Cultivating Compassion
Methods for cultivating compassion that wishes all sentient beings to be free from suffering and its causes.
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Meditating on taking and giving
Imagining taking on all the suffering of others in order to destroy our own self-centred…
View PostEquanimity in daily life
How to fit the practice of equanimity into our daily lives, and outlining the taking-and-giving…
View PostObstacles to compassion
Exploring the meditation on the kindness of others, and various obstacles to compassion, including the…
View PostMeditating on equanimity
A meditation on equanimity, in which we imagine those whom we currently find challenging in…
View PostComposed compassion
How to take responsibility for cultivating compassion in our own lives.
View Post“An Open-Hearted Life”: Foreword by the ...
In the foreword to the book His Holiness the Dalai Lama explains why compassion is…
View Post“Living with an Open Heart”: The vastnes...
Buddhist ideas and techniques to awaken our compassionate motivation and bring our heartfelt aspirations to…
View Post“An Open-Hearted Life”: Living with auth...
An important part of living an authentic life is genuine compassion and it is a…
View PostCultivating happiness and contentment
Happiness comes from a mind free from disturbing emotions. not from external things. Cultivating a…
View PostExamining our expectations of others
With a realistic view of others—friends and family and coworkers—we can avoid disappointment and conflict,…
View PostBecoming friends with ourselves
Through self-acceptance we can treat ourselves with kindness and compassion, and see that we have…
View PostThree types of emotion and their influence
The threat system, the drive system and the safeness system from the psychological and Buddhist…
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