Compassion

With bodhichitta, we are aimed at our own, individual future state of enlightenment in order to best help others, and, with the use of our own positive qualities – love, compassion, consideration – we bring benefit and more happiness to ourselves and to others along the way.

Renunciation is the determination to be free of our sufferings and their causes. When focused on others, with the determination that they be free, this is compassion.

Using traditional examples, Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche explains the graded path, emphasizing the importance of appreciating and taking full advantage of our precious human life.

How to build up a feeling of love and extend it to all others.

Message of His Holiness the Dalai Lama requested by “The Call to Unite”

On this day of Vesak, commemorating the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and passing away, we remember his universal message of compassion, non-violence and interdependence – more relevant than ever in these challenging times.

Nurturing the basic human values, assisted with the use of intelligence, is the way to lead a meaningful life.

Imagine suffering like others are, to develop compassion for them to be free.

The Dalai Lama believes it is wrong to characterize a whole religion as bad because of the actions of a few mischievous people. This is true regarding Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism alike.

Buddhist methods for developing compassion, the beneficial state of mind wishing for others to be free of their suffering.