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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Incarcerated people Kitchen Dharma
A person in prison explores opportunities to practice the Dharma in difficult living and working…
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Taking the ache out of attachment
Looking at how attachment causes problems and real happiness comes from letting go of attachment.
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Life in the hole
An incarcerated person describes the experience of administrative segregation, or "solitary."
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Owning up, but with hope
An incarcerated person talks about the changes he has made in his life since being…
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Eight verses of thought transformation: Verses 4-5
Looking into our hearts, seeing that we all want happiness and we do not want…
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Seeing others as karmic bubbles in order to loosen our rigid conception of them.
View Post Chenrezig retreat discussion: Part 1
Being kind and skillful yet incredibly firm. Being an effective, capable human being, not a…
View Post Introduction to Chenrezig practice
An overview of the practice of Chenrezig, explaining the meaning and purpose of visualization and…
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Curing our self-centeredness
Compassion can serve as a powerful antidote to our self-preoccupation and free us from our…
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Street kids
An incarcerated person's harrowing account of his childhood growing up on the streets, and his…
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Working with People in Prison
Working with people in prison requires a mindset of humility and understanding: an incarcerated person…
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Genuine aspiration and resistance
Kindness for oneself relieves the internal struggle to commit to the Dharma.
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