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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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 26-1: Filled with good qualities

Seeing filled containers with a generous mind and wishing good qualities for others.

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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 25-2: Ascetic practices

A description and the purposes of 12 ascetic practices that the Buddha allowed.

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Eight Verses of Thought Transformation

Holding others dear

How to counteract the judgmental mind that over-emphasizes the faults of others.

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Venerable Chodron teaching.
Eight Verses of Thought Transformation

The reality of our existence

Seeing that there is no freedom when we take rebirth under ignorance, afflictions, and karma.…

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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 25-1: Without ornaments

A practice to transform whatever we encounter, so that it’s not related to ego.

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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 24-1: Wearing ornaments

Being adorned by inner qualities of generosity, ethical conduct, fortitude, joyous effort, meditative stabilization, and…

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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 23-2: Mahayana walking meditation

Walking meditation in Mahayana, Pali and Prasangika way. Not to let a moment go by…

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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 23-1: Lifting all beings from samsara

A walking meditation to remember bodhicitta, be more caring and mindful for the people around…

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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 22-1: Bodhicitta while walking

The welfare of sentient beings is transforming the mind into virtue and abandoning the afflictions.

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Verse 21-4: Emptiness of mind

The clear light nature of the mind, transition from the sutra view to the tantric…

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