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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The power of compassion in a chaotic world
By cultivating broad-minded compassion we can react in a compassionate way to other living beings…
View Post“The Compassionate Kitchen”
How eating and activities related to it—preparing food, offering and consuming it, and cleaning up—can…
View PostCultivating love and compassion
Continuing to read from “Working with Afflictions” in Chapter 3 and covers “Cultivating Love and…
View PostBecoming friends with ourselves
Becoming our own friend means treating ourselves with kindness, respect and compassion; celebrating our successes…
View PostThe human story
Each person's individual journey contains challenges and difficulties that, if met with courage, can cause…
View PostReturn to reality: Love and hate
Seemingly contradictory feelings can lead to the same prison, a prison of ignorance.
View PostWorking with unwanted thoughts and emotions
How we can work over time to replace troublesome thoughts and emotions with more compassionate…
View PostThe Teddy Bear Project
A surprise gift from an incarcerated person for one of the Abbey's volunteers.
View PostThe power of optimism and types of emotion
How an optimistic attitude is important in maintaining compassion. A look at different ways to…
View PostThe joy of serving sentient beings
How compassion and benefiting others benefits ourselves and others now and in the future. Reflections…
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