Compassion practice may be understood as an experiential approach to cultivating an attitude of understanding and loving acceptance towards oneself as well as others. It is an intentional focusing of awareness on embodied states with the goal of clarifying one’s capacity to open up to and receive life’s joys and sorrows, hardships and successes, and to meet such moments with tenderness, presence and understanding. Compassion practice involves the cultivation of mindful presence and qualities such as generosity, kindness, and a transforming wisdom that sees through the illusion of separation between self and other.

See also: insight meditation, dependent origination, love, equanimity, metta practice