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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Working with Emotions

Ask before you assume

How we can learn to question our assumptions and connect with others.

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Cover of "The Key of Compassion" with the heading, "How can we find compassion in these chaotic times?"
Books

Cultivating compassion in chaos

By cultivating compassion, we look beyond the past and transform our lives.

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Meditation

Equalizing and exchanging self and others

Exploring the disadvantages of self-centeredness and the advantages of cherishing others.

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Meditation

Seven-point cause and effect instructions

A practical method for generating bodhicitta and transforming how we relate to others.

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Prison Dharma

Winning through clarity and resilience

Exploring prison work, compassion, and every person's potential for transformation.

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Living in Community

Advice to Sravasti Abbey’s Monastic Community

In an environment like this, which is so conducive to practice, I feel very joyful…

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Teachings

The boundless heart

The four immeasurable qualities and the benefits of cultivating them.

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Dharma in Daily Life

Five questions on practicing the Dharma

A series of questions on Buddhism, making our practice meaningful, and living the Dharma.

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Volume 4 Following in the Buddha's Footsteps

The four establishments of mindfulness

Beginning Chapter 12 on the four establishments of mindfulness: mindfulness of body, feeling, mind, and…

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Cultivating Compassion

Compassion in troubled times

The true meaning of compassion and how developing this quality benefits ourselves and others.

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