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 Semkye Becoming our own best friend
How to cultivate a healthy long-term friendship with ourselves. Learning to recognize the self-centered thought…
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Venerable Thubten Chonyi Developing compassion
Definition of compassion and the conditions we already have in place to cultivate it.
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Venerable Thubten Samten Connecting with incarcerated women in Indonesia
Reflections on a visit together with Venerable Thubten Chodron to a women's prison in Indonesia.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Transforming anger into compassion
Anger isn't subdued by rearranging the world and the beings in it, but through internal…
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Cultivating love and kindness
A talk on working with disturbing emotions based on the book "An Open-Hearted Life."
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Verse 107: The legs and eyes of the path
How the practices on the method and wisdom sides of the path correspond to the…
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Verse 106: Transcending the indulgences of samsara a...
Giving up the self-centered mind and generating bodhicitta to accomplish the path to full awakening.
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Appreciating our opportunities
A motivation on appreciating all the causes and conditions for our precious human rebirth, and…
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Living an open-hearted life
A daylong seminar offering perspectives on compassion from Buddhism and psychology from Venerable Thubten Chodron…
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Verse 96: Do not do unto others
How we often go against the golden rule by inflicting the harm we have received…
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Verse 94: Those with right livelihood
How to practice right livelihood as monastics and laypeople.
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