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 Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 101-104
Eliminating our own self-centeredness and our own self grasping ignorance and thereby developing the compassion…
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Incarcerated people 
Squeezing George Washington so tight he cries
A person in prison discusses his mistaken notion that renunciation means not caring.
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Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 99-104
How we can grow in our Dharma practice through these courageous mind-training practices. Thinking about…
View Post Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 93-98
Taking on suffering of others without fear and having no doubt that self-cherishing is the…
View Post Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 81-92
Dharma friends, choosing teachers, and keeping Dharma practice alive.
View Post Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 50-62
Disadvantages and effects of self-grasping ignorance, self-cherishing and having insincere motivations when we act.
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Creating problems
Reflections by a person in prison about his recent treatment of others, contrasting it with…
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Practical guidelines for good living
How and why we take refuge and an elaboration on the specific and common guidelines…
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama Practical peace and contentment
His Holiness the Dalai Lama's foreword to 'Taming the Mind,' a "practical application of the…
View Post Antidotes to the habit of complaining
Advice on taming bad habits and cultivating good, such as nurturing antidotes to our tendency…
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Jewels of the Dharma
The nuns in service of the Dharma inspire compassion and loving-kindness to take root in…
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