Replacing Self-Hatred with Compassion - Jack Kornfield

Jack tells the story of one of the first international Buddhist teacher meetings with the Dalai Lama. The Western teachers brought up the enormous problem of unworthiness and self-criticism, shame and self-hatred, and how frequently they arose in Western students’ practice. The Dalai Lama
was shocked. He could not quite comprehend the word self-hatred. It took the Dalai Lama 10 minutes of conferring with his translator even to understand it. “But that’s a mistake,” he said. “Every being is precious!”