Emotional Brilliance
If the test of social skill is the ability to calm distressing emotions in others, then handling someone at the peak of rage is perhaps the ultimate measure of mastery. The data on self-regulation of anger and emotional contagion suggest that one effective strategy might be to distract the angry person, empathize with his feelings [...]
Posted at 12:58 am on November 11, 2009 | leave a comment | Filed Under: Readings, love | Tagged: metta, psychology, emotional, EQ | read on
Love – Ayya Khema
I could not have worded it any better. So here it is, I’d like to share with you.
So we’ll have a look at it and see what the Buddha actually meant when he talked about love. He talked about it on many occasions, and this emotion underlies all his teaching. He was enlightened at the [...]
Posted at 2:12 am on October 25, 2009 | leave a comment | Filed Under: Recollections, love | Tagged: kindness, loving, metta, Reflection | read on
