I am working on a technical paper on compassion. So I am reading everything I can on the subject, including my own mind and heart.

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way.

We have even done a weekend on Japanese grammar! Not that I know anything about Japanese grammar, but it was Kaz's idea, and it was a bit of an adventure, to say the least.

Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a whole cloth.

Death can come at any moment. You could die this afternoon; you could die tomorrow morning; you could die on your way to work; you could die in your sleep. Most of us try to avoid the sense that death can come at any time, but its timing is unknown to us. Can we live each day as if it were our last? Can we relate to one another as if there were no tomorrow?

Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.

Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.