Compassion Guided Meditations Archive

• Sean Fargo

How to Befriend Your Body, Your Emotions And Your Spirit

Sean Fargo leads a guided self-compassion meditation for befriending the body, the emotions, and the spirit.

• Gil Fronsdal

Be Still and Gaze Upon Everything Kindly

Gil Fronsdal, a teacher at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California, gives this short talk on the Buddha statue as a teaching in its own right: it represents being still, tranquil in body and mind, eyes gazing kindly.

• Gil Fronsdal

Guided Metta

Guided Metta meditation led by Gil Fronsdal. Metta is Loving-Kindness, is one of the cornerstones of Buddhist Practice and a companion of Mindfulness.

Generosity

Marcia Rose talks about the seamless circle of the paramies of generosity. Paramies are the accumulated forces of purity within the heart and mind.

• Sean Fargo

Self Compassion

Appreciate your compassion with this self compassion guided meditation by Sean Fargo. Take your mind into a difficult situation and internalize.

• Kristin Neff

Self-Compassion Break by Kristin Neff

In this self-compassion break exercise, Kristin Neff teaches us how to take a moment to offer ourselves compassion in the middle of a hectic day. Our tendency (when it comes to our mindfulness practice) is to develop compassion for others. But, are we developing enough compassion for ourselves?

• Kristin Neff

Self Compassion Meditation Script by Kristin Neff

This meditation by Kristin Neff is a variant of the classic loving-kindness meditation but tailored particularly on self-compassion.

• Kristin Neff

Compassionate Body Scan

Kristin Neff leads a meditation called the Compassionate Body Scan. It takes about 20 minutes to complete. Start with getting in touch with your body.

• Mark Coleman

The Flowering of Compassion

Mark Coleman talks about the Flowering of Compassion. Mark explains we live in a world of heartful connectedness. The real path lies in loving-kindness

Loving Kindness For The Earth

Einstein said a human being is part of the whole universe. Wes Nisker talks about Loving Kindness for the Earth. Our task is to widen our compassion for nature and its beauty.

• Sharon Salzberg

Equanimity and Faith

Sharon Salzberg talks about Equanimity and Faith. Equanimity is the evenness of mind, especially in difficult circumstances. Develop a mind that’s filled with so much love and resembles space.

• Mark Coleman

Life of Service

Mark Coleman talks about Life of Service. How wonderful and inspiring if the life of service we have is filled with compassion and loving-kindness.

• Rick Hanson

Self-Compassion Practice

Rick Hanson talks about Self-compassion Practice. It is easy to feel compassion towards others than to yourself simply because we don’t feel much concerned.

• Rick Hanson

Befriending Yourself

Rick Hanson talks about Befriending Yourself. This practice aims to cultivate the deep sense of being a friend to yourself. Firstly, take care of yourself.

• Tara Brach

Meditation: Tonglen

Tara Brach leads a guided Tonglen meditation, a Tibetan practice of giving and receiving. She describes the suffering we meet in life as a gateway to compassion, and invites us to meet it with loving awareness.

• Tara Brach

RAIN of Compassion

Tara Brach leads a guided heart meditation: RAIN of compassion. Begin with sensing the heart’s intention to awaken the heart of compassion.

• Tara Brach

Compassion Q&A

Tara Brach holds a Q&A session on the topic of Compassion. Let the heart soften and open, bring mindfulness attention to untangle the tangle.

• Tara Brach

Self-Compassion

Tara Brach talks about the topic Self-Compassion. In these difficult times, we’re often cruel on ourselves. It’s necessary to have self-compassion to bring the fullness of our being.

• Joseph Goldstein

The Kind Heart

Joseph Goldstein gives a talk (about 58 minutes) on The Kind Heart and cultivating loving-kindness. Whatever the mind thinks about something fondly becomes its inclination.

• Jack Kornfield

Developing Compassion

Jack Kornfield gives a talk on developing compassion, touching on the Buddha's words that the freedom of the heart is love and on compassion as the quivering of the heart when it touches sorrow.

• Sharon Salzberg

Going Home

Sharon Salzberg, a meditation teacher and New York Times bestselling author, gives a talk on going home: finding balance in a life of mindfulness and compassion, and aspiring to become a fully liberated being.

• Oren Jay Sofer

Mindfulness & Pain 6: Compassion and Investigation

Learn how to bring up kindness toward yourself & use the power of mindfulness to investigate how you feel in Compassion and Investigation by Oren J. Sofer.