Living with an Open Heart
Teachings on Living with an Open Heart, the UK edition of An Open-Hearted Life, given in Denmark and Germany.
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Living with an Open Heart
How do we turn “do more, have more, be more” on its head and cultivate compassion as the key to happiness? Living with an Open Heart offers practical Buddhist and Western psychological approaches to opening our hearts. (UK edition)
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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.
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Living with an Open Heart (Denmark 2016)
Part of a series of teachings by Venerable Thubten Chodron based on Living with an Open Heart: Cultivating Compassion in Everyday Life given at Phendeling-Center for Tibetansk Buddhisme in Copenhagen.
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Living with an Open Heart (Germany 2016)
Teachings on Living with an Open Heart: Cultivating Compassion in Everyday Life sponsored by Tibet House Germany in Frankfurt.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron “Living with an Open Heart”: An introduc...
Having an open heart means changing our perspective and motivation. It leads to seeing others…
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“Living with an Open Heart”: The vastnes...
Buddhist ideas and techniques to awaken our compassionate motivation and bring our heartfelt aspirations to…
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Cultivating happiness and contentment
Happiness comes from a mind free from disturbing emotions. not from external things. Cultivating a…
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Examining our expectations of others
With a realistic view of others—friends and family and coworkers—we can avoid disappointment and conflict,…
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Becoming friends with ourselves
Through self-acceptance we can treat ourselves with kindness and compassion, and see that we have…
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Three types of emotion and their influence
The threat system, the drive system and the safeness system from the psychological and Buddhist…
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Connecting with others with an open heart
By opening our heart we can connect to others in a meaningful and healthy way…
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Comparing the Buddhist and scientific views of emotions
A look at two viewpoints on the source of disturbing emotions, how they cause problems,…
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How our emotions impact our mind
Understanding how emotions impact the mind helps us work with disturbing emotions and positive emotions.…
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Misconceptions about compassion
While everyone admires compassion, there is a lot of confusion about it. In addition to…
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Overcoming the obstacles to developing compassion
Recognizing the four qualities of self-centeredness that impede developing compasssion and looking at the ways…
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Compassion and interdependence
When we see that we are dependent on others we see the importance of caring…
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