Developing love and compassion, steps four and five of the seven-point instruction to cultivate altruism, and what it means to have compassion for your self.
An Open-Hearted Life: Love and compassion
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Mental states and situations that are troublesome, a review
Venerable Thubten Jampa reviews the sections in Chapter 3 covering mental states and situations that are difficult and explores methods work though them.
Cultivating love and compassion, a review
Venerable Tenzin Tsepal leads a review of the section “Cultivating Love and Compassion” from Chapter 3.
An Open-Hearted Life: The seven-point instruction of cause and effect
How to reflect on the first three steps of the seven-point instruction to recognize the kindness of others and arouse the wish to repay their kindness.
Conflict and compassion: Opening our hearts when our views differ
When we can listen to others and open our mind to the fact that others have different views and ideas we can move toward harmony.
Why?
Poetry from inside a state prison.
Thought transformation: Changing perspective when problems arise
How thought transformation practices can be used to transform problems into something useful and beneficial.
An Open-Hearted Life: Cultivating compassion and equanimity
Equanimity, a mind free from bias and indifference, is important in order to have the kind of love and compassion that extends to all beings equally.
The peace and beauty of the night’s darkness
A prison volunteer finds respite from the daily struggle.
Four truths and three levels of practitioners
Continuing Chapter 8 “A Systematic Approach,” covering the sections “The Four Truths and Three Levels of Practitioners” and “More Than One Approach.”