A journal article published in 2020 in Frontiers in Psychology. Download the Sustainable Compassion Training Article
A new journal article co-authored by John Makransky, PhD and Paul Condon, PhD. The manuscript is available at this link: https://mindrxiv.org/dmxj7/
A manual for accessing unconditional powers of love, compassion and wisdom from our Buddha nature, authored by John Makransky.
To receive and extend love helps the mind relax into its most natural state—a state of pervasive openness, simplicity, and deep tranquility. By resting in its natural state, the mind can further unleash its underlying capacity of love.
In this practice you first receive your benefactors’ wish and energy of compassion into every aspect of your being, which helps your mind feel safe enough to permit more layers of your own suffering to become conscious.
In this meditation, we learn how to welcome feelings into a compassionate space where they can relax, find their own place, settle in their own time, and deeply heal in their own natural way.
This meditation, adapted from the mandala offering ritual of Tibetan Buddhism, provides a profound way to communicate with your Buddha nature.
Here we enter into the practice of taking joy in the positive actions and happiness of beings, then release the visualization into the openness and simplicity of the natural state, innate wisdom.
Condon, P., & Makransky, J. (under review). Compassion and skillful means: Cultural adaptation, psychological science, and creative responsiveness. MindRxiv.
Condon, P., & Makransky, J. (in press). Compassion practices. In D. Rakel & V. Minichiello (Eds.), Integrative Medicine, 5th Ed. Elsevier: Philadelphia, PA.
Condon, P., & Makransky, J. (2020). Recovering the relational starting point of compassion training: A foundation for sustainable and inclusive care. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 15, 1346-1362.
Condon, P., & Makransky, J. (2020). Sustainable Compassion Training: Integrating meditation theory with psychological science. Frontiers in Psychology, 11: 2249.
Condon, P. (2019). Meditation in context: Factors that facilitate prosocial behavior. Current Opinion in Psychology, 28, 15-19.
Condon, P., Dunne, J., & Wilson-Mendenhall, C.D. (2019). Wisdom and compassion: A new perspective on the science of relationships. Journal of Moral Education, 48, 98-108.
Makransky, J. (2019). Contrasting Tsongkhapa and Longchenpa: Buddhist Diversity as a Resource for Comparative Theology. In P. Knitter & A. Race (Eds.) New Paths for Interreligious Theology.
Makransky, J. (2019) How Buddhist and Christian Liberation Theologies Can Inform and Correct Each Other. Buddhist-Christian Studies Journal, 39, 241-258.
Makransky, J. (2012). How contemporary Buddhist practice meets the secular world in its search for a deeper grounding for service and social action. Dharma World on-line journal.
Makransky, J. (2012) Compassion in Buddhist Psychology. In C. Germer and R. Siegel (Eds.), Compassion and Wisdom in Psychotherapy (pp. 61-74), Guilford Press.
Makransky, J. (2011). Compassion beyond fatigue: Contemplative training for people who serve others. In J. Simmer-Brown & F. Grace (Eds.), Meditation and the Classroom (pp. 85-94). SUNY Press.
Condon, P. (2021). You can take refuge right here. Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Guide, Fall 2021 issue, 42-55.
Condon, P., & Makransky, J. (2020). Modern meditation needs to recover its communal heart. Psyche Magazine.
Makransky, J. (2007). Love is all around Tricycle Buddhist Review.
Makransky, J. (2001). Family life as practice. Tricycle Buddhist Review.
Makransky, J. (2001). Cartoon as path Tricycle Buddhist Review.
A manual for accessing unconditional powers of love, compassion and wisdom from our Buddha nature, authored by John Makransky.
Scholars of Buddhism, themselves Buddhist, here seek to apply the critical tools of the academy to reassess the truth and transformative value of their tradition in its relevance to the contemporary world.
Provides many new translations of original texts formative of Mahayana concepts of Enlightenment and resolves the 1200-year-old controversy between Indian and Tibetan views of the meaning of buddhahood.
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