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Universalizing: Transforming Pain and Pleasure into Love and Compassion

Universalizing: Transforming Pain and Pleasure into Love and Compassion

FromA Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment


Universalizing: Transforming Pain and Pleasure into Love and Compassion

FromA Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment

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Length:
25 minutes
Released:
Sep 1, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

One of the most powerful Tibetan Buddhist mind training techniques is universalizing, a practice that transforms everyday pains and pleasures into profound meditations. From arguing with the family to stuffing yourself with a delicious meal, life’s problems and pleasures can bring anger, guilt, and sadness. The meditation technique of “universalization” transform our everyday experiences of pleasure and pain into engines of love and compassion.Universalizing: Transforming Pain and Pleasure into Love and CompassionSupport the show (https://www.skepticspath.org/support/)
Released:
Sep 1, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

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A Skeptic’s Path to Enlightenment brings the inner science of Buddhist meditation to twenty-first century people hungry for happy, meaningful lives. It is a secular approach to meditation that requires no belief beyond our current understanding of science and psychology. Skeptic’s Path meditations are based on powerful analytical meditation techniques that use imagination, emotions, and critical inquiry to probe our inner and outer realities and expand our compassion. These Tibetan Buddhist mind training techniques expand on the popular mindfulness approach to meditation to help us better understand our minds from the inside out, and build healthy mental habits that are the true causes of happiness. Each week in discussions, guided meditations and interviews, we explore the vast variety of analytic meditation topics including love, compassion, sleep, tonglen, vipassana, stress, the body, meditation posture, anger, anxiety, addiction, grief, forgiveness, patience, confidence, loneliness, work, relationships, and more.