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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Venerable Thubten Chonyi Seeing kindness everywhere
By recognizing the kindness all around us we will open our hearts to everyone.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Removing partiality
By recognizing our differences are superficial we can overcome our partiality and biases.
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Venerable Tenzin Tsepal Meditation on overcoming partiality
Guided analytic meditation to help develop impartial compassion.
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Incarcerated people 
Bringing Avalokiteshvara into the circle
An incarcerated person uses his Dharma practice to quietly support the victims of crimes.
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Healing past relationships
An incarcerated person finds new ways to support his Dharma practice.
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Kindness in times of disagreement
Recognizing our interdependence makes it easy to practice kindness in daily life.
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Venerable Sangye Khadro Practices for preparing for death
A brief introduction to preparatory practices for death, including 7-point mind training (lojong) and taking…
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Be your own therapist
How to pay attention to, identify, and unpack the thoughts that inform our emotions in…
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Introduction to the taking and giving meditation
Overcoming self-centredness, a major obstacle to doing the taking and giving meditation.
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No real owner of suffering
Commentary on verses about the equality of one’s own and others’ suffering.
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Compassion in action: a life of service
Reflections on being part of the first generation of Western monastics and what it means…
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