By Megan Anderson — 2019
TIO “sat” down via Zoom with renowned spiritual theologian Matthew Fox . . . and Lama Tsomo . . . to talk about compassion and the role it plays in our world today.
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CLEAR ALL
How do shame and compassion relate to one another?
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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.
At a weekend workshop I led, one of the participants, Marian, shared her story about the shame and guilt that had tortured her.