An Open-Hearted Life
Teachings on "An Open-Hearted Life" given at Sravasti Abbey’s monthly Sharing the Dharma Day from 2017 to 2024.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Reaching out with compassion
How extending yourself to another living being pulls you outside yourself and opens the door…
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Finding the best in other people
How to improve relationships with others by recognizing and focusing on their good qualities.
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Helping each other feel safe
How to identify when we do or do not feel safe, how to cultivate a…
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Venerable Sangye Khadro Guided meditation on compassion
A guided meditation to make the mind more familiar and more habituated to the feeling…
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Compassion and empathy review
Further commentary on how empathy is important in being compassionate, how to develop empathy and…
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Compassionate communication
How to bring compassion to our communication and how to look at situations objectively without…
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Identifying our feelings
How to identify our emotions and distinguish them from thoughts and why it's important.
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Considering perceived threats and needs
How to assess and work with our feelings and needs in situations where we perceive…
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The importance of empathic listening
How listening is different from just hearing, and how we can cultivate the skill of…
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Empathy and humor
The importance of offering empathy to ourselves and others to bring connection and ease of…
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Working with Conflict and Making Requests
Exploring ways to handle conflict situations, and how to skillfully make requests of others to…
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Apologizing and forgiving
How to engage in apologizing and forgiving as part of the practice of compassion.
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