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 Looking at death and dealing with loss
How remembering death can make life meaningful, causing us to think about the choices we…
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Challenges to forgiveness
We can generate forgiveness and compassion for those who harm ourselves or others. Forgiveness does…
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How to grow a monastic
A personal account of the 19th Annual Western Buddhist Monastic Gathering.
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Dependent arising and realism
Teaching the method side of the path, reflecting on how we are completely dependent on…
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Bhikshuni Thubten Jampa Towards a century of compassion and peace
Venerable Thubten Jampa shares His Holiness' thoughts on how integrating compassion into our daily lives…
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Universal responsibility and the global environment
Venerable Thubten Jampa shares on the panels and talks by His Holiness the Dalai Lama…
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Venerable Thubten Jigme Calming the mind, simplifying our lives
How to work with our minds, looking internally at the causes of problems, and decrease…
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The silver lining
Finding hope in positive developments that have emerged in America since the Boston Marathon tragedy.
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The golden rule
In the wake of the Boston Marathon tragedy, interfaith perspectives on turning away from hate…
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Defining love and happiness
Examining how we define "love" and "happiness," why we like friends, have apathy for strangers,…
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Compassion and kindness in the face of terrorism
A three-part series of talks on cultivating compassion, kindness and forgiveness for perpetrators in the…
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The poisons of anger, attachment and ignorance
How the three poisons affect our relationships and push us to do many harmful actions.…
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