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Tonglen: In with the Bad, Out with the Good

By Ethan Nichtern — 2014

“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.

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Highlights: Compassion Meditation

This all-day conference will bring leading scientists and educators into dialogue with His Holiness the Dalai Lama to discuss the state of current research on empathy and compassion, the scientific study of meditation practices for cultivating compassion, and the implementation of such meditation...

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The Dalai Lama
2010
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The Exercise That Could Help You Transcend Resentment | Super Soul Sunday | Oprah Winfrey Network

For over 35 years, Buddhist nun and author Pema Chödrön has inspired millions around the world with her teachings on love, kindness, and compassion. Pema believes that beneath anger, confusion and fear is a basic goodness that connects us all.

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Pema Chödrön
2019
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Marc Ian Barasch on "The Compassionate Life"

Marc Ian Barasch on "The Compassionate Life"

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Marc Ian Barasch
2013
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Field Notes on the Compassionate Life: A Search for the Soul of Kindness

Marc Ian Barasch, dubbed "one of today's coolest grown-ups" by Interview magazine, sets out on a journey to the heart of compassion. He discovers its power to change who we are and the society we have become. Compassion, he concludes, is "a prescription for authentic joy.

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Marc Ian Barasch
2024
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The Art and Science of Compassion

Compassion is both innate and a trainable skill that can be cultivated to counter burnout. Based on the scientific principles of neuroplasticity, epigenetics, and inborn basic goodness, Dr.

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2021
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Friendship . . . is born at the moment when one man says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .’

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C. S. Lewis
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The Compassionate Instinct: The Science of Human Goodness

Leading scientists and science writers reflect on the life-changing, perspective-changing, new science of human goodness. Where once science painted humans as self-seeking and warlike, today scientists of many disciplines are uncovering the deep roots of human goodness.

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Dacher Keltner (editor), Jason Marsh (editor), Jeremy Adam Smith (editor)
2010
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We Are Built to Be Kind

Greed is good. War is inevitable. Whether in political theory or popular culture, human nature is often portrayed as selfish and power hungry.

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Dacher Keltner
2014
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The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness

The acclaimed book that helped launch an international compassion movement.

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Marc Ian Barasch
2017
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The Power of Kindness: The Unexpected Benefits of Leading a Compassionate Life (Tenth Anniversary Edition)

When The Power of Kindness first appeared in 2006 it thrilled and challenged readers with one audacious promise: Your acts of generosity and decency are the secret to a fuller, more satisfying life. Kindness is not some squishy virtue, but the very key to your own happiness.

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Piero Ferrucci, The Dalai Lama (preface)
2016
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