Pema Chodron
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For arousing compassion, the nineteenth-century yogi Patrul Rinpoche suggested imagining beings in torment - an animal about to be slaughtered, a person awaiting execution. To make it more immediate, he recommended imagining ourselves in their place. Particularly painful is his image of a mother with no arms watching as a raging river sweeps her child away. To contact the suffering of another being fully and directly is as painful as being in the woman's shoes. ✨ Pema Chodron (2002). The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times, p.65, Shambhala Publications

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