The habits of happiness | Matthieu Ricard - YouTube
Minute 13:00, antidote and alternatives to obsession, to looking outwardly, to being hooked by triggers...
'Turn around the light to look within, then just return'....
lookng at anger, and it will vanish like frost in sunlight. ....as opposed to nurturing the anger by staring at the object of your anger.
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Steady Approach to Compassion
A Steady Approach to Compassion
As we strive to develop compassion for ourselves, it’s important to avoid making “letting go of desire” or “developing compassion for yourself” into new objects of compulsive desire. Becoming obsessive about quickly seeing big results from our efforts is a sign that deluded desire rather than compassion is driving our efforts. Real progress derives from honest introspection, and we cannot analyze our minds carefully when we’re hurried. Transforming our hearts is a gradual, organic process, and successfully cultivating compassion for ourselves necessitates a mature and steady approach.
–Lorne Ladner, from The Lost Art of Compassion (HarperSanFrancisco)
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