Lion's Roar

2 LOVE

THE TRADITIONAL HEART practices of generosity, loving-kindness, and tonglen are powerful medicines for the unwholesome effects of the three poisons.

Greed, or craving, is rooted in the delusion of scarcity, and so it can be remedied with the practice of generosity, or . Sharing internal or external resources with others moves us enough, greed and craving naturally subside.

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