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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Gomchen Lamrim

Gomchen Lamrim review: The afflictions

Venerable Thubten Chonyi reviews the afflictions and the factors stimulating their arising.

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Gomchen Lamrim

Great compassion and the great resolve

Commentary on the seven-point cause and effect method to develop bodhicitta. Developing great compassion by…

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Man writing in a notebook.
Prison Poetry

A suicide

An incarcerated person learns of his cousin's death.

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Practicing Democracy

Returning the United States to democracy and civility

Responding to the topic of an upcoming panel discussion at North Idaho College on civil…

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Gomchen Lamrim

Three types of compassion

Continued commentary on Chandrakirti's homage to great compassion, explaining three ways to observe sentient beings…

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Gomchen Lamrim

Chandrakirti’s homage to great compassion

The teachings for the advanced level practitioner begins with a commentary on Chandrakirti's homage to…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 12: Verses 286-295

Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe teaches on the importance of not lapsing from the right view, and…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 10: Verses 226-228

Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe starts teaching on individual refutations of the self that is put forward…

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Women conversing.
On Working with Afflictions

The conversation

A student listens to the conversations that go on inside her head, and decides to…

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Guided Meditations

Quieting the mind after the news

A meditation on Chenrezig in the wake of the past week's shootings of black men…

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Medicine Buddha Weeklong Retreat 2016

Exchanging self and others

Concluding the retreat with powerful verses by Shantideva on exchanging self and others.

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