An Open-Hearted Life (2017-present)
Ongoing teachings based on An Open-Hearted Life given at Sravasti Abbey’s monthly Sharing the Dharma Day since April 2017. Co-written with clinical psychologist Dr. Russell Kolts.
Root Text
Finding the best in other people
Venerable Thubten Chodron How to improve relationships with others by recognizing and focusing on their good qualities.
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Meditation on metta and safety
Venerable Thubten Semkye A guided analytical meditation on loving-kindness or metta, focusing on offering safety to friends, enemies and strangers.
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Helping each other feel safe
How to identify when we do or do not feel safe, how to cultivate a sense of safety, and how to offer that to others.
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Guided meditation on compassion
Venerable Sangye Khadro A guided meditation to make the mind more familiar and more habituated to the feeling of compassion.
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Compassion and empathy review
Further commentary on how empathy is important in being compassionate, how to develop empathy and convey it to others.
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Meditation on compassion for our enemies
A guided analytical meditation to cultivate compassion for those we have difficulty with or who cause problems.
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Compassionate communication
How to bring compassion to our communication and how to look at situations objectively without assumptions.
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Meditation on compassion for friends, strangers...
A guided analytical meditation on developing compassion for friends, strangers, and enemies.
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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 threats.
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Meditation on perceived threats and needs
A guided analytical meditation on working with perceived threats, and how to change how we perceive and react in such situations.
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