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 Mindfulness and compassion
An introduction to mindfulness and how practicing it can benefit our environment and others around…
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Making friends with ourselves
Discovering our Buddha potential by investigating the source of lasting happiness and cultivating the heart…
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Incarcerated people Joys of taking the bodhisattva vows
An incarcerated person shares the impact of taking the bodhisattva vows on his Dharma practice.
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Meditating on three types of compassion
Importance of persisting through hearing, thinking, and meditating until we see and feel how our…
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How things exist
How understanding things exist dependently provides us freedom to act without afflictions and cultivate compassion.
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108 Verses: Verse 9
Generating compassion by seeing things as not inherently existing and changing how we act with…
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108 Verses: Verse 8
How understanding impermanence helps us view the true nature of self and develop a long…
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Discussion on kindness of others
Discussion on how we focus on self due to many factors and importance of caring…
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Methods to cultivate compassion
Techniques to transform our mind from cherishing self to cherishing others for cultivating compassion.
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Guided meditation on cyclic existence
Developing the aspiration to be free by examining the sufferings we have because of various…
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108 Verses: Verse 7
Importance of deeply looking at our sufferings and developing the motivation to overcome them for…
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108 Verses: Verses 1-6
How great compassion is central to the practice and guides the practitioners through the full…
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