When we practice generating compassion, we can expect to experience our fear of pain. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allow ourselves to move gently toward what scares us. The trick to doing this is to stay with emotional distress without tightening into aversion, to let fear soften us rather than harden into resistance.


Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion (ed. Shambhala Publications, 2008) - ISBN: 9781590306260


When we practice generating compassion, we can expect to experience our fear of pain. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax...

When we practice generating compassion, we can expect to experience our fear of pain. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax...

When we practice generating compassion, we can expect to experience our fear of pain. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax...

When we practice generating compassion, we can expect to experience our fear of pain. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax...