6. Forgiveness sows the seeds for empathy.
Finding empathy for those who have hurt us is a wonderful — and admittedly challenging — practice. In his book, Open Heart, Open Mind, Buddhist teacher Tsoknyi Rinpoche writes about “empathy meditations," in which you imagine another person’s experience fully to understand their suffering. In furtherance of my quest to forgive my ex-husband, I embarked upon this meditative practice.