Cultivating compassion : a Buddhist perspective /
"According to Buddhist thought, compassion is society, and esteemed Buddhist scholar-practitioner Jeffrey Hopkins knows that by learning to live from a more compassionate viewpoint, we can create a better life not only for ourselves but for others. Cultivating Compassion is his guide to tapping...
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New York :
Broadway Books,
©2001.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Mediation
- Step. 1. Equanimity. 2. Equality. 3. Motivation. 4. Awareness of Death. 5. Facing Horror. 6. Lifetimes
- Step. 2. Recognizing Friends. 7. Everyone as a Friend. 8. Making Progress. 9. Valuing Others
- Step. 3. Reflecting on Others' Kindness. 10. Ways Others Are Kind
- Step. 4. Returning Kindness. 11. Reciprocating on Your Own Terms
- Step. 5. Love. 12. Mediating Love
- Step. 6. Compassion. 13. Overview of Compassion. 14. Compassion Seeing Suffering Beings. 15. Compassion Seeing Evanescent Beings. 16. Compassion Seeing Empty Beings. 17. Compassion and Wisdom Combined.