“Freedom Through Meditation” by His Holiness 17th Karmapa. Talk 1: Love and Compassion Are Critical to Our Lives

This week’s talk, given by meditation instructor Eric Weinberg, is the first talk in a series examining the book, “Freedom Through Meditation” by His Holiness 17th Karmapa. Talk 1: Love and Compassion Are Critical to Our Lives.

The first step is to train in responding based on kindness and compassion rather than fixation, dislike and willful ignorance. Our kindness and compassion muscles are generally a little underused and flabby – maybe even unhealthy. To bring them back to good health the Buddha taught meditation practices that are a way of being kind and compassionate toward ourselves and develop the skill and strength needed to create kind and compassionate spaces for others.