When we stop plunging ahead in our activities long enough to just look, we become gentle.
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CLEAR ALL
Call it love, kindness, compassion for all beings—it’s the real elixir, the only one that truly transforms life for ourselves and others.
Marc Ian Barasch, dubbed "one of today's coolest grown-ups" by Interview magazine, sets out on a journey to the heart of compassion. He discovers its power to change who we are and the society we have become. Compassion, he concludes, is "a prescription for authentic joy.
But one of the hallmarks of emotional maturity is to recognize the validity of multiple realities and to understand that people think, feel, and react differently. Often we behave as if ‘closeness’ means ‘sameness.’
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The acclaimed book that helped launch an international compassion movement.
How to love yourself and others.
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Lovingkindness—acting with selfless compassion toward others—is a widely recognized virtue that is honored across world religions.
Loving-kindness meditation (metta) challenges us to send love and compassion to the difficult people in our lives, including ourselves.
Can we cultivate well-being in the same way that we can train our bodies to be healthier and more resilient? If so, how might we use the practice of meditation to experience equanimity, to open our hearts fully to others, and to cultivate insight and wisdom? In this workshop, two world-renowned...
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The fifty-nine provocative slogans presented here—each with a commentary by the Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa—have been used by Tibetan Buddhists for eight centuries to help meditation students remember and focus on important principles and practices of mind training.
A friend criticizes you. You grow impatient with someone you’re trying to help. A cell phone user annoys you on a train.