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Practicing for Myself?

By Thubten Chodron — 2020

As part of our #MeditationHacks series, a Mahayana Buddhist who is encouraged to practice for the benefit of all sentient being feels like they are only practicing for their own benefit. Venerable Thubten Chodron answers.

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“Our boyfriends, our significant others, and our husbands are supposed to be No. 1. Our worlds are backward.”

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Rhaina Cohen
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Platonic love is a special emotional and spiritual relationship between two people who love and admire one another because of common interests, a spiritual connection, and similar worldviews.

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Love is not found in just one person, but in many people and many aspects of our daily lives.

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Thich Nhat Hanh
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Toward a Worldwide Culture of Love

The practice of love, says bell hooks, is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination. She traces her thirty-year meditation on love, power, and Buddhism, and concludes it is only love that transforms our personal relationships and heals the wounds of oppression.

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bell hooks
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Use these love mantras to open your heart to love!

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Marci Shimoff
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A Rumination on Understanding Love

The Beatles famously tutored us that you “can’t buy me love” and science tells us that you cannot really measure love, only aspects of it. We are told in countless ways that you do not find love, but love finds you.

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Gerald G. Jampolsky, Diane Cirincione
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Connecticut Q&A: Bernie S. Siegel; ‘If You Enjoy Living, You Live Longer’

THE greatest disease of mankind is a lack of love, according to the surgeon and author Bernie S. Siegel, who advocates that the body can be healed through the mind. Dr.

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Open Your Heart Further

Pema Khandro Rinpoche on cultivating the boundless love of a bodhisattva.

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Pema Khandro
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