By Sister Chan Khong — 2019
Sister Chan Khong remembers the suffering of the years of war in Vietnam and what they taught her about human nature.
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Simply put: compassion is lovingkindness in action.
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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Loving-kindness meditation and compassion training boost empathic resilience.
How to love yourself and others.
Loving-kindness is defined in English dictionaries as a feeling of benevolent affection, but in Buddhism, loving-kindness (in Pali, Metta; in Sanskrit, Maitri) is thought of as a mental state or attitude, cultivated and maintained by practice.
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In this teaching from 2004, Joseph Goldstein explains how three principles of meditation can be applied to the world’s conflicts.