Guided Compassion and Healing the World Meditation ~ Shinzen Young

Shinzen leads a short guided meditation on compassion and healing. This is most appropriate for anyone feeling pain due to any event(s) or actions that have affected many others. “Something has happened; it reached out and hurt many people. In connecting with that, we connect with the enormous web of similar things that have been happening for tens of thousands of years all over the planet. This immense pool of poison and pain of humans hurt by other humans. We can connect to that. We have that within us. There’s a place inside that’s so far in that it’s out in each of us. You can call it boundless consciousness. Connecting with that place, we can see the vast net of hurt as the Buddha did in his night of enlightenment. We can see the causes. We can see the effects. And we can feel compassion for the victims, compassion for the perpetrators, and compassion for ourselves. And not only can we feel this, but it can be a source of empowerment to motivate us to do even more in whatever way we can for this healing of the world.“ ~ Shinzen Filmed in March 2013 at Mt Carmel Spiritual Centre in Niagara Falls. See also: Bodhicitta, Bodhisattva ~ Shinzen Young