Meditation on compassion as the antidote to the critical, judgmental mind
Venerable Thubten Jigme 
Cultivating the Four Immeasurables 
Nov 19, 2023 A guided meditation led at Sravasti Abbey’s monthly Sharing the Dharma Day.
A meditation on replacing a judgmental attitude with compassion – drawing from Chapter 63, “Compassion as the Antidote to the Critical, Judgmental Mind,” from the book, An Open-Hearted Life.
- Setting the meditation posture
- Instruction on breathing meditation
- Meditation on the breath for eight minutes
- Analytic meditation
- Bring to mind someone you know that you are critical of
- Think of a judgemental thought you had about them
- Shift your attitude to compassion for them
- View them with equanimity and see that they are similar to yourself
- Dedication
Meditation on compassion as the antidote to the critical, judgmental mind (download)
The rest of the Sharing the Dharma Day talk can be found here.
Venerable Thubten Jigme
Venerable Jigme met Venerable Chodron in 1998 at Cloud Mountain Retreat Center. She took refuge in 1999 and attended Dharma Friendship Foundation in Seattle. She moved to the Abbey in 2008 and took sramanerika and sikasamana vows with Venerable Chodron as her preceptor in March 2009. She received bhikshuni ordination at Fo Guang Shan in Taiwan in 2011. Before moving to Sravasti Abbey, Venerable Jigme (then Dianne Pratt) worked as a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner in private practice in Seattle. In her career as a nurse, she worked in hospitals, clinics and educational settings. At the Abbey, Ven. Jigme is the Guest Master, manages the prison outreach program and oversees the video program.
