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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The four maras
Continuing the review of Chapter 12, "The Mind and Its Potentials", describing the four maras
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Healing from The heart
The restorative justice movement shows it's possible to let go of anger and develop compassion…
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Live each day with loving-kindness
Practical tips on how to bring loving-kindness into our daily lives and interpersonal relationships.
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We are all equal
Explanation of the first three points of the nine-point meditation on equalizing self and others.
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Generosity of the heart
How to cultivate the four brahmaviharas or divine abodes of love, compassion, empathetic joy, and…
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Empathic distress
How compassion can fall into empathic distress, or compassion fatigue, when our focus turns from…
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Meditation on empathic distress
A guided meditation on the difference between compassion and personal distress.
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Compassion manifesting in skillful means
An article about compassion and skillful means as an expression of compassion published in Mindfulness.
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Compassion and personal distress
When overwhelmed by seeing suffering we may slip into personal distress. We can cultivate compassion…
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Meditation on compassion and personal distress
A guided meditation to help examine our experience of observing suffering and distinguish between responding…
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Excellent qualities can be cultivated limitlessly
Continuing teaching from Chapter 12, explaining how it it is possible to develop positive mental…
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