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 Chodron Cultivating positive habits
Learning how to change our habitual reactions and mental states and how to interact with…
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Encouraging ethical behavior
How to encourage ethical behavior in both children and adults.
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Raising a moral child
How to encourage morality in children and adults, and how to offer both praise and…
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What suffering does
While people seek happiness, many feel shaped through suffering. Suffering brings us out of ourselves…
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Diana - Apr 14, 2014
Diana Benefits of the retreat from afar
A student shares about the joy and enthusiasm of a group of practitioners doing the…
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Transforming suffering
Looking at our reactions when we face adversity, and how we can transform pain and…
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Eight verses of mind training: Verse 2
Discussion on forgiving and apologizing. Seeing that cherishing others is the source of happiness and…
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Living with loss
How to work with the emotions when we lose the things we are attached to.…
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Scott Lawley
- Mar 1, 2014
I saw a worm today
Scott transforms an ordinary event into a bodhisattva practice.
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Heather Mack Duchscher Dropping our garbage
Shares insights from working with pain, illness, and purification during Vajrasattva retreat.
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Stories about Lama Yeshe
Shares some of the pithy teachings by Lama Yeshe and ties them in with a…
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Venerable Thubten Semkye Shifting from the self-centered thought to cherishin...
The equalizing and exchanging self with others method of generating bodhicitta, and examining how the…
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