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 When a dear one has a medical emergency
In a time of uncertainty, letting our minds relax can be of benefit to ourselves…
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Compassionate communication
How to bring compassion to our communication and how to look at situations objectively without…
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Venerable Sangye Khadro Meditation on compassion for our enemies
A guided analytical meditation to cultivate compassion for those we have difficulty with or who…
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21st-century Buddhists
Ethical conduct and compassion are the keys to happiness for ourselves and for all sentient…
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Compassion and empathy review
Further commentary on how empathy is important in being compassionate, how to develop empathy and…
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Guided meditation on compassion
A guided meditation to make the mind more familiar and more habituated to the feeling…
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Medicine Buddha’s unshakable resolves 7-12
The second part of the explanation the Medicine Buddha’s unshakable resolves. Resolves 7 through 12…
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“Letter to a Friend”: Verse 40 review
How we can cultivate the four immeasurables of love, compassion, joy, and equanimity, and how…
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Medicine Buddha’s unshakable resolves 1-6
Part one of the explanation of the Medicine Buddha’s unshakable resolves—resolves 1 though 6. Also…
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Helping each other feel safe
How to identify when we do or do not feel safe, how to cultivate a…
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Venerable Thubten Semkye Meditation on metta and safety
A guided analytical meditation on loving-kindness or metta, focusing on offering safety to friends, enemies…
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“Courageous Compassion”: Reading and com...
How to develop true compassion in order to benefit all sentient beings, no self-centered strings…
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