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Expanding Compassion Beyond Our Inner Circle: A Seven-Step Exercise

June 18, 2017 by Matthew Leave a Comment

Expanding Compassion Beyond Our Inner Circle: A Seven-Step Exercise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBZyRlxVd-E   In this TedTalk, Robert Thurman shows us how to expand our compassion. "It’s hard to always show compassion — even to the people we love, but Robert Thurman asks that we develop compassion for our enemies. He prescribes a seven-step meditation exercise to extend compassion beyond our inner circle." … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Robert Thurman, Spirit, Video Tagged With: Buddhism, compassion, meditation, Robert Thurman

Pema Chodron on Overcoming Anger

June 15, 2017 by steve stein Leave a Comment

Pema Chodron on Overcoming Anger

  Fear, anger, and hatred, while negative emotions, exist in order to teach us something. When we become aware of our various emotions, we learn why we feel the way we do. When we learn why we feel the way we do, our emotions become productive, rather than destructive forces. Anger usually appears when we fail to set healthy boundaries. If we don't recognize what our anger is trying to tell us (the wisdom of our anger), it soon descends into violence, hatred, fear, and destruction. In the lecture "Don't Bite The Hook," Tibetan-American Buddhist Pema Chodron teaches us how we can transform anger into compassion and love. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Excerpts, Featured Articles, Featured MP3 of the Week, Mindfulness, Pema Chödrön, Shambhala, Spirit, Weekly Wisdom Tagged With: anger, compassion, don't bite the hook, emotion, pema chodron, shambhala

From Disconnection to Connection (featuring Brother David)

May 11, 2017 by Matthew Leave a Comment

From Disconnection to Connection (featuring Brother David)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjxKemXvzX8 Brother David discussing disconnection and connection at Wisdom 2.0. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Brother David, Spirit, Video Tagged With: brother david, compassion, connection, gratitude, spirituality

Worrying Less in 5 Steps

March 17, 2017 by Matthew Leave a Comment

Worrying Less in 5 Steps

We’ve all heard the saying that in life there are ups and down and there is the classic eastern saying that life is filled with 10,000 joys and 10,000 sorrows. With this there’s the wisdom that all things come and go, but the brain has a funny way of amplifying the sorrows and minimizing the joys for good evolutionary reasons. Whenever the brain perceived something as “bad” it starts to worry about it. But often times there is no real utility to the worry, it only serves to dig us into a deeper hole and blinds us to the joys that might be waiting around the corner. Here is one of the best cartoons I’ve found that says it like it is: Illustration by Charles Schulz There really is no … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Elisha Goldstein, Featured Articles, Mindfulness Tagged With: anxiety, compassion, mindfulness, worry

Herman Hesse; Siddhartha Excerpt

March 1, 2017 by steve stein Leave a Comment

Enjoy this excerpt from this new translation of the beloved Herman Hesse classic Siddhartha.  Siddhartha chronicles the spiritual evolution of a man living during the time of the Buddha.  The following chapter is titled "Awaken".   As Siddhartha left the grove, leaving the Buddha, the perfect one behind, leaving Govinda behind, he had the feeling he was also leaving behind in the grove his life, up to that time, and separating himself from it. He pondered this feeling, which completely filled him, as he slowly made his way. He pondered deeply, sinking down in to the depths of this feeling as through deep water until he reached the point where the causes lie, for to know the causes, so it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured MP3 of the Week, Shambhala Tagged With: Buddhism, compassion, meditation, Psychology, shambhala

Radical Open Mindedness

October 19, 2016 by Matthew Leave a Comment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de6_ndhL40s This Nalanda Institute video features Dr. Joe Loizzo, Founder & Director of Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science. This brief video unpacks the way the dreamlike art of compassion and the wisdom of radical open mindedness born of contemplative self-analysis together provide the raw material for a more enlightened, proactive self, ready, willing and able to meet the demands of a life of infinite information and interdependence. Sign up for our newsletter and receive WisdomFeed's Mindfulness Welcome Pack courtesy of Better Listen! … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Joe Loizzo, Psychology, Spirit, Video Tagged With: compassion, Joe Loizzo, wisdom

Healing Oneself Healing the World with Thich Nhat Hanh and Friends

September 26, 2016 by Matthew Leave a Comment

Healing Oneself Healing the World with Thich Nhat Hanh and Friends

Healing Oneself and Healing the World featuring Thich Nhat Hanh and practice with Br. Phap Dung and Sr. Dang Nghiem September 24, 2013. 120-minute dharma talk given by Thich Nhat Hanh from Magnolia Grove Monastery in Batesville, Mississippi during the 2013 Nourishing Great Togetherness teaching tour. This is the orientation for the 6-day retreat with the theme Healing Ourselves, Healing the World. Creating a healing environment in our physical and spiritual spaces. How do we produce a thought that is filled with understanding and compassion? Building a sangha or a practice center is one method. In our tradition, we begin by looking at our suffering. We can then recognize the suffering in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured MP3 of the Week, Mindfulness, Thich Nhat Hahn Tagged With: Buddhism, compassion, featured title, mindfulness, thich nhat Hanh

Thich Nhat Hanh: Compassion and Suffering

September 21, 2016 by Matthew Leave a Comment

Thich Nhat Hanh: Compassion and Suffering

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG3PEoJpYBs Thich Nhat Hahn in an interview from Whispers on the Wind on suffering and compassion. Whisper on the Wind is a worldwide documentary about the big questions of life. Sign up for our newsletter and receive WisdomFeed's Mindfulness Welcome Pack courtesy of Better Listen! … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Spirit, Thich Nhat Hahn, Video Tagged With: compassion, suffering, thich nhat Hanh, video

The 5 Question Compassion Test

September 19, 2016 by Matthew 1 Comment

The 5 Question Compassion Test

What type of compassion do you have? Sign up for our newsletter and receive WisdomFeed's Mindfulness Welcome Pack courtesy of Better Listen! … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Articles, Mindfulness, Play Tagged With: compassion, quiz

The Neuroscience of Compassion

September 13, 2016 by Matthew Leave a Comment

The Neuroscience of Compassion

“The best way to activate positive-emotion circuits in the brain is through generosity,” Davidson, who founded the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at University of Wisconsin, Madison, said in a talk at the Aspen Ideas Festival. “This is really a kind of exciting neuroscientific finding because there are pearls of wisdom in the contemplative tradition—the Dalai Lama frequently talks about this—that the best way for us to be happy is to be generous to others. And in fact the scientific evidence is in many ways bearing this out, and showing that there are systematic changes in the brain that are associated with acts of generosity.” Running Time: 1:24 Purchase this audiobook … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Audio Preview, Psychology, Richard Davidson, Spirit Tagged With: Audio Preview, compassion, dalai lama, neuroscience, richard davidson

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