How Compassion Works (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Shambhala Publications Inc, Boston, 2025
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Paperback. Uncover your innate capacity for love, presence, and wisdom with compassion training adapted from Tibetan Buddhism and contemporary psychology.Uncover your innate capacity for love, presence, and wisdom with compassion training adapted from Tibetan Buddhism and contemporary psychology.Everything we care about-our mental and physical well-being, our relationships, our spiritual life, our ability to be useful to others-depends on our ability to access love and compassion within ourselves first. This clear, step-by-step guide offers a way to cultivate this power through an evidence-based meditation method called Sustainable Compassion Training (SCT).With practices drawn from Tibetan traditions, attachment theory, and cognitive science, How Compassion Works uses a progressive series of meditations to gradually build our capacity for mindfulness and presence-and to help us avoid empathic distress, compassion fatigue, or burnout. Organized into three categories-receptive mode, deepening mode, and inclusive mode-these practices help us cultivate unconditional care and discernment from within.With a flexible framework that allows practitioners to integrate their own religious or spiritual beliefs, this book offers practices suitable for people of all faiths and those seeking a purely secular path. "How Compassion Works presents a method of mindfulness training, adapted from Tibetan Buddhism in dialogue with contemporary psychological schools such as attachment theory, to uncover an innate, healing source of compassion and awareness that is always available"-- Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …
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- Title
- How Compassion Works (Paperback)
- Author
- John Makransky
- Publisher
- Shambhala Publications Inc, Boston
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 164547173X
- ISBN 13
- 9781645471738
Everything we care about—our mental and physical well-being, our relationships, our spiritual life, our ability to be useful to others—depends on our ability to access love and compassion within ourselves first. In this clear, step-by-step guide, John Makransky and Paul Condon show us how to tap this innate power through their evidence-based method of Sustainable Compassion Training (SCT).
With practices drawn from Tibetan traditions, attachment theory, and cognitive science, SCT offers a progressive series of meditations designed to foster love, compassion, wisdom, and presence in ourselves so we can then turn around and extend these same qualities to others and the world.
Organized into three categories—receptive mode, deepening mode, and inclusive mode—the practices gradually build our capacity for unconditional care and discernment from within. Additional meditations develop a capacity for cultivating empathy and compassion that avoids empathic distress, compassion fatigue, or burnout.
A flexible approach that invites us to bring our religious or spiritual beliefs and experiences into the process, SCT provides a reliable framework of practice for anyone who does not want to abandon their identity or affiliations for a purely secular approach to mindfulness.
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About the Author
PAUL CONDON is an associate professor of psychology at Southern Oregon University and a research fellow at the Mind & Life Institute. He has also served as a visiting lecturer for the Centre for Buddhist Studies at Rangjung Yeshe Institute. His research examines the relational basis for empathy, compassion, wellbeing, and prosocial action and the influence of compassion and mindfulness training on those capacities. His writings and teachings also explore the use of scientific theories in dialogue with contemplative traditions to inform meditation practices of compassion, mindfulness, and wisdom. His research and writings have appeared in leading psychology journals and Buddhist magazines, and his work on meditation has been cited in media outlets such as New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Smithsonian Magazine. Paul is codeveloper of the Sustainable Compassion Training model, and he teaches meditation practices adapted from the Tibetan Nyingma and Kagyu traditions for multi-faith and secular application.
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