Maitri Compassion Meditation. Often we are caught up in our own minds to the point of losing all awareness to those around us. If we look up from our own table and our own immediate needs, stress or opinions, we will notice a world of people in similar flavors of pain or suffering.
Mindfulness allows a dis-identification from our own personal woes. When you grow tolerance and acceptance of your own humanness, you become able to accept and sit with others. When you know the nature of mind, you know it’s not personal. You don’t have to harden your heart or prepare your defense. You can apply compassion.