From Buddhist Pema Chodron: Compassion Takes Courage
(The June 7 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace)
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(The June 7 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace)
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?hl=en&shva=1#search/pema/13f142ff61407072
COMPASSION TAKES COURAGE
Just as nurturing our ability to love is a way of awakening bodhichitta, so also is nurturing our ability to feel compassion. Compassion, however, is more emotionally challenging than loving-kindness because it involves the willingness to feel pain. It definitely requires the training of a warrior.
When we practice generating compassion, we can expect to experience our fear of pain. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allow ourselves to move gently toward what scares us. The trick to doing this is to stay with emotional distress without tightening into aversion, to let fear soften us rather than harden into resistance.
When we practice generating compassion, we can expect to experience our fear of pain. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allow ourselves to move gently toward what scares us. The trick to doing this is to stay with emotional distress without tightening into aversion, to let fear soften us rather than harden into resistance.
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