Laura Bridgman

Playing 1 of 1 Compassion and the Inner Critic Download Transcript It has been edited for clarity. Subscribe or Log in to Download Transcript How do we cultivate compassion through meditative awareness? In this reflection, teacher Laura Bridgman explores how we can meet our experience—including the voice of the inner critic—with curiosity rather than judgment.

This excerpt has been adapted from Tricycle’s online course, “Embracing Impermanence and Imperfection: Bringing Compassion to Life,” with Martine Batchelor, Laura Bridgman, and Gavin Milne. Learn more about the course and enroll at learn.tricycle.org. Sometimes as Buddhists, we can develop an orientation that somehow we need to go beyond our sense of self or get rid of it. But I’d say the process is more about discovering through inquiry how the sense of self arises.

This excerpt has been adapted from Tricycle’s online course, “The Dharma of Relationships: The Paramis in Action” with Martine Batchelor and Laura Bridgman. Learn more about the course and enroll at learn.tricycle.org. Martine Batchelor: When we look at relationships, one question that often comes up is: What about practice and sexuality? Often there is talk about desire as something negative. But you also have the desire, of course, for awakening.