Like many people, finding happiness used to be my goal in life, and as an avid consumer of personal development products I learned a lot of techniques for getting there.  You’ve probably heard many of these:  think positive thoughts, force yourself to smile, take a warm bath, and so on.
For a while, I diligently used [...]

I took a meditation course recently where I got involved in an interesting conversation with a few participants.  We’d just done an exercise where the instructor told us, as we were breathing slowly and deeply, to “inhale compassion and understanding, and exhale peace and wellness toward all beings.”  One student I spoke to after the [...]