Compassion Practice

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Karuna, or compassion, is a state of mind/heart that can be cultivated as a practice. Compassion is an intuitive response to someone else's suffering, or your own.

 

Sit quietly, evoking an image of one self or another

and repeat this phrase over and over again.

Allow yourself to open to the feeling. 

 

I can feel your suffering.

May your suffering cease.

Alternate Phrase:

My heart is open to your suffering

May your suffering cease.

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Expanded Version:

I can feel your suffering

May your suffering cease

May the light of  love and understanding penetrate the darkness of your pain.

May your suffering cease.

May your suffering cease.

Alternate Phrasess:

May the light of  love and understanding penetrate (or release) the  darkness of your pain (or your despair, or your regret, or your anger, or your hated.)

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Match the words with what the true situation is.