By Lindsay Blakely
LinkedIn’s head of mindfulness and compassion programs says, “Compassion is a strategy for long-term success.”
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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.
Meet eight of Thich Nhat Hanh’s students who are now teachers themselves. In their own unique ways, they’re helping to carry his dharma into the future.
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Compassion research is at a tipping point: Overwhelming evidence suggests compassion is good for our health and good for the world.
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When the body and mind are together, we can establish ourselves in the here and now and get in touch with life and all of its wonders.
The biggest mistake we can make, according to the Buddha, is to discount or minimize our suffering. Why? Because it is the fiery gate through which we must pass to engage the spiritual path.
At a weekend workshop I led, one of the participants, Marian, shared her story about the shame and guilt that had tortured her.
RAIN is a Buddhist mindfulness tool that offers support for working with intense and difficult emotions.