Buddhist inspired resources for physicians and other health care professionals.
Posted in Compassion, The Bodhisattva Ideal on Sep 20th, 2008
Pema Chodron’s No Time To Lose, A Timely Guide To The Way of The Bodhisattva. From her introduction: “I regard this text as an instruction manual for extending ourselves to others, a guidebook for compassionate action. We can read it to free ourselves from crippling habits and confusion. We can read it to encourage our [...]
Posted in Compassion, The Bodhisattva Ideal on Sep 20th, 2008
from Pema Chodron’s book No Time To Lose, A Timely Guide to The Way of The Bodhisattva, bodhicitta “is often translated as ‘awakened heart,’ and refers to an intense desire to alleviate suffering… We start close to home with the wish to help those we know and love, but the underlying inspiration is global and [...]
Posted in Compassion on Sep 20th, 2008
by Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, with David R. Shlim, M.D. “The purpose of this book is to investigate how to combine compassion with the art of healing.”
Posted in Compassion, Tonglen on Sep 20th, 2008
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Posted in Compassion on Sep 20th, 2008
From Joseph Goldstein’s One Dharma, The Emerging Western Buddhism, “… bodhicitta (the term used in the Tibetan tradition) is the practice of compassion and compassionate action. Compassion is the strong and deep feeling that wants to alleviate the suffering of beings, and it arises when we allow ourselves to come close to suffering, both our [...]
Posted in Compassion, The Bodhisattva Ideal on Sep 20th, 2008
“For all those ailing in the world,
Until their every sickness has been healed,
May I myself become for them
The doctor, nurse, medicine itself.”
from Shantideva’s The Way of the Bodhisattva (The Bodhicaryavatara), ch. 3, v. 8