Sympathetic Joy
In her online course “The Boundless Heart,” Sharon Salzberg explains how gratitude can help us overcome feelings of comparison and cultivate genuine happiness for others.
Meditation Meditation Month 2024
How to Choose Joy
Ask yourself, ‘What brings me joy?’ Then see what happens.
Teachings Meditation Month 2024
How Joyfulness Can Counteract Jealousy
Deliberately take joy in someone else’s gain and discover who that impacts most.
The Joy of Joy
Why delight in others’ happiness—mudita—matters now
The Mindfulness of the Buddha
The Buddha’s mindfulness has one purpose—the end of suffering. Do secular programs do the same thing?
In the Spirit of Service
International aid leaders explain how Buddhism's boundless states—lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity—manifest in their work.
Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche on the Cricket World Cup and Sympathetic Joy
Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, via the speakingtree.in, Your Joy is My Joy When India won the World Cup, more than a billion people were instantly overjoyed — men, women, children, Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Buddhists, and Christians. Having…
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