Having an open heart means changing our perspective and motivation. It leads to seeing others as worthwhile with internal beauty.
Teachings based on Living with an Open Heart: Cultivating Compassion in Everyday Life given in Copenhagen, Denmark and Frankfurt, Germany in 2016.
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Teachings based on Living with an Open Heart: Cultivating Compassion in Everyday Life given in Copenhagen, Denmark and Frankfurt, Germany in 2016.
“Living with an Open Heart”: The vastness of compassion
Buddhist ideas and techniques to awaken our compassionate motivation and bring our heartfelt aspirations to be of benefit to others into our everyday lives.
Cultivating happiness and contentment
Happiness comes from a mind free from disturbing emotions. not from external things. Cultivating a mind of contentment with what we have and who we are.
Examining our expectations of others
With a realistic view of others—friends and family and coworkers—we can avoid disappointment and conflict, and develop healthy relationships.
Becoming friends with ourselves
Through self-acceptance we can treat ourselves with kindness and compassion, and see that we have the capacity to change.
Three types of emotion and their influence
The threat system, the drive system and the safeness system from the psychological and Buddhist perspective. The difference between the mind and the brain.
Connecting with others with an open heart
By opening our heart we can connect to others in a meaningful and healthy way that is mutually beneficial.
Comparing the Buddhist and scientific views of emotions
A look at two viewpoints on the source of disturbing emotions, how they cause problems, their remedy, and the goal of working on them.
How our emotions impact our mind
Understanding how emotions impact the mind helps us work with disturbing emotions and positive emotions. The ways anger and compassion impact the mind.
Misconceptions about compassion
While everyone admires compassion, there is a lot of confusion about it. In addition to learning what compassion is, it’s good to know what it isn’t.
