Compassion Meditation Opening Our Heart, Karuna Practice

This is a recording from a retreat so there are background noises. This is a guided practice on compassion beginning with awareness on offering compassion to ourselves. We then move through the traditional format, offering compassion towards a benefactor, a stranger, a friend or family member, someone we may have a resentment towards and then the wider world. Compassion begins with opening our hearts towards ourselves, it is not pity, but the experience when kindness bumps up against suffering.