Cultivating loving-kindness
02 Awakening the Kind Heart – 2020 retreat
Venerable Sangye Khadro 
Cultivating the Four Immeasurables 
Nov 27, 2020 Part of a series of talks by Venerable Sangye Khadro based on her book Awakening the Kind Heart given during a retreat at Sravasti Abbey in November 2020.
- Introducing the prayer of the Four Immeasurables
- What does “Immeasurable” mean?
- Loving-kindness: the first immeasurable
- Cultivating the state of mind that wishes for the happiness, and causes of happiness, of oneself and others
- Obstacles to loving-kindness and remedies
- Benefits of loving-kindness
- Reflecting on forms of happiness and their causes
- Meditating on loving-kindness
Venerable Sangye Khadro
California-born, Venerable Sangye Khadro ordained as a Buddhist nun at Kopan Monastery in 1974, and is a longtime friend and colleague of Abbey founder Ven. Thubten Chodron. Ven. Sangye Khadro took the full (bhikshuni) ordination in 1988. While studying at Nalanda Monastery in France in the 1980s, she helped to start the Dorje Pamo Nunnery, along with Venerable Chodron. Venerable Sangye Khadro has studied Buddhism with many great masters including Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Lama Yeshe, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey, and Khensur Jampa Tegchok. She began teaching in 1979 and was a resident teacher at Amitabha Buddhist Centre in Singapore for 11 years. She has been resident teacher at the FPMT centre in Denmark since 2016, and from 2008-2015, she followed the Masters Program at the Lama Tsong Khapa Institute in Italy. Venerable Sangye Khadro has authored several books, including the best-selling How to Meditate, now in its 17th printing, which has been translated into eight languages. She has taught at Sravasti Abbey since 2017 and is now a full-time resident.
