Awakening the Kind Heart: How to Meditate on Compassion with Ven. Sangye Khadro
A kind heart already exists within us. It’s just a matter of learning how to bring it out. Join this intensive program to learn how to embody the four immeasurables.
A kind heart already exists within us. It’s just a matter of learning how to bring it out. Join this intensive program to learn how to embody the four immeasurables.
In this discussion, we will think through the process of developing needed self cohesion, while simultaneously softening a sense of separate selfhood. This course is open to all, and will be helpful to both meditators and clinicians interested in the clinical applications of Buddhist psychology.
Explore perception as the Buddha taught, free of the mistaken projections that color so much of our experience. Includes guided meditation and discussion to help make these insights concrete and accessible.
In learning to distinguish clearly between unhappy states of mind, such as anger, depression, and low self-esteem, and the upbeat states of mind, such as love, compassion, and confidence, that are actually at the core of our being, we are able to recognize and re-discover our profound innate potential.
At the heart of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition are the four immeasurable qualities: loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. Together, they create a foundation for greater inner peace, emotional resilience, and healthier relationships.
While science and Buddhism approach the mind from different perspectives, contemporary findings in neuroscience echo insights that Buddhist practitioners have cultivated for centuries: how to develop a healthier, happier, and more resilient mind.
In these teachings, you will receive tools to identify limiting beliefs you may be holding about the mind, explore how Buddhism presents the nature of reality, and learn how to reconnect with your true nature with wisdom.
Make a fresh start for the year 2025 by purifying our old habits with the meditation on the four powers and making optimistic decisions to change.
From Proliferation to Clarity: Transforming the Conceptual Mind
From Proliferation to Clarity: Transforming the Conceptual Mind