Further commentary on how empathy is important in being compassionate, how to develop empathy and convey it to others.
An Open-Hearted Life: Compassion and empathy review
These are the latest articles with audio. Some of them might be part of a longer series — to find out, browse the individual articles.
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These are the latest articles with audio. Some of them might be part of a longer series — to find out, browse the individual articles.
Guided meditation on compassion
A guided meditation to make the mind more familiar and more habituated to the feeling of compassion.
Fetters and pollutants
Continuing teaching from Chapter 3, covering the fetters and pollutants as described in the Pali Tradition.
Auxiliary afflictions in the Pali tradition
Teaching from Chapter 3, describing the auxiliary afflictions from the Pali tradition.
An Open-Hearted Life: Helping each other feel safe
How to identify when we do or do not feel safe, how to cultivate a sense of safety, and how to offer that to others.
Guided meditation on metta and safety
A guided analytical meditation on loving-kindness or metta, focusing on offering safety to friends, enemies and strangers.
Clusters of afflictions
Teaching from Chapter 3, continuing with the auxiliary afflictions, describing those derived from ignorance and multiple root afflictions.
Auxiliary afflictions
Teaching from Chapter 3, explaining the auxiliary afflictions in the Sanskrit tradition, covering the afflictions derived from anger, attachment and ignorance.
Meditation on loving-kindness
A guided meditation to cultivate a feeling of loving-kindness for ourselves and others, to make the mind more familiar with it and expand it to more beings.
Visualization meditation
Guided visualization meditation to bring out our positive qualities and build confidence in them.