The Compassion Project - Must Reads

"As you simplify your life,

the laws of the universe will be simpler;

solitude will not be solitude,

poverty will not be poverty,

nor weakness weakness."

Thoreau

"Simplicity, patience, compassion.

These three are your greatest treasures.

Simple in actions and thoughts,

you return to the source of being.

Patient with both friends and enemies,

you accord with the way things are.

Compassionate toward yourself,

you reconcile all beings in the world."

Tao Te Ching

Loving-kindness meditation & the Inner Smile meditation have been practiced by Taoist and Buddhist adherents for over 2500 years. As such, they are often overlooked as being too simple and not as mystical as samatha and vipassana,or those contained within the Internal alchemy, practices such as Qi Gong and Tai Chi.

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