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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Khenpo Yeshi Lhundup Outshining hearers and solitary realizers
Explanation of how bodhisattva superiors outshine hearers and solitary realizers by way of their qualities.
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Venerable Sangye Khadro Review session: Bodhisattva paths and grounds
How the continuum of wisdom is divided into ten bodhisattva grounds.
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First bodhisattva ground: The Very Joyful
Commentary on the grounds of bodhisattva superiors and beginning the commentary on the first ground,…
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Review session: Compassion, impermanence and emptiness
Questons and answers When meditating on compassion, what is the object of meditation? Is the…
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Compassion conjoined with wisdom
Continued commentary on the three types of compassion and beginning the section on ways of…
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Review session: Three types of compassion
A review session on the three types of compassion, including the analogy of the bucket…
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Three types of compassion
Explanation of Chandrakirti's verses identifying three types of compassion.
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Meditation on working with anger and developing comp...
A guided meditation to subdue anger and cultivate compassion by transforming how we view those…
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The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas: Verses 16-20
Commentary on verses for training the mind to transform how adverse circumstances are viewed and…
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The four immeasurables
The four immeasurables—love, compassion, joy and equanimity—present a way to relate to other living beings…
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Meditation on cultivating the four immeasurable thou...
The more we familiarize ourselves with the four immeasurable thoughts—love, compassion, joy and equanimity—the more…
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Keeping the promise of bodhicitta
Discussing Verses 11-16 on the importance of making ourselves into trustworthy people: in general and…
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