Jonathan Fields
speaker
348 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2018
last heard May 2018
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And he just he said, you know, to be received with so little tolerance and so little compassion.
is just this this is not what we're here to do.
This is not the way that we're here to be.
And um, you know, I th I thought it was it was telling both about I think the state of culture these days.
And and about the the state of compassion in culture these days.
And um yeah, there's a lot of research that shows that compassion is really important.
And that it also is a trainable experience and it's something that I think
You know, it makes a lot of sense for us to
both cultivated in ourselves and um
You know, for for anyone to be able to cultivate it just the way they move through daily life.
I remember
Uh a couple years back I sat down with Sharon Salzberg, who's this you know wonderful insight teacher and meditation teacher, and she told me that on the way over to the studio before we taped a conversation.
She was walking down the street doing something called a meta or loving kindness meditation.
And she was literally just looking at strangers on the street.
And as they'd walk by, she would think to herself,
May you be happy.
And another stranger would walk by and she would think to herself, May you be healthy and another stranger would walk by and she would think to herself, May you live with ease.
And she lit literally just moved through her day and and walked down the street.
Offering these these intentions of loving kindness to complete strangers and
She didn't do it for them.
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