By Rolf Gates
Once we learn to forgive ourselves for being human, we are able to accept the humanity of others.
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CLEAR ALL
Pema Khandro Rinpoche on cultivating the boundless love of a bodhisattva.
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.
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In order to flower, self-compassion depends on honest, direct contact with our own vulnerability. Compassion fully blossoms when we actively offer care to ourselves.