Last updated: Oct., 2011
Author: W. David Hoisington, Ph. D.
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Step 1: Know deeply your own understanding of compassion
Six Steps to Living a Life of Compassion
Step 3: Practice holding the compassion space - for everyone.
Information to help you with these steps can be found throughout this web site.
Step 2: Think, read, write, or talk, about compassion every day
Step 4: Seek ways to develop strong and radiant compassion
Step 5: Remove both internal and external compassion barriers
Step 6: Make a difference using what you do best
Follow the lives of characters in a graphic novel as they face the challenges of living compassionately.
Compassion is something that is developmental. Accept the possibility of advanced compassion and learn to know where you are in the process.
Use this website to find material to read. Try the "journey" as a starting point for contemplation.
Have your first action toward people be one of "do no harm".
Come to understand that there are advanced forms of compassion, and that they are possible (the "tree" ).
We all have talents, and we have things we are passionate about. Use these to help others.
Find your own calling and then follow it with all your being.
Find your own calling and then follow it with all your being.
Read the assumptions and the basic papers and assess your definition and understanding.
Set aside at least 15 minutes a day for compassion thinking. Visit the compassion space blog and the graphic novel (link below).
Have your first thought about people be one of compassion.
Find time every week to "deeply listen" with compassion to another.
Understand the characteristics of the compassion space - see the "tree" and "compassion space".
Through daily study, training, and proper daily practices you can advance your own development. Examine your life in relation to the ten basic features that help the practice of radiant compassion.
The six steps here can be used as the starting point for developing advanced compassion.
Few of us can maintain the highest forms of compassion. As we drift away we can see the barriers, both internal and external, that inhibit our compassion development.
After you see the barriers then begin taking steps to limit their influence on your actions.
Pass it on - talk about or write about, or in some other way share, compassion information with others.