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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Kenneth Mondal A meaningful life
After a lifetime of looking for meaning in life, a student turns to the Dharma…
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Cultivating equanimity
How does one deal with one's own judgmental mind? A student examines the benefits of…
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Buddhist practice in the West
Interview on topics such as the role of monastics, compassion and the world, a simple…
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Venerable Thubten Chonyi “An Open-Hearted Life”: Preface by Profe...
A look at the western psychological perspective on compassion and how it relates to the…
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Meditating on taking and giving
Imagining taking on all the suffering of others in order to destroy our own self-centred…
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Venerable Thubten Samten Equanimity in daily life
How to fit the practice of equanimity into our daily lives, and outlining the taking-and-giving…
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Obstacles to compassion
Exploring the meditation on the kindness of others, and various obstacles to compassion, including the…
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Venerable Thubten Semkye Meditating on equanimity
A meditation on equanimity, in which we imagine those whom we currently find challenging in…
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Composed compassion
How to take responsibility for cultivating compassion in our own lives.
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The power of a kind motivation
A change in our motivation makes a big difference in how we relate to others.…
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Incarcerated people My prison education
If you can open yourself up to another person’s suffering, you are quickly motivated to…
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“An Open-Hearted Life”: Foreword by the ...
In the foreword to the book His Holiness the Dalai Lama explains why compassion is…
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