Compassion For Yourself Creates Inner Peace

Ignore when you hear this phrase: ‘Forgive and Forget’. I do not think that forgetting is about forgiveness; remembering, from time to time, what you experienced, can be turned into a lesson. The lesson is a way of learning if you are in school; life is your current...

Empathy or Compassion – You Get to Choose

Empathy is the capacity to experience the suffering of others. Empathic people often feel the pain of others, sometimes to their detriment. Empathy seems to be the big word in the past year or so, although longer for some. Compassion is about feeling for not feeling...

Attain Inner and Outer Peace with Compassion

Right now, it is all about compassion, for yourself and everyone else. In Buddhism, compassion is about not wanting the other person to suffer. However, you have to look at yourself first. “According to Buddhism, compassion is an aspiration, a state of mind, wanting...

Do the Right Thing Everyday

This past week I went to Costco to pick up a pair of prescription sunglasses; my life is easier with Costco prescription glasses – cheaper too.  This was my second visit to a Costco store in the past six months. I asked the optician who waited on me how he was...

Be Extra Kind to Someone Today

“In the Buddhist tradition, compassion and love are seen as two aspects of the same thing: Compassion is the wish for another being to be free from suffering; love is wanting them to have happiness.” – The Dalai Lama. Today is a good day to be...