sympathetic joy

Your Happiness Is My Happiness

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.

By Sharon Salzberg

Nov 22, 2021

Trike Daily Meditation & Practice

How to Choose Joy

Ask yourself, ‘What brings me joy?’ Then see what happens.

By Amanda Gilbert

Jun 22, 2021

The Joy of Joy

Why delight in others’ happiness—mudita—matters now

By Daisy Hernández | Illustrations by Dan Bejar

Spring 2021

Trike DailyMeditation & Practice

The Mindfulness of the Buddha

The Buddha’s mindfulness has one purpose—the end of suffering. Do secular programs do the same thing?

By Phillip Moffitt

Jul 12, 2017

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Trike DailySociety & Environment

In the Spirit of Service

International aid leaders explain how Buddhism’s boundless states—lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity—manifest in their work.

By Sharon Salzberg, Pierre Ferrari, David G. Addiss, Ellen Agler and Jeffrey C. Walker

Apr 08, 2015

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 never encountered so much happiness all at once, I was struck by how over a billion people could share […]

By Tricycle

Apr 11, 2011

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You Can’t Be Yourself By Yourself: Overcoming Structural Selfishness

In this Dharma Talk, Malcolm Martin proposes the term "structural selfishness" to discuss the ways that a fixed idea of self hinders our practice, while offering insight on how to embrace the complexity of interdependence.

Malcolm Martin

Jun 2022

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