Compassion is totally natural on some level, and it’s somewhat foreign when it comes to meeting our own pain with tenderness, care, friendliness. Our survival instinct when we feel pain, is to hate it. It’s radical to learn to tolerate it, to have empathy, mercy and compassion towards our own pain.

This Buddhist meditation is based on 'Against The Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries'.

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