By Lindsay Blakely
LinkedIn’s head of mindfulness and compassion programs says, “Compassion is a strategy for long-term success.”
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CLEAR ALL
Our culture has taught us that we do not have the privilege of being vulnerable like other communities.
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How do shame and compassion relate to one another?
Many equate self-discipline with living a good, moral life, which ends up creating a lot of shame when we fail. There’s a better way to build lasting, solid self-discipline in your life.
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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.