Courageous Compassion
For most of my life, I’ve explored philosophies and practices cultivating self-awareness and compassion. The great challenge of my life has been to translate the learnings into practical action; the way my heart handles the heartbreaking, the tragic, the frustrating, the complex real life moments along the path.

It’s one thing to develop compassion, it’s another to understand compassion in its clear unclouded form, and yet another to use it skillfully in the face of the chaos.

To challenge and cultivate this skill I have enrolled in the New York Zen Center’s Foundations in Contemplative Care course in which:

Together we learn to meet fear and discomfort with courageous compassion. Foundations in Contemplative Care is a transformational 9-month training for integrating spiritual practice with care. Since 2007, the program has supported people from around the world in bringing a contemplative approach to care into their intrapersonal, interpersonal and professional lives.
More about the program.

I will be using Patreon as an informal and totally freeform way to publicly document my journey, my insights and explorations, other parts of my life that inform and are informed by the learning, as well as past experiences, influences and realizations that have led me to this moment.

My posts won’t be regular or organized or logically consistent. Completely open, I have no idea where this journey will take me. Perhaps it defies documentation and this online space will lie dormant, proclaiming that defiance. I make no promises.

Follow me on this journey if you like. Contribute financially if you feel moved to it. Any help toward covering the cost of the tuition would help immensely.

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Gratitude and courage.

Craig
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