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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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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Venerable Thubten Chodron Creating the causes for bodhicitta in future rebirths
Four harmful factors that must be avoided and four beneficial factors to engage in to…
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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.
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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.
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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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Inside-out practice
An incarcerated person narrates practicing inside the prison to practicing outside and compares that to…
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The four noble truths
A look at the unsatisfactory nature of cyclic existence and how to practice the noble…
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