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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Middle Way Philosophy

The Madhyamaka view: Questions and answers

Geshe Dadul Namgyal answers questions from the first day of teachings on the Madhyamaka view.

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Guided Meditations

Love your neighbor

A meditation on extending a sense of care and affection to people whom we find…

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Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience

Overview of the stages of the path

The conclusion of the teaching series with a broad overview of all the stages of…

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Young Adults Explore Buddhism 2015

The kindness of our enemies

Expanding on our motivation to learn to see our enemies as having been kind to…

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Young Adults Explore Buddhism 2015

The kindness of others

A motivation turns into a talk on appreciating the kindness of all sentient beings, without…

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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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