By Erin Clabough — 2020
Research-based ideas to help us practice our most important skill: kindness.
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Dr. Judith Orloff helps us understand the power of empathy so we can utilize and honor it in our lives.
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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If you’re feeling stressed or overwhelmed, don’t cut yourself off from other people, says Kelly McGonigal. Instead, double down on your capacity for connection.
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The 20th-century rabbi and theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel writes often about “radical amazement,” that sense of “wow” about the world, as the root of spirituality.
There is enough room in our spiritual expressions not only for all of the love we feel for our families, but also for the hectic, distracted chaos that so often defines parenting small children — if we are willing to expand our understanding of what religious expression is, and can be.
The scientists hope their long-awaited study on LSD in humans will open the floodgates to further research into psychedelics.
As Buddhist teaching says, suffering has the potential to deepen our compassion and understanding of the human condition. And in so doing, it can lead us to even greater faith, joy and well-being.
We often emphasize the importance of keeping cool in a crisis. But sometimes coolness can give way to detachment and apathy.
Daniel Goleman looks at three types of empathy that leaders, teachers, and parents should have.
Daniel Goleman reports on the Dalai Lama and the dialog between science and Buddhism, especially on how neuroscientists are measuring the effects of meditation.