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 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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Seeking enlightenment for the benefit of others
Teaching on equanimity and bodhicitta from a series of talks on The Essence of Refined…
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Judgmental mind, kindness and compassion
Methods to develop love and compassion for others.
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Motivated to not harm
Not harming, verbally or mentally. Questions on how we react to someone's misfortune and on…
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