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How to Heal After Your Teacher Crosses the Line

By Miles Neale

Here are some recommendations from contemplative psychotherapy for working with transgressions by or painful break with a spiritual teacher.

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Compassion and Loving-Kindness

Once we learn to forgive ourselves for being human, we are able to accept the humanity of others.

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Rolf Gates
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The Practice of Loving-Kindness (Metta) as Taught by the Buddha in the Pali Canon

The word "love"—one of the most compelling in the English language—is commonly used for purposes so widely separated, so gross and so rarefied, as to render it sometimes nearly meaningless.

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Ñanamoli Thera
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The Buddhist Practice of Loving Kindness (Metta)

Loving-kindness is defined in English dictionaries as a feeling of benevolent affection, but in Buddhism, loving-kindness (in Pali, Metta; in Sanskrit, Maitri) is thought of as a mental state or attitude, cultivated and maintained by practice.

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Barbara O'Brien
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Personalize Your Loving-Kindness Meditation

Self-compassion is one of the greatest gifts you can offer yourself. Use this guide to craft loving-kindness phrases that feel meaningful for you.

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Kristin Neff and Christopher Germer
2019
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