The message for the dathun as well as for the reader is to be with oneself without embarrassment or harshness. This is instruction on how to love oneself and one’s world. It is therefore simple, accessible instruction on how to alleviate human misery at a personal and global level.

“What does bodhicitta look like?” These four qualities—of understanding; of acting to benefit self and others; of generating and offering compassion to myself and to others; as well as the aspiration, the deep vow, to always be there by the side of those in need—are bodhicitta in action.

How bodhicitta works is very simple. When we look outward and see how much all other beings are suffering—even though they want to be happy just as much as we do—then our care for our small, individual self naturally transforms into care for a much bigger “self.” We grow from having self-care to universal care. Right away our own suffering becomes

Outre les méthodes que nous avons déjà exposées, telles que regarder la source des pensées, débusquer l’émotion vive, il en existe d’autres, simples, relativement faciles à mettre en œuvre en tout temps et lieu. Elles reposent principalement sur l’accroissement de la compassion, émotion positive par excellence puisqu’elle offre le soulagement à ceu