Can kindness be cultivated as a skill?
How?
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Meditation is part of a solution - it gives you some space to do this
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There’s a specific type of meditation that deals with this, no?
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Yeah Kabat-Zinn loving-kindness meditation. But I’m not talking about cultivating the attitude. I’m talking about actual everyday skills.
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If you look in positive psych lit, you can find exercises in cultivating kindness
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Kindness is more a state of mind than a skill. We cultivate it by expanding our concept of self. How is a tricky question but it might start with becoming more conscious of our ego and how it works.
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Skills are cultivated for benefits. Kindness is an outcome of expanding oneself and developing more empathy.
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Not to mention that you cannot be kind because it is a cool thing or you want to be perceived as being kind.
"true compassion is ruthless, from ego’s point of view, because it does not consider ego’s drive to maintain itself.” - Chogyam Trungpa





