Compassion
Listening to the Cries of the World
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
15 December 2016
Summary
Compassion in the face of pain, anguish, or unspeakable evil often produces confusion and bewilderment. How can someone endure such unjust suffering with such calm? Wouldn’t it be more natural, and more proper, to not be calm at all?
In Compassion, Christina Feldman draws over 30 years of experience as a Buddhist to explain how ordinary people are able to use compassion to overcome negative feelings like tragedy, pain, and terror. Feldman first examines compassion itself, usi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781930485112 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1930485115 |
| Author: | Christina Feldman |
| Publisher: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Imprint: | Rodmell Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 15 December 2016 |
| Weight: | 299g |
| Dimensions: | 226mm x 152mm x 15mm |
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In the early 1970s, Christina Feldman spent several years in Asia, studying and training in the Buddhist meditation tradition. She has led insight meditation retreats in the West since 1974. A cofounder of Gaia House, in Devon, England, she is a regular teacher at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts and at Spirit Rock in Woodacre, California. In addition, she leads retreats in Europe.
She is the coauthor (with Jack Kornfield) of Soul Food and the author of Quest of the Warrior Woman, Ways of Meditation, and Buddhist Path to Simplicity, as well as Silence and Woman Awake. She lives in Totnes, Devon, England.
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Christina Feldman
Christina Feldman spent several years in Asia in the early 1970s, studying and training in the Buddhist meditation tradition. She has led insight meditation retreats in the West since 1974. A cofounder of Gaia House in Devon, England, she is a regular teacher at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts and at Spirit Rock in Woodacre, California. In addition, she leads retreats in Europe. She is the coauthor (with Jack Kornfield) of Soul Food and the author of Quest of the Warrior Woman, Ways of Meditation, and Buddhist Path to Simplicity, as well as Silence and Woman Awake. She lives in Totnes, Devon, England.
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