Our partner, Spirituality & Practice, is offering an eCourse that will teach you how you can be a compassionate, caring presence to those suffering in your community and the wider world and even to yourself. Learn more and register through the links below…
The Practice of Compassion: A Multifaith Guide
Taught by Frank Rogers, Sally Taylor, Ted Falcon, Jamal Rahman, Philip Goldberg, Thomas Moore
Monday, January 16 – Thursday, February 23, 2016
Compassion is a feeling deep within ourselves, a “quivering of the heart,” when we find ourselves affected by the suffering of others. Buddha, Jesus, and Muhammad are the most well known exemplars of compassion, which is the central ethical virtue in the religions which sprang from their teachings. It is also a core value for other great religions of the world.
Compassion is more than a feeling. Compassion is a spiritual practice, and you can get better at it over time. The world’s religious and spiritual traditions offer us specific ways to do this. This e-course will teach you how you can be a compassionate, caring presence to those suffering in your community and the wider world and even to yourself. It will give you antidotes to attitudes that hinder compassion — all those “isms” like racism, sexism, ageism, classism, and nationalism.
This is a six-week e-course, and it is truly a “multifaith guide” to this spiritual practice.
The six presenters are each deeply rooted in their respective religions; they are highly regarded as knowledgeable and caring spiritual leaders. Each of them will cover one week of the course, showing how compassion is a core value in their tradition and providing practices for you to incorporate into your life.
(This eCourse is offered by Spirituality & Practice.)