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Compassion is the wish for sentient beings to be free from suffering and its causes. Posts include teachings and meditations on how to develop and increase compassion.

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Students' Insights

We are the same

After arriving in India at the beginning of the year, I went to a spiritual…

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Ethics in the Modern World

Cultivating inner peace

How transforming our mind enables us to create peace in a chaotic world.

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Working with Anger

Contemplating the faults of anger

Two faults of anger to contemplate and why Buddhahood depends on even cockroaches.

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On Refuge and Bodhicitta

Dharma medicine for these times

Cultivating compassion in politically turbulent times.

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Three Principal Aspects of the Path

Caught in the four currents

Examining the situation for all beings in cyclic existence and how bodhicitta helps.

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Ethics in the Modern World

Buddhist Monastic Experience

How Tibetan Buddhism can help modern people live ethically and with compassion.

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Stages of the Path

Review: Tonglen practice

Review of the tonglen (taking and giving) meditation practice.

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Workplace Wisdom

Compassion in the workplace

How to repay the kindness of others using our unique talents and abilities.

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Dharma Poetry

The m_ssing piece

An answer to important questions about life.

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Dharma Poetry

Another way

A monastic's prayer to renounce hatred and cultivate compassion.

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Stages of the Path

Review: Compassion, the great resolve, and bodhicitta

The last 3 steps of the 7-fold cause and effect method to generate bodhicitta.

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Volume 4 Following in the Buddha's Footsteps

Advice for monastics

Explaning the section of advice for Monastics, teaching from Chapter 5.

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