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Expanding our Compassion

Name: Expanding our Compassion
Uploaded: 2020-10-04T17:43:41.000Z
Duration: 16 min 24 s
Channel: How to Train a Happy Mind
Description: A 15-minute guided meditation on compassion: the wish to take away others’ suffering. Compassion is starting to rival mindfulness as the next most popular up-and-coming form of secular meditation. But what is compassion? Compassion, from the Buddhist perspective, is not just empathizing with others’ suffering, but actively wishing to take it away.

by How to Train a Happy Mind

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guided

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Meditation

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Everyone

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A 15-minute guided meditation on compassion: the wish to take away others’ suffering. Compassion is starting to rival mindfulness as the next most popular up-and-coming form of secular meditation. But what is compassion? Compassion, from the Buddhist perspective, is not just empathizing with others’ suffering, but actively wishing to take it away.

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