The Negative Seeds of Self-Hatred

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There is a group of people who were Western meditation teachers, and at one point they said that what should be done about the selfhatred that many students experience.
He got confused because they didn't have a word for selfhatred in Tibetan, and they had a conversation about compassion and self-compassion.
He said that people might think selfcompassion is a weakness, but in fact, when you hold your humanity with a tender heart, with a genuine compassion, then you can also hold others that way and become a force for what's beneficial in the world.

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