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12 quotes by Joan Halifax

Joan Jiko Halifax (born 1942) is an American Zen Buddhist roshi, anthropologist, ecologist, civil rights activist, hospice caregiver, and the author of several books on Buddhism and spirituality. She currently serves as abbot and guiding teacher of Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a Zen Peacemaker community which she founded in 1990. Halifax-roshi has received Dharma transmission from both Bernard Glassman and Thich Nhat Hanh, and...
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Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly... →

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We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our... →

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Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well.

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For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind.

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I've worked in the prison system, on death row and maximum security. I did that work for six years. I've worked with some of the most... →

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Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.

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If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're supposed to do... →

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Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

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Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.

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My work has been in the field of engaged Buddhism. That is my own practice, which began in 1965 that formed the base for the work I was doing in the... →

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Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion, the generation of compassion... →

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When I first was exposed to Buddhism in the mid-1960s, I said it was so practical and utterly pragmatic. That's what attracted me to Buddhism.

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