bodhicitta
Bodhicitta is the mind dedicated to attaining awakening for the benefit of all sentient beings. Included are explanations of bodhicitta, its advantages, and how to develop bodhicitta.
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Creating the causes for happiness
How the long-term view of creating causes for our future happiness helps us to be…
View PostThe way of compassion
A conversational talk on compassion for The Yoga Hour with Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian.
View PostRelying upon Tara the liberator
Why Tara is a reliable source of refuge, and how the question of gender becomes…
View PostMeditation and review on equalizing and exchanging s...
Generating bodhicitta through the meditations on equalizing and exchanging self and others.
View PostDispositions, motivations, and practices
An overview of the motivations and practices that comprise the three levels of the path.
View PostMeditation and review on love, compassion and bodhic...
Concluding the seven-point cause and effect method to cultivate bodhicitta with guided meditations on love,…
View Post37 Practices: Verses 9-10
How to expand our motivation beyond attaining a good rebirth to liberation and awakening to…
View PostDeveloping compassion
Definition of compassion and the conditions we already have in place to cultivate it.
View PostMeditation and review on seeing the kindness of all ...
Kindness is all around us and we can condition ourselves to see it in every…
View PostMeditation and review on equanimity
Two meditations to develop equanimity, an attitude of equal care and concern for all sentient…
View PostVerse 107: The legs and eyes of the path
How the practices on the method and wisdom sides of the path correspond to the…
View PostVerse 106: Transcending the indulgences of samsara a...
Giving up the self-centered mind and generating bodhicitta to accomplish the path to full awakening.
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