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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Dharma in Daily Life

Where cultural identity and interdependence connect

A talk about social harmony and individual happiness through compassion and loving kindness.

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Woman lighting a candle during Catholic mass.
New to Buddhism

Some challenges of changing religions

What to do when we find ourselves applying conditioning from our religion of origin to…

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Prison Poetry

Sravasti Grove

An incarcerated person expresses his gratitude for having met the Dharma.

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An Open-Hearted Life

Compassionate understanding of emotions

How a compassionate understanding of how emotions play out in our minds gives us a…

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Statue of Kuan Yin.
Bodhisattva Path

Taking and giving

How to practice tonglen, the taking-and-giving meditation.

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New to Buddhism

What is wisdom?

The Buddhist perspective of wisdom and how it contributes to cultivating love and compassion.

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Students' Insights

Dialoguing with someone who sees things differently ...

A long-time student of Buddhism uses the teachings in a conversation with "the other."

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An Open-Hearted Life

Mindful awareness

Mindful awareness helps us to observe, accept and take responsibility for our emotions, so we…

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Sunrise behind barbed wire fence.
By Prison Volunteers

Visit to Airway Heights Correctional Center

A nun visits a correctional facility for the first time in order to participate in…

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Boxes stacked in a room with a wooden floor.
On Refuge and Bodhicitta

There are no enemies

How our Dharma practice can help us with our tendency to classify sentient beings into…

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Dharma in Daily Life

Serve other beings as much as possible

The importance of serving others by practicing and preserving the Dharma, or in any other…

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