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Loving Kindness

How to cultivate compassion to become wisely compassionate

Compassion is both nature and nurture. We are all born with some degree of compassion, which should be tempered with reason, and nurtured like a seedling so it won't wither. And it will grow if we practice by looking inward, and reducing our vexations.

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Introduction to the Five Aggregates "Insight into the five aggregates as being empty of inherent nature" is one of the Avalokitesvara's methods. Five aggregates are the five factors ...

09 Contemplating the Five Aggregates as Empty in Nature (IV) --- Volition

Volition, in one sense, means the constant change and shifting of our thoughts in time. It marks the Buddhist idea of impermanence and teaches us not to become attached.