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 Disappointment and delight—the eight worldly c...
Confronting the eight worldly concerns will transform our attachments and emotional afflictions into happiness and…
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The determination to be free
Understanding the meaning of renunciation, what we are wishing to be free from, the effects…
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Ethical conduct and benefitting sentient beings
Discussion of the concept of far-reaching ethical conduct. Keeping precepts and what to do if…
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Khensur Wangdak Rinpoche - Nov 26, 2007
Khensur Wangdak Rinpoche Kindness and the benefits of engaged bodhicitta
An analysis to see that all sentient beings have been one's mothers. Reasons to generate…
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Khensur Wangdak Rinpoche
- Nov 23, 2007
Bodhicitta: Gateway to the Mahayana path
Tracing the source of beginningless suffering and the antidote. Importance of compassion in the beginning,…
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Creating the causes for bodhicitta in future rebirths
Four harmful factors that must be avoided and four beneficial factors to engage in to…
View Post The meditation on taking and giving
How visualizing taking on the suffering of others and giving them our happiness can be…
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Incarcerated people A test of my bodhisattva vows
Keeping oneself free of violence by remembering the vows and showing compassion.
View Post The advantages of cherishing others
How to generate bodhicitta by changing in one's mind who is important and cherished: the…
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Buddha nature and precious human life
Seeing our potential and the conducive circumstances we have to actualize it.
View Post The seven-point cause-and-effect practice
Practices that develop the bodhicitta aspiration to attain buddhahood in order to benefit all sentient…
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Opening up to love
Being stuck in a selfish lifestyle centered on "me" keeps us from realizing the interdependence…
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