An Open-Hearted Life
Teachings on "An Open-Hearted Life" given at Sravasti Abbey’s monthly Sharing the Dharma Day since April 2017.
Related Books
An Open-Hearted Life
How do we turn “do more, have more, be more” on its head and cultivate compassion as the key to happiness? An Open-Hearted Life offers practical Buddhist and Western psychological approaches to opening our hearts. (U.S. edition)
Order From
An Open-Hearted Life: Study Guide
A study guide for An Open-Hearted Life: Transformative Methods for Compassionate Living from a Clinical Psychologist and a Buddhist Nun. The UK edition is entitled Living With an Open Heart: Cultivating Compassion in Everyday Life.
Download as
All Posts in An Open-Hearted Life
Venerable Sangye Khadro Slow things down and give them some space
How to slow down to prevent reactions we may regret.
View Post
Compassion as the antidote to the critical, judgment...
Using compassion to counteract a judgemental attitude.
View Post
Venerable Thubten Chodron Compassion as an antidote to low-self esteem
How compassion works as an antidote to low self-esteem.
View Post
Fear of compassion
How it takes time to form trusting relationships with others who have been harmed in…
View Post
Friends who give bad advice
How habitual disturbing emotions are like friends giving bad advice.
View Post
Removing partiality
By recognizing our differences are superficial we can overcome our partiality and biases.
View Post
Empathic distress
How compassion can fall into empathic distress, or compassion fatigue, when our focus turns from…
View Post
Compassion and personal distress
When overwhelmed by seeing suffering we may slip into personal distress. We can cultivate compassion…
View Post
The importance of consistency
How we can cultivate consistency and authenticity in our practice of compassion.
View Post
Spreading compassion
Through compassionate interaction with others we can inspire those around us to behave more compassionately.
View Post
Cooperation and attachment styles
The benefits of an attitude of cooperation as opposed to competition, and how we can…
View Post