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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Ask before you assume
How we can learn to question our assumptions and connect with others.
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The reason self-centeredness exists
How compassion helps us relate more wisely to ourselves and others.
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Preliminaries, bodhicitta, and transforming adversity
How to transform difficulties into opportunities for spiritual development.
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Cultivating compassion in chaos
By cultivating compassion, we look beyond the past and transform our lives.
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Equalizing and exchanging self and others
Exploring the disadvantages of self-centeredness and the advantages of cherishing others.
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Seven-point cause and effect instructions
A practical method for generating bodhicitta and transforming how we relate to others.
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Winning through clarity and resilience
Exploring prison work, compassion, and every person's potential for transformation.
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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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Five questions on practicing the Dharma
A series of questions on Buddhism, making our practice meaningful, and living the Dharma.
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The four establishments of mindfulness
Beginning Chapter 12 on the four establishments of mindfulness: mindfulness of body, feeling, mind, and…
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Compassion in troubled times
The true meaning of compassion and how developing this quality benefits ourselves and others.
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