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 His Holiness the Dalai Lama and compassion
Looking to His Holiness the Dalai Lama as an example for our own lives.
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Incarcerated people 
Sitting with difficulty
An incarcerated person describes the benefit of sitting with discomfort and sharing the suffering of…
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The four aspects of karma
How future lives are affected in both positive and negative ways by our thoughts, words…
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Compassion seeing emptiness
Importance of daily practice and applying the teachings in our lives.
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108 Verses: Verses 8-9
Different ways to view sentient beings in order to cultivate deeper compassion.
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Where is attachment?
Seeing the source of attachment or anger in order for us to eliminate them.
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Afflictions and antidotes
Examining our actions deeply to see what is the affliction that is really causing it.
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Our real enemy
Seeing how our own afflictions are our real enemy and how we should be relentless…
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Guided meditation on Verse 7
How changing our world view can help us move in the right direction.
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Precepts and distorted views
Teachings on wrong beliefs and how that can influence one to act in unrestrained ways.
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