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What Six Umbrellas in Kyoto Teach Us About Kindness

Six free umbrellas on a rainy Kyoto street offer a powerful lesson in kindness, and in how helping others can improve our own wellbeing.

Altruistic Behaviours in Artificial Neural Networks: Seeing Our Own Faces in the Mirrors we Built.

Nobody trains a neural network to be kind. We train them to win games, predict the next word, or tell cats from dogs.Continue reading on Medium »

Teaching the Science Behind Helping Others—And How it Helps You

Teaching: Use the student activities to teach how prosocial behavior can enhance the giver’s mental and physical health.

This Type of Compassion Brings Us the Most Benefit, Study Shows

Studies have long suggested that helping others can make us feel happier, and this extends to caring about animals too — as anyone who volunteers can attest. … Paul Gilbert, a clin...

Sympathetic Understanding Born of Ego

When joined with awareness and discernment, this self-cherishing ego can become the reference for cherishing others. The post Sympathetic Understanding Born of Ego appeared first o...

Zen and the Great Bodhisattva Way

The Real Teaching Begins After Enlightenment

What We Pass On: “Good People Put Others First”

You learned this one early, and you learned it as praise for somebody else. A neighbor sat with a dying woman for three weeks, or an aunt took in her sister's children, and the adu...