30 Compassion and the Suffering of Change

Alan Wallace guides us in a 24-minute meditation on compassion,
furthering this aspiration to recognize a deeper dimension of
suffering -- the suffering of change. This type of suffering is
brought about by attachment and craving.


The meditation begins at 17:45 in the recording and is followed
by a brief, silent meditation.


Alan then speaks freely for a short while and then answers these
questions:


1. What are the minimum requirements to teach shamatha?


2. At what point is the secularization of Buddhism skillful and
useful?


3. When you say that craving is always a seed of suffering, and I
look at my own experience to examine this statement, while it is
true often, sometimes it is not true. Can you help explain this?