Beautiful Jo. Compassion feels so central to all the work we do as psychologists, and feels to me like the primary medicine needed in the world today 💙
Yes, I agree. I love how the compassion focussed work also connects with spirituality. People like Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama come at it from a different direction, but with similar aims. I watched a beautiful film called Mission Joy, of their meeting in 2015. I can't recall if Desmond Tutu spoke the quote about going up river, but he had a lot of other powerful things to say. It's on BBC website, but I can't access it from here sadly.
Beautiful 🙏💛🙏 In Buddhism, we aspire to practice the 'Four Immeasurables' for all sentient beings including ourselves - loving-kindness, compassion, rejoicing and equanimity 🙏💛🙏
Thank you Emma. I'm going to need to look into the 'Four Immeasurables' some more- I find the first two hard to distinguish in my mind and need to find some examples. Rejoicing sounds like a lovely thing to practice. And the holy grail of equanimity!
As I type there is a very loud frog chirping outside. We have three days of heavy rain on its way- I wonder if it is warning the other frogs. I hope not to find more drowning creatures in the pool!
Beautiful Jo. Compassion feels so central to all the work we do as psychologists, and feels to me like the primary medicine needed in the world today 💙
Thank you Vicki.
Yes, I agree. I love how the compassion focussed work also connects with spirituality. People like Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama come at it from a different direction, but with similar aims. I watched a beautiful film called Mission Joy, of their meeting in 2015. I can't recall if Desmond Tutu spoke the quote about going up river, but he had a lot of other powerful things to say. It's on BBC website, but I can't access it from here sadly.
Beautiful 🙏💛🙏 In Buddhism, we aspire to practice the 'Four Immeasurables' for all sentient beings including ourselves - loving-kindness, compassion, rejoicing and equanimity 🙏💛🙏
Thank you Emma. I'm going to need to look into the 'Four Immeasurables' some more- I find the first two hard to distinguish in my mind and need to find some examples. Rejoicing sounds like a lovely thing to practice. And the holy grail of equanimity!
As I type there is a very loud frog chirping outside. We have three days of heavy rain on its way- I wonder if it is warning the other frogs. I hope not to find more drowning creatures in the pool!
Beautifully written. Thank you.