
Suffering, Judgement and Compassion
When reading about compassion in Pema Chodron’s book "The places that scare us", I found a practice I have been doing for years. She is describing standing in line and wishing the defiant teenager in front of her to be free from suffering. As I gradually deepened my meditation practice, I started to notice how many times a day I judge the people around me. The second step was adding action after noticing my judgement. I would say in my mind to the person I was judging, “may y