Mindfulness the doctor, Compassion the salve

Mindfulness is the first step the prerequisite and basis of meditation practice. Still, it's not sufficient on its own. When employed skillfully it helps us hold painful thoughts, feelings in an open balanced awareness without becoming fused with them. Compassion than helps us soothe those feeling and go beyond such feelings. Mindfulness is the doctor, compassion is the salve.

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Vipassana The Practice Of Insight

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