By Noah Levine — 2016
Noah Levine on what forgiveness has meant in his own life.
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A recent gathering of compassion researchers reveals new discoveries about how and why humans help each other.
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Loving-kindness meditation and compassion training boost empathic resilience.
How to love yourself and others.
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Given the state of things, especially in recent weeks, it appears that WE must be the heroes, the spiritual warriors, and bodhisattvas that we seek and that the world needs.
“Accepting and sending out” is a powerful meditation to develop compassion—for ourselves and others. Ethan Nichtern teaches us how to do it in formal practice and on the spot whenever suffering arises.
Our most negative encounters can sometimes offer us great spiritual guidance.
We call people who harm us enemies, but is that who they really are? When we see the person behind the label, say Buddhist teachers Sharon Salzberg and Robert Thurman, everyone benefits.
In 1989, at one of the first international Buddhist teacher meetings, Western teachers brought up the enormous problem of unworthiness and self-criticism, shame and self-hatred that frequently they arise in Western students’ practice.
My hope is that the G.R.A.C.E. model will help you to actualize compassion in your own life and that the impact of this will ripple out to benefit the people with whom you interact each day as well as countless others.
At a weekend workshop I led, one of the participants, Marian, shared her story about the shame and guilt that had tortured her.