The key to the treasure of unconditional compassion, says Aura Glaser, is the three-step practice of equanimity.
Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche explains how obstacles can be brought to the spiritual path and become opportunities for awakening.
Marc Ian Barasch searches our society for compassion in action, compassionate people, and ways to find the compassion inside himself.
The reason it’s so hard to make decisions, says Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, is that we’re confused about what we really want. If we’re motivated by the happiness and welfare of others, we’ll have no trouble making clear and wise decisions.
Photo by tsoilanc1.As well as its famed doctrines of emptiness and nonattachment, the heart of Buddhism is the love and compassion we feel toward all beings.
There is a trio of activities that lead to enlightenment.
“I’m certain that compassion is the only possible response to pain, yet I still sometimes become resentful when I or someone else is suffering.”
Fred Kofman, a leading organizational theorist, argues that the essential spirit of business is not greed and self-advancement but compassion, even love.
Compassion. Photo by Aaron Alexander.“Compassion is not a path that is taken because it leads somewhere else. Everything that we encounter, all that we experience, is this path.”
Judith Simmer-Brown on the role of desire in Buddhist Tantra: “The intensity of desire can only be liberated by desire itself.”
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