Ep. 520 - Embracing Suffering with Joseph Goldstein & Noah Markus

Raghu and his son Noah talk with Joseph Goldstein about the necessity of embracing suffering in order to activate compassion.

Raghu, Joseph, and Noah explore these topics:

• Empathy and compassion for global suffering
• Fixing your own heart in order to offer compassion to others
• Lessons from Tsoknyi Rinpoche on “California Compassion”
• Checking in with our motivations and intentions
• The tendency to avoid suffering
• How a willingness to look at suffering is a precursor to compassion
• Renunciation and the willingness to let go of our own comfort
• Reminding ourselves that it is okay to feel the unpleasant
• Using suffering to learn something meaningful
• The suffering that comes along with aging
• Meditating on the our finiteness

A guided Mudita practice with Joseph

“Compassion arises when we’re willing to come close to suffering. That’s the cause for compassion, and if we don’t have that willingness, it’s not going to arise because the compassion is in response to the suffering in the world, in other people, even in ourselves.” – Joseph Goldstein

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