Loving Humanity and Melting the Ice is a teaching by Anam Thubten. He teaches us to turn our attention to the world, to look into our heart, to love humanity, and to connect.
For more on this theme, see our 8 Mindfulness Exercises for Love and Compassion. It is hard to clearly define what unconditional love really is. As humans, many of us falter in offering unconditional love based on the way that life has conditioned us to understand the world we live in. Unconditional love is really more of a feeling – an intangible energy of acceptance and oneness – than it is a notion we can rationally hold onto. As we explore a variety of practices, such as mindfulness exercises for trauma and loving-kindness practices, we may start to gain a visceral sense of how we might open ourselves up to it.
