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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Chapter 3: Verses 1-3
Developing love and compassion in a reasonable way. The importance of purification and creating of…
View PostWisdom and compassion
Seeing the kindness of sentient beings and understanding that our enlightenment depends on them.
View PostDedication from “Engaging in the Deeds of Bodh...
Dedicating for the well-being and happiness of all sentient beings, with an inspiring final verse.
View PostThe internal tiger: anger and fear
Having struck out in anger many times, an incarcerated person shares responding to his fear…
View PostSharing challenges of practice
Questions from retreatants on dealing with distraction and habitual reactions. Working with dreams in a…
View PostFortitude of enduring suffering
Continuing with the explanation of the practice of non-retaliation, and the second type of fortitude…
View PostDisappointment and delight—the eight worldly c...
Confronting the eight worldly concerns will transform our attachments and emotional afflictions into happiness and…
View PostThe determination to be free
Understanding the meaning of renunciation, what we are wishing to be free from, the effects…
View PostEthical conduct and benefitting sentient beings
Discussion of the concept of far-reaching ethical conduct. Keeping precepts and what to do if…
View PostKindness and the benefits of engaged bodhicitta
An analysis to see that all sentient beings have been one's mothers. Reasons to generate…
View PostBodhicitta: Gateway to the Mahayana path
Tracing the source of beginningless suffering and the antidote. Importance of compassion in the beginning,…
View PostCreating 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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