Compassion is the movement of the heart in recognizing our own or someone else’s vulnerability. We move towards that person, to see if we can be if help.

In day to day life that might look like simply recognizing our own humanity, or the humanity of someone else.

I was teaching recently and a woman told me, after a sitting, ” All week long my boss has been a tyrant — unfair, judgmental, in a very uncharacteristic way. It’s only been here, meditating, that it occurred to me to think, ‘ She might have something going on in her life that is provoking this.'”

Here’s the first post of this series, Hearthstones.

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As much as i understand that compassion is a important virtue not just for being a better you, but also to make sense of things we cant accept and have to deal, unfortunately without a choice. And in those moments, if we can bring about some compassion, within, we struggle a little less.

I like to learn more about compassion, not just as a virtue, but as a science that works (such as mindfulness)

Here is a talk that combines both and Paul Gilbert makes it humorous