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Ep. 14 - Simplicity and Sympathy

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

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The Buddhist Path to Compassion

In the Hindu tradition that's called grace like in the Christian tradition the grace of our sufferings because they bring us closer to to our heart closer to real compassion. rambas talks about it as heavy grace right so one more story from pema she writes once there was a cook at our monastery Gampo Abi who was feeling very unhappy and decided to ventilate her escalating emotion by baking chocolate chip cookies this is real desperation i can see the plan backfired however she burned them all to a crisp at that point rather than dump the burned cookies in the garbage she stuffed them into her pockets and backpack and went out for a walk. She treged along the dirt road out in

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