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What Type of Meditation Is Best for You?

By Tania Singer — 2018

One of the most in-depth meditation studies to date shows that different practices have different benefits.

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Cultivating Compassion

How to love yourself and others.

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Why Do We Walk On By?

It’s a spiritual truism that trading places with the less fortunate, psychologically if not literally, can be a powerful motive for doing unto others as you’d have them do unto you.

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Searching for the Heart of Compassion

Call it love, kindness, compassion for all beings—it’s the real elixir, the only one that truly transforms life for ourselves and others.

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Compassion Is Like a Muscle That Gets Stronger with Training

Loving-kindness meditation and compassion training boost empathic resilience.

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Cultivate a Metta Mind: Loving-Kindness Meditation

Loving-kindness meditation (metta) challenges us to send love and compassion to the difficult people in our lives, including ourselves.

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What’s the Difference Between Compassion and Lovingkindness?

Simply put: compassion is lovingkindness in action.

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The Proven Healing Power of Compassion

At its essence, compassion is a gift of the spirit—one with the power to change lives, reduce stress, and heal depression.

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How to Live Compassionately: Forgive Yourself Forgive Others

According to the dictionary, to forgive is to stop feeling angry or resentful toward yourself or others for some perceived offense, flaw, or mistake. Keeping that definition in mind, forgiveness becomes a form of compassion.

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Practicing for Myself?

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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You Are Not My Enemy

Building Bridges for Peace brings together young people from Palestine and Israel.

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Meditation