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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Luis - Dec 6, 2018
Luis The warrior of dawn
The student tries paths of light and of darkness before discovering the middle way.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Seeing the kindness of all beings
When we recognize how friends, strangers and even those we have difficulty with are kind…
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Venerable Thubten Chonyi A Healthy Diet for the Mind
How cultivating compassion is like engaging in a mental fitness program for the mind. What…
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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…
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“The Compassionate Kitchen”
How eating and activities related to it—preparing food, offering and consuming it, and cleaning up—can…
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Cultivating love and compassion
Continuing to read from “Working with Afflictions” in Chapter 3 and covers “Cultivating Love and…
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Becoming friends with ourselves
Becoming our own friend means treating ourselves with kindness, respect and compassion; celebrating our successes…
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Luis
- Oct 16, 2018
The human story
Each person's individual journey contains challenges and difficulties that, if met with courage, can cause…
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Luis
- Oct 7, 2018
Return to reality: Love and hate
Seemingly contradictory feelings can lead to the same prison, a prison of ignorance.
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Working with unwanted thoughts and emotions
How we can work over time to replace troublesome thoughts and emotions with more compassionate…
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Tanya Lasuk
- Sep 23, 2018
The Teddy Bear Project
A surprise gift from an incarcerated person for one of the Abbey's volunteers.
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