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Tag Archives | compassion
Seeing the kindness of all beings
When we recognize how friends, strangers and even those we have difficulty with are kind to us a feeling of appreciation and caring arises.
The power of compassion in a chaotic world
By cultivating broad-minded compassion we can react in a compassionate way to other living beings in everyday situations.
New! “The Compassionate Kitchen”
How eating and activities related to it—preparing food, offering and consuming it, and cleaning up—can wake us up and increase our kindness and care for others.
Cultivating love and compassion
Continuing to read from “Working with Afflictions” in Chapter 3 and covers “Cultivating Love and Compassion” and “A Good State of Mind.”
“An Open-Hearted Life”: Becoming friends with ourselves
Becoming our own friend means treating ourselves with kindness, respect and compassion; celebrating our successes while working to improve.
Compassion in living and dying
How to live and die with compassion.
The human story
Each person’s individual journey contains challenges and difficulties that, if met with courage, can cause the heart to grow.
Return to reality: Love and hate
Seemingly contradictory feelings can lead to the same prison, a prison of ignorance.
“An Open-Hearted Life”: Working with unwanted thoughts and emotions
How we can work over time to replace troublesome thoughts and emotions with more compassionate ones, and establish new, compassionate mental habits.
