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Compassion
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Overcoming Self-Centeredness and Developing Love: Islam
Introduction His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama emphasizes that religious harmony must be based on education, knowing about each other’s traditions. With thorough knowledge, we can acknowledge the common goals we share, while respecting the differences. In fact, from...
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Islam and Buddhism on Overcoming Self-Centeredness and Developing Love
Cherishing Others Gives Meaning to Life
Introduction In our weekend seminar we will focus on refuge. If we look at any of the Buddhist texts, we find that refuge is always described as the most fundamental aspect of the Buddhist path. In fact, it is the entry way into Buddhism. Refuge defines the dividing line...
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Refuge: Putting a Safe Direction & Meaning in Our Lives
Renunciation as the Foundation for Compassion
Definitions of Love, Compassion and Bodhichitta Today I’ve been asked to speak to you about the practice and methods for equalizing and exchanging your attitudes concerning self and others. The subjects of love and compassion, and developing a dedicated heart of bodhichitta,...
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Instructions and Advice on Developing Bodhichitta
Emotional Development of Compassion
Review We were speaking about the initial and intermediate level motivations in the lam-rim process for self-development on the spiritual path. And we saw that on the initial scope, or with the initial scope, we are aiming for better rebirths. We want to avoid worse rebirths...
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Joint Practice of Conventional and Deepest Bodhichittas
Overcoming Self-Centeredness and Developing Love: Buddhism
General Assertions Buddhism does not assert creation or a creator. The mental continuums of all sentient beings have no beginning. “Sentient beings” are living beings that act with intention and experience happiness or unhappiness as a result. Like souls in Islam, however, the...
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Islam and Buddhism on Overcoming Self-Centeredness and Developing Love
Detail about the Perfection of Generosity
Let’s look at the six far-reaching attitudes themselves. The first of these is generosity. The Definition of Generosity Generosity is defined as the willingness to give. It’s an attitude, a state of mind. Shantideva wrote: (V.9) (After all,) if the perfection of giving were...
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Detail about the Six Perfections: Six Paramitas
Recognizing the Various Levels of Happiness
Review I’d like to continue our discussion, but before I begin, there is a piece of advice that a very wise woman once gave me, which I think is relevant here. If you have a group and you want to lead it into a destructive action, like into battle, then you instruct them at...
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The Role of Happiness in Sutra and Tantra
Cherishing Everyone Equally and Developing Compassion
The Need for an Equal Attitude toward Everyone In order to develop compassion it’s necessary to purify and train the mind and the heart. The definition of compassion is the attitude with which you wish everybody to be free from their problems and unhappiness. The attitude with...
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Instructions and Advice on Developing Bodhichitta
Having Proper Friends and Cherishing Spiritual Teachers
Verses 5 through 8 When we recite the refuge prayer, we have the line, “By the force of my giving and so on…” It’s good to know that we can change this line to suit the occasion. So, if we are prostrating, we can say, “By the positive force of prostrating to the Buddhas and...
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Commentary on “37 Bodhisattva Practices” – Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche II
Rational Development of Compassion
Review In our last session we presented the first stages in the process for working ourselves up to developing bodhichitta. We saw that the first type of equanimity that we cultivate is the equanimity that tries to rid ourselves, at least provisionally, of gross disturbing...
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Joint Practice of Conventional and Deepest Bodhichittas
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