Chogyam Trungpa borrowed from Gurdjieff the very useful notion of "idiot compassion." Gurdjieff, a rather fascinating spiritual teacher of the…
So far I've just been advising people to do the metta bhavana (development of lovingkindness) practice while bearing in mind…
In cultivating compassion we're responding, with kindness, to the suffering we encounter in life -- especially others' suffering. And the…
Yesterday I wrote about the complexities of the "near enemy" of compassion, which is the grief that arises from attachment.…
The other week I was walking to work after it had rained hard all night. The sidewalks and roads were…
I've had more people asking me about the "near enemy" of compassion. So here goes... The "near enemy" is, by…
Talking about cultivating or developing compassion can have the unfortunate side-effect of giving us the idea that compassion is something…
There are four related dimensions of lovingkindness, together called the "divine abidings," or Brahmaviharas. These four are (1) lovingkindness itself, (2) compassion,…
The Buddha is recorded as having said: For one who mindfully develops Boundless loving-kindness Seeing the destruction of clinging, The…
Yesterday I wrote about how, in the fifth stage of the development of lovingkindness practice where we're cultivating metta for…