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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Refuting a primal substance and independent self
Covering Verses 26-32 of Chapter 6, presenting Buddhist refutations of a primal substance and the…
View PostMeditation on compassion for friends, strangers, and...
A guided analytical meditation on developing compassion for friends, strangers, and enemies.
View PostAfflictions, our real enemy
Finishing teaching from Chapter 4, describing how to see afflictions as our real enemy and…
View PostWhen a dear one has a medical emergency
In a time of uncertainty, letting our minds relax can be of benefit to ourselves…
View PostCompassionate communication
How to bring compassion to our communication and how to look at situations objectively without…
View PostMeditation on compassion for our enemies
A guided analytical meditation to cultivate compassion for those we have difficulty with or who…
View Post21st-century Buddhists
Ethical conduct and compassion are the keys to happiness for ourselves and for all sentient…
View PostCompassion and empathy review
Further commentary on how empathy is important in being compassionate, how to develop empathy and…
View PostGuided meditation on compassion
A guided meditation to make the mind more familiar and more habituated to the feeling…
View PostMedicine Buddha’s unshakable resolves 7-12
The second part of the explanation the Medicine Buddha’s unshakable resolves. Resolves 7 through 12…
View Post“Letter to a Friend”: Verse 40 review
How we can cultivate the four immeasurables of love, compassion, joy, and equanimity, and how…
View PostMedicine Buddha’s unshakable resolves 1-6
Part one of the explanation of the Medicine Buddha’s unshakable resolves—resolves 1 though 6. Also…
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