compassion

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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Cultivating Compassion

Small city, big heart

Report on an international seminar and symposium on compassion and peace education in Brazil.

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Love and Self-esteem

What’s love got to do with it?

Exploring the true meaning of happiness and how generating love for others helps us to…

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Cultivating Compassion

Education in compassion and peace

I am glad to learn that the Federal University of Pampa (UNIPAMPA) in Brazil is…

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Stages of the Path

Aspiring bodhicitta

Focusing on aspiring bodhicitta: preliminaries to its generation and its characteristics.

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Harmony with the Environment

Power of water, power of the mind

The importance of caring for our planet out of respect for those who depend on…

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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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Buddhist Worldview

Dharma questions and answers

Venerable Thubten Chodron answers questions on a variety of Dharma topics from her experience.

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The Six Perfections

Identifying our buttons

Learning to work with our sensitivities and the power of forgiveness.

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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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