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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Essence of a Human Life

Creating the causes for happiness

How the long-term view of creating causes for our future happiness helps us to be…

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Logo for The Yoga Hour.
Cultivating Compassion

The way of compassion

A conversational talk on compassion for The Yoga Hour with Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian.

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Essence of a Human Life

Relying upon Tara the liberator

Why Tara is a reliable source of refuge, and how the question of gender becomes…

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Venerable Chodron teaching in Jakarta, 2015.
Buddhism: One Teacher, Many Traditions

Dispositions, motivations, and practices

An overview of the motivations and practices that comprise the three levels of the path.

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Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience

Meditation and review on love, compassion and bodhic...

Concluding the seven-point cause and effect method to cultivate bodhicitta with guided meditations on love,…

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

37 Practices: Verses 9-10

How to expand our motivation beyond attaining a good rebirth to liberation and awakening to…

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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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Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience

Meditation and review on equanimity

Two meditations to develop equanimity, an attitude of equal care and concern for all sentient…

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Gems of Wisdom

Verse 107: The legs and eyes of the path

How the practices on the method and wisdom sides of the path correspond to the…

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Gems of Wisdom

Verse 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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