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. <a href='https://www.skepticspath.org/podcast/28-what-is-compassion/'>Episode 28. What Is Compassion?</a>If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life,<a href='https://www.trainahappymind.org/'> join our weekly meditation community</a> with Scott.

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. Episode 28. What Is Compassion? If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

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. <a href="https://www.skepticspath.org/podcast/28-what-is-compassion/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Episode 28. What Is Compassion?</a>If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life,<a href="https://www.trainahappymind.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer"> join our weekly meditation community</a> with Scott.

What is Compassion? #28 [rebroadcast]

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The How to Train a Happy Mind podcast brings meditation to modern people hungry for happy, meaningful lives. Each week, host Scott Snibbe and his guests share powerful mind training techniques that go beyond mindfulness to harness our intelligence, emotions, and imagination. Learn how to build a happy mind, fulfilling relationships, and a better world through a secular approach to meditation that is based on modern science and psychology, yet grounded in the authentic thousand-year old Tibetan Buddhist tradition of analytical meditation. How to Train a Happy Mind is a project of the nonprofit Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment. Our host, Scott Snibbe, is a twenty-five-year student of Tibetan Buddhism whose teachers include His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Snibbe is the author of the popular How to Train a Happy Mind book, and leads meditation classes and retreats worldwide infused with science, humor, and the realities of the modern world.

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