Compassion is empathy for other people and the desire to free them from suffering. But how to learn compassion? How to transform selfishness into generosity? His Holiness the Dalai Lama speaks simply and powerfully about the everyday Buddhist practice of compassion and shows that the path to compassion is through meditation.

The book "Open Heart", consisting of lectures given by the Dalai Lama them in 1999 in New York, provides an introduction to the basic spiritual practices of Tibetan Buddhism. The book offers a course of meditations, from the most simple to those requiring high skill, and introduces the reader to psychotechnics that allow adherents of various faiths to change their consciousness, open their hearts and pacify destructive emotions. Such practices can be practiced in any free time, transforming an aimless and restless mind into a disciplined and open mind.