Cultivating Compassion
Methods for cultivating compassion that wishes all sentient beings to be free from suffering and its causes.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Compassion as an antidote to low-self esteem
How compassion works as an antidote to low self-esteem.
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Fear of compassion
How it takes time to form trusting relationships with others who have been harmed in…
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Friends who give bad advice
How habitual disturbing emotions are like friends giving bad advice.
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Removing partiality
By recognizing our differences are superficial we can overcome our partiality and biases.
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Introduction to the taking and giving meditation
Overcoming self-centredness, a major obstacle to doing the taking and giving meditation.
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Compassion in action: a life of service
Reflections on being part of the first generation of Western monastics and what it means…
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Empathic distress
How compassion can fall into empathic distress, or compassion fatigue, when our focus turns from…
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Compassion manifesting in skillful means
An article about compassion and skillful means as an expression of compassion published in Mindfulness.
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Compassion and personal distress
When overwhelmed by seeing suffering we may slip into personal distress. We can cultivate compassion…
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