Week 1
The Freedom of Compassion Home Practices – Week One (10/30/25)
See PDF of the Home Practice here.
The Freedom of Compassion allows us to meet every experience with strength, balance, resilience, steadiness of mind/heart. Now, more than ever, we may benefit from cultivating this quality of heart and from the support of being with others in practice.
- Begin your day and/or your daily sitting: by taking a few moments to bring to your heart/mind your intention or aspiration to live a wakeful, engaged, compassionate life. (Or whatever intention resonates with you – or simply form the intention to open to compassion for the next 7 weeks. Then do your part to open to where tenderness, caring, compassion are in you.)
- Sitting: For a minimum of 15-30 minutes per day (more if you are able). Please practice your meditation in silence (If you use apps-use them only a few times this week). Do your best! Keep your meditation simple.
- Gratitude Practices: Gratitude is the capacity to take delight, to let ourselves feel joy, wonder. Our life is the gift of many lives!
- Text or email your buddies from class, 3 things you are grateful for each day. Can be anything.
- Cultivate a sense of appreciation each day.
- Thank someone every day.
- Please write down and bring to our next class: One thing about compassion that you noticed or explored each day. For example: Noticing what compassion is or isn’t in daily life. Or what allows compassion to arise? Or what allows you to be compassionate? And notice what stops you from being compassionate?
- For those who wanted the phrases used in class: May I find healing, May I find peace or ease in this moment, May I rest in caring, tenderness, compassion.