By Dan Harris — 2017
No amount of meditation will allow me to unhear the sickening thud of my toddler’s head as it made impact with the edge of our wooden coffee table.
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LinkedIn’s head of mindfulness and compassion programs says, “Compassion is a strategy for long-term success.”
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In this teaching from 2004, Joseph Goldstein explains how three principles of meditation can be applied to the world’s conflicts.
As Buddhist teaching says, suffering has the potential to deepen our compassion and understanding of the human condition. And in so doing, it can lead us to even greater faith, joy and well-being.