Shauna Shapiro: How Mindfulness Cultivates Compassion

The author and researcher explores how moment-to-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, and surrounding helps us to see and alleviate suffering in others.
This clip is from the "Practicing Mindfulness & Compassion" conference on March 8, 2013. The Greater Good Science Center co-hosted this conference with Mindful magazine.

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Shauna you are a light in the midst of our home burning.

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I'm so grateful to have her as my instructor. I have learned alot in her class

[@Khanhtranggreen]

great speech, insightful lesson. From A Dalai Lama 2020 Fellow

[@BatOrgilBatsaikhan]

I love Spinoza! but I never heard about "We are cells in God's body". I LOVE IT! Beautifully said!

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She's the best.

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God bless U and thank U so much

[@philias07]

this is great

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Nice ending :-)

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Edit: Sorry, I got a little carried away here... Let me put a short version here at the top: I like Mindfulness as one tool among many in the understanding of human social behavior. There... the rest is just a small rant: I'm so hoping these elements of human nature can be studied without the baggage of superstition... I'm also a little cautious about any dogmatic statements to human behaviour, and even more when it comes to dogmatic solutions. Things are never that simple - if they were, we'd have figured them out by now. There's a reason why Buddhism doesn't seem to bring about a more compassionate societies. Why Zen Buddhist monks and Samurais had no problem killing their enemies. There might be a tool for us in meditation/mindfulness, but sometimes you need a hammer, not a screwdriver. One last thing. I really dislike Spinosa's methaphore, even though I'm fundamentally in agreement. We're all connected to all other living things, and even the entire material universe at some level, but not through "god" - simply from existing. The concept of "god" is limiting our existence instead of broadening it. We're all different, that's our strength, not our weakness. We're exactly NOT cells in a single body, we're a multitude of cells living in a multitude of bodies. Each is a learning machine on any level of existence. If there's anything unifying about life, that's it - we're all learning machines. Which is why I like the idea of Mindfulness as a learning tool.

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Flotte greier, interessant

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There is no really god, but you can feel like you are in connection with god and divine. We have two brains. Right and left hemisphere m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZe8k5qapJ2YY5o

[@murad4485]

wait.. does the personal vision take me away from the present moment?