From a Buddhist tradition, the three marks can be summarized in the catchy phrase: “Shit happens. Everything changes. Don’t take it personally.”

Mindfulness entails uninvolved receptivity of experience in a non-doing mode. Loving-kindness and compassion, on the other hand, are actively directed practices: radiating out or embracing.

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it? I don’t want to wrap myself in self-pity.” We

“Feeling tones” are simply the felt sense of registering an experience as pleasant, neutral, or unpleasant. They aren’t judgments. And they aren’t thoughts, although when we analyze them and start thinking about them we are, of course, using our thoughts.

We have provided a partial list of useful research in chapter

“cells that fire together, wire together.”

is not on “what happened” but “how did you relate to it, in regard to your mindfulness practice.”

to meet each moment with kindness and discernment.