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 Sangye Khadro A zillion reasons to love sentient beings
Exploring the advantages of loving-kindness and how to develop this beneficial quality.
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The great scope of the lamrim
Bodhicitta, the wisdom realizing emptiness and a surprise birthday celebration!
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The middle scope of the lamrim
Renunciation, the three higher trainings and a preview of the great scope of the lamrim…
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Advice for monastics
Explaning the section of advice for Monastics, teaching from Chapter 5.
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Things depend on other things
Interview on how the teachings on interdependence apply to daily life.
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Taking and giving—tonglen
Explanation of exchanging self and others and taking and giving.
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Cherishing others
The benefits of cherishing others, and what it means to exchange oneself and others.
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Disadvantages of self-centeredness
How the self-centered attitude is the cause of problems in our life.
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Different methods for equalizing and exchanging self...
Explanation of the meditations to develop bodhicitta.
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Equalizing and exchanging oneself and others
Developing bodhicitta through exchanging self and others.
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Facing difficulties with joy and equanimity
We can have joy and equanimity even in the face of challenges.
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Living in the modern world with love and compassion
Compassion has the aspect of allaying suffering as it's characteristic.
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