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 Offering our help to all beings
Doing the taking and giving meditation to purify past actions.
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Dealing with betrayal of trust
How to work with attachment and respond to harm from others with compassion.
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Benefits of meditating on the the 12 links
Commencing the teaching from Chapter 9 and describing the benefits of meditating on the 12…
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Venerable Sangye Khadro Mother sentient beings
Five more verses from Nagarjuna's "Tale of a Wish-Fulfilling Dream" and a teaching about the…
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The kindness of others
The benefits of loving-kindness, the kindness of others, and verses from Nagarjuna’s “Tale of a…
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Overcoming obstacles to kindness
What obstacles get in the way of our being kind to others? How we can…
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Monk chat: Questions about how to practice
Short videos covering questions about cultivating compassion and how to relate to a spiritual teacher.
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Cheri Langston What a wonderful world!
A student reflects on how pain and suffering can be transformed into "little bits of…
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Compassion + Technology
How obsession with the latest technology hinders us from thinking about its negative impacts on…
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Nonviolence and compassion
A student responds to Venerable Thubten Chodron's talk on the causes and effects of war.
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