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

Developing inner peace through transforming perspect...

How to cultivate a positive perspective and a brief practice based on building resilience.

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An Open-Hearted Life

The importance of empathic listening

How listening is different from just hearing, and how we can cultivate the skill of…

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Antidotes to Afflictions

Meditation on perceived threats and needs

A guided analytical meditation on working with perceived threats, and how to change how we…

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Shantideva Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

It’s unreasonable to be angry

Giving commentary to Verses 38-42, discussing various reasons for why it's unreasonable to be angry…

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Science and Buddhism

Science and technology in service of society

Whatever innovations emerge in the fields of science and technology, our motivation and ethical conduct…

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Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience

Exchanging self and others

The five points of exchanging self and others and instructions for taking and giving practice.

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Shantideva Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

Fortitude for those who cause harm

Discussing the tenets of non-Buddhist schools and going to cover Verses 33-38 that discuss how…

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Cultivating Compassion

Embracing common humanity

A talk about the practice of equalizing self and others, its benefits, and overcoming fear…

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Cultivating Compassion

Self-compassion

What self-compassion is and what it is not, plus a discussion on obstacles to self-compassion…

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Cultivating Compassion

Compassion, empathy, and attachment

Guided meditations on compassion, the difference between compassion and empathy, and compassion practice in Mahayana…

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Cultivating Compassion

When compassion arises

A talk about what compassion is, where the word comes from, and what happens when…

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