meditation and compassion

A new book: ‘The Mindful Nurse’

Mary O'Connor, Hearts in Healthcare: Mention compassion and what words spring to mind? Thoughtfulness, decency, kindness, a caring nature and…

January 31, 2017

Keep calm and cultivate compassion

"Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased." — The Dhammapada The weeks…

November 9, 2016

Practicing mindfulness through kindness and compassion

Deniz Ahmadinia, NAMI: Between recent world events and the upcoming presidential election, there has been much discussion around themes of…

November 4, 2016

Bodhipaksa is teaching in Australia, March 2017!

Bodhipaksa is teaching in Australia in 2017! He's been invited by the Sydney Buddhist Centre to lead a week-long retreat…

November 3, 2016

The components of self-compassion

This post is taken from one of the emails from our online course, How to Stop Beating Yourself Up: Learning…

September 30, 2016

Compassion: universally misunderstood

Paul Gilbert OBE, Huffington Post: When people hear the word compassion, they tend to think of kindness. But scientific study…

August 8, 2016

Kindness contagion

Jamil Zaki, Scientific American: Witnessing kindness inspires kindness, causing it to spread like a virus. Conformity gets a bad rap,…

July 27, 2016

The wake-up call that transformed neuroscientist Richard Davidson’s life

Rebecca Shapiro, Huffington Post: Richard Davidson had been studying the brain for more than a decade when he was asked…

May 6, 2016

Mindful leaders are effective leaders

In June, the Director of the National Centre for Strategic Leadership, Nigel Girling, will be running a free webinar raising…

May 3, 2016

Step eight: Helping others to share the benefits we have gained

When the Prince Siddhartha glimpsed the Fourth Sight, a mendicant begging for alms in the streets, he was inspired to…

April 4, 2016