Cultivating Compassion

Methods for cultivating compassion that wishes all sentient beings to be free from suffering and its causes.

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Cultivating Compassion

Courageous compassion

What it means to have great compassion and make it part of daily life.

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An Open-Hearted Life

Connecting with compassion

The importance of having compassionate individuals in our lives, who can inspire our own practice…

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An Open-Hearted Life

The importance of regular practice

The benefits of a regular meditation practice, the obstacles that may arise and how to…

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An Open-Hearted Life

The four immeasurables

The four immeasurables—love, compassion, joy and equanimity—present a way to relate to other living beings…

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An Open-Hearted Life

Compassionate thinking and mentalizing

To develop compassion, we want to nurture beneficial and realistic ways of thinking and avoid…

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Compassion and empathy

How empathy is a core component of compassion, both in being able to feel compassion…

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Working with judgement and partiality

A look at the source of our judgement and bias, its influence on interactions, and…

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Cultivating Compassion

Cultivating compassion for ourselves and others

An interview on what it means to have compassion for ourselves, opening our heart to…

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An Open-Hearted Life

Self-compassion

What it means to have self-compassion and how it helps to cultivate compassion for others.…

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Exchanging self and others and taking and giving

How the taking and giving meditation is a powerful tool for eradicating self-centeredness and cultivating…

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An Open-Hearted Life

Rules of the universe and the benefits of cherishing...

How to identify our personal "Rules of the Universe" and their connection to the self-centered…

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The disadvantages of self-centeredness

Decreasing self-centeredness broadens our view beyond ourselves and changes our relationship with others and the…

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