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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Venerable Sangye Khadro The kindness of others
The benefits of loving-kindness, the kindness of others, and verses from Nagarjuna’s “Tale of a…
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Overcoming obstacles to kindness
What obstacles get in the way of our being kind to others? How we can…
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Monk chat: Questions about how to practice
Short videos covering questions about cultivating compassion and how to relate to a spiritual teacher.
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Cheri Langston What a wonderful world!
A student reflects on how pain and suffering can be transformed into "little bits of…
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Compassion + Technology
How obsession with the latest technology hinders us from thinking about its negative impacts on…
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Nonviolence and compassion
A student responds to Venerable Thubten Chodron's talk on the causes and effects of war.
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Our game plan in a time of war
How to work with the emotions that arise in our minds in response to the…
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Pleasing sentient beings
Reading Verses 131-134 of Chapter 6, explaining what it means to please sentient beings and…
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Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe Conventional and ultimate bodhicitta
An in-depth discussion of the two types of bodhicitta: conventional and ultimate.
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Retaliation
Covering Verses 122-132 from Chapter 6, exploring various reasons why retaliation against those who harm…
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Developing great compassion
Review steps preceding the cultivation of compassion and specific instruction on how to cultivate compassion.
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