Mini Mindfulness Break for December 09, 2020

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How to Practice Sympathetic Joy

In the Buddha’s teachings, sympathetic joy or being happy for another’s happiness (Pali: mudita) is one of the four brahmaviharas, the four highest qualities of the heart. In recent years, the other three–loving-kindness, compassion, and equanimity–have received quite a lot of attention from practitioners, researchers, and the press alike. But sympathetic joy has gotten little attention. How can that be? Shouldn’t joy be the most appealing of the heart qualities? Not necessarily. Traditionally it is often referred to as the most difficult of the four. Sympathetic joy is complicated.

– Christiane Wolf, Lion’s Roar

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Mini Mindfulness Break for March 02, 2020

Transforming Jealousy into Joy

The transformation of jealousy through the cultivation of sympathetic joy [the capacity to participate in the joy of others] bolsters the awakening of the enlightened heart.

– Jorge Ferrer, “What’s the Opposite of Jealousy?”

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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering!

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Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

 

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