We ache at the violence, pain, and hunger in our world, and inside us is a will to help. But 'help' only helps if it is an active ex-pression of love. Otherwise our attempts to help, limited by narrow self-concern, become rigid and too easily discouraged.
By John Makransky
John Makransky combines an academic career as a professor of Buddhism and comparative theology at Boston College with his role as a spiritual teacher within the natural ease tradition of Tibetan Buddhism (dzogchen). John has practiced meditations of compassion and wisdom from Tibetan traditions for over thirty years and has pioneered new ways of bringing these powerful contemplative methods into the secular world of social service and social justice by making them newly accessible to people of all backgrounds and faiths. He has also helped thousands of Western Buddhists deepen their contemplative experience of presence and loving compassion …..
http://www.johnmakransky.org
