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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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On Refuge and Bodhicitta

Dharma medicine for these times

Cultivating compassion in politically turbulent times.

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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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Dharma in Daily Life

Things depend on other things

Interview on how the teachings on interdependence apply to daily life.

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Stages of the Path

Taking and giving—tonglen

Explanation of exchanging self and others and taking and giving.

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Stages of the Path

Cherishing others

The benefits of cherishing others, and what it means to exchange oneself and others.

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Stages of the Path

Disadvantages of self-centeredness

How the self-centered attitude is the cause of problems in our life.

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