About
For decades, the Dalai Lama has been joyfully and persistently calling on people to practice compassion. As he so famously put it, “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” Compassion is a win-win for everyone involved – something that the Dalai Lama has long understood and which scientific studies unanimously confirm.
But, what does it mean to practice compassion? Aside from volunteering, donating money to a good cause or helping out a neighbor in need, how can we make compassion the cornerstone of our everyday lives? How can we put compassion into practice when meeting a friend for coffee, managing our staff at work, negotiating housework with our partner? The concept of co-mindfulness was born out of this simple inquiry. With its 7 core principles, co-mindfulness strives to make compassion not some high-minded ideal we practice once in a while or when it suits us, but the foundation of how we value and engage with each other, build community, take care of our planet and all sentient beings.
I am a writer who, in early 2019, took an unexpected professional turn into the mindfulness field. I spent the next two years conceiving co-mindfulness and developing its principles. I am not a relationship expert. I am not a mindfulness expert. I don’t believe in experts who treat compassion and love as commodities to be bought and sold on the market. And so, I created this website to ensure that co-mindfulness is available to anyone who wants to build a kinder and more compassionate world, one relationship at a time.
As a storyteller, I have spent the majority of my life seeking meaning in other people’s stories and trying to forge meaning through my own. Co-mindfulness is a story about our better selves. It’s a story that celebrates human life through our sacred and fragile interdependence. What I love most about co-mindfulness is that it’s a communal story, one we get to narrate together. It’s a story that can be as inspirational and healing as each of us chooses to make it.
I hope you will join me in rejecting the hatred, judgment and greed overwhelming the present story about who we are and join me in authoring a different story, one grounded in our compassion, generosity and mutual dependence.
Elizabeth Puccini
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