Equanimity: The fourth immeasurable thought
Awakening the Kind Heart with Venerable Sangye Khadro - Session 5
Venerable Sangye Khadro 
Cultivating the Four Immeasurables 
May 17, 2022 Part of a series of talks by Venerable Sangye Khadro based on her book Awakening the Kind Heart hosted online by Thubten Kunga Ling in April and May 2022.
- Breathing meditation & setting of a positive motivation
- The mistaken categorization of people into “friends”, “enemies”, and ”strangers”
- Developing an even-minded attitude that regards all beings as equally deserving of our kind heart
- The difference between indifference and equanimity
- Reflecting on the prayer “May all beings abide in equanimity, free from attachment and anger that holds some close and others distant”
- Obstacles to equanimity: attachment and anger
- Guided meditation on equanimity
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 Venerable Thubten Chodron. She took bhikshuni (full) 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 with many Buddhist masters including Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Lama Yeshe, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey, and Khensur Jampa Tegchok. At her teachers’ request, she began teaching in 1980 and has since taught in countries around the world, occasionally taking time off for personal retreats. She served as resident teacher in Buddha House, Australia, Amitabha Buddhist Centre in Singapore, and the FPMT centre in Denmark. From 2008-2015, she followed the Masters Program at the Lama Tsong Khapa Institute in Italy. Venerable has authored a number books found here, including the best-selling How to Meditate. She has taught at Sravasti Abbey since 2017 and is now a full-time resident.
