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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Contemplating the Medicine Buddha vows
How thinking about the bodhisattvas' promise to benefit sentient beings puts our mind into their…
View PostAbbreviated recitations
Recitations to prepare the mind for meditation, to make it receptive for transformation and attaining…
View PostOffering precepts in prison
Connecting with an incarcerated person leads to offering precepts in an Ohio prison.
View PostThe Mind and Life VIII conference: Destructive emotions
A perennial human predicament: the nature and destructive potential of “negative” emotions.
View PostArchbishop Desmond Tutu in Seattle
Reflections on the continued peace effort following the end of apartheid.
View PostProstrations to the 35 Buddhas
How to do purification practice and how to visualize the 35 Buddhas.
View PostLiving the Dharma
The importance of studying the teachings and meditating on them, making the Dharma central to…
View PostFinding our way
A reflection on the Dharma, working with afflictions, self-esteem, ordination, and living within the precepts.…
View PostMy true religion is kindness
An interview with Rinchen Khandro Chogyel on her life of socially engaged Buddhism.
View PostCompassion through the dying process
Many issues surround the end of life for caregivers as well as the dying. A…
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