teachings there, and understand them in order to develop the abilities to benefit others.
Mind training for a modern world
How to use everyday situations to challenge habitual ways of thinking in order to bring the mind more in accord with reality and to progress on the path.
