The importance of having compassionate individuals in our lives, who can inspire our own practice of compassion and love.
Connecting with compassion
A series of talks based on An Open-Hearted Life given at Sravasti Abbey’s monthly Sharing the Dharma Day in April 2017. Co-written by Venerable Thubten Chodron and clinical psychologist Dr. Russell Kolts, the book offers practical Buddhist and Western psychological approaches to developing compassion.
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A series of talks based on An Open-Hearted Life given at Sravasti Abbey’s monthly Sharing the Dharma Day in April 2017. Co-written by Venerable Thubten Chodron and clinical psychologist Dr. Russell Kolts, the book offers practical Buddhist and Western psychological approaches to developing compassion.
An Open-Hearted Life: The importance of regular practice
The benefits of a regular meditation practice, the obstacles that may arise and how to overcome them.
An Open Hearted Life: The four immeasurables
The four immeasurables—love, compassion, joy and equanimity—present a way to relate to other living beings that is healthy and beneficial.
An Open-Hearted Life: Compassionate thinking and mentalizing
To develop compassion, we want to nurture beneficial and realistic ways of thinking and avoid counterproductive thinking.
An Open-Hearted Life: Compassion and Empathy
How empathy is a core component of compassion, both in being able to feel compassion and to act skillfully on compassionate intentions.
An Open-Hearted Life: Working with judgement and partiality
A look at the source of our judgement and bias, its influence on interactions, and how we can recondition ourselves to see others more accurately.
An Open-Hearted Life: Self-compassion
What it means to have self-compassion and how it helps to cultivate compassion for others. The three components of self-compassion.
An Open-Hearted Life: Exchanging self and others and taking and giving
How the taking and giving meditation is a powerful tool for eradicating self-centeredness and cultivating love and compassion towards all beings equally.
An Open-Hearted Life: Rules of the universe and the benefits of cherishing others
How to identify our personal “Rules of the Universe” and their connection to the self-centered thought. And how cherishing others is a source of joy and peace.
An Open-Hearted Life: The disadvantages of self-centeredness
Decreasing self-centeredness broadens our view beyond ourselves and changes our relationship with others and the world.