Giving And Receiving

In the classic teachings of Buddhist Mind Training, we train our minds to be more empathic, through mindful awareness and the cultivation of compassion and resilience. What we are doing here together in practice is really moving against the stream of the ordinary ways in which people do when confronted with something difficult or unpleasant.
Instead of denying the difficulty or avoiding it; when difficulty arises the practice is to turn toward it rather than away from it.