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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How to See Yourself As You Really Are

Absorbing yourself in ultimate love

Teaching on understanding emptiness and training in methods to eradicate afflictive emotions and attain liberation…

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How to See Yourself As You Really Are

Subtle impermanence

Answering questions from retreat participants and teaching on understanding impermanence and generating love and compassion

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How to See Yourself As You Really Are

Reflecting on impermanence

Teaching on generating the sense of closeness with others and outlining the meditation to develop…

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Closeup of the statue of a smiling Buddha's face.
Prison Poetry

Love

Finding the value of love in searching for peace and equanimity.

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An Open-Hearted Life

Exchanging self and others and taking and giving

How the taking and giving meditation is a powerful tool for eradicating self-centeredness and cultivating…

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Parting from the Four Clingings

The Middle Way view

Talking about heart-warming love and compassion and teaching on attachment to inherently existent things and…

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Parting from the Four Clingings

Love and compassion

Speaking on developing close relationships without attachment and teaching on the meaning of love and…

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Parting from the Four Clingings

Equanimity and the kindness of others

Leading a meditation on equanimity and teaching on the the seven-point cause and effect method…

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An Open-Hearted Life

Rules of the universe and the benefits of cherishing...

How to identify our personal "Rules of the Universe" and their connection to the self-centered…

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An Open-Hearted Life

The disadvantages of self-centeredness

Decreasing self-centeredness broadens our view beyond ourselves and changes our relationship with others and the…

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Venerable Chodron sitting with a panel of presenters.
Cultivating Compassion

Learning, Living, and Teaching Bodhicitta

The publication of Venerable Thubten Chodron's panel talk at The International Conference on the Life,…

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