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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On Refuge and Bodhicitta

Dharma medicine for these times

Cultivating compassion in politically turbulent times.

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Three Principal Aspects of the Path

Caught in the four currents

Examining the situation for all beings in cyclic existence and how bodhicitta helps.

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Ethics in the Modern World

Buddhist Monastic Experience

How Tibetan Buddhism can help modern people live ethically and with compassion.

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Stages of the Path

Review: Tonglen practice

Review of the tonglen (taking and giving) meditation practice.

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Workplace Wisdom

Compassion in the workplace

How to repay the kindness of others using our unique talents and abilities.

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Dharma Poetry

Another way

A monastic's prayer to renounce hatred and cultivate compassion.

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Love and Self-esteem

A zillion reasons to love sentient beings

Exploring the advantages of loving-kindness and how to develop this beneficial quality.

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Stages of the Path

The great scope of the lamrim

Bodhicitta, the wisdom realizing emptiness and a surprise birthday celebration!

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Stages of the Path

The middle scope of the lamrim

Renunciation, the three higher trainings and a preview of the great scope of the lamrim…

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