Thread: Compassion talk

What a beautiful thing. It turns jealousy into happiness, and it can turn anger/irritation into wanting to help a person. You don't even have to meditate, just understanding the idea, which is very simple to understand, will accomplish this. Whenever you notice that you are jealous, realise that you actually want this person to be happy. You will enjoy this person's happiness more than you will enjoy his or her suffering, no matter how much you hate him/her. Voila, you are now free to enjoy his or her gift/quality that initially made you jealous.

And anger. If someone hurts you, you feel angry towards them. You know that this quality of the person is not one that creates optimal well being even for him/herself. So you say "I wish this person would be free of this negative quality", or something like that.

This can free your mind of needless negative feelings. And I find that I don't have to meditate on compassion, just noticing when anger or jealousy shows up and reminding myself of these things is enough.

I learned these things from this talk Joseph Goldstein - Buddhism The essential points -
He says other things beside this so I encourage you to watch it