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Cultivating Love and Compassion Retreats (2015)

Teachings from the Cultivating Love Retreat and Developing Compassion Retreat at Sravasti Abbey in 2015.

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Close-up of Mudita the cat looking into the camera.

Cultivating love

On the difference between love and attachment, and the obstacles to cultivating love.

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Close-up of Mudita the cat looking into the camera.

Obstacles and antidotes

Further discussion of the obstacles to cultivating love and how to work with them.

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Close-up of Mudita the cat looking into the camera.

Wisdom, love, and hatred

Verses from Buddhist scriptures on how to overcome the obstacles to cultivating love.

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Karuna the cat sits on a meditation cushion.

Developing compassion

Definition of compassion and the conditions we already have in place to cultivate it.

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Karuna the cat sits on a meditation cushion.

Becoming our own best friend

How to cultivate a healthy long-term friendship with ourselves. Learning to recognize the self-centered thought so it does not hinder this friendship.

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Karuna the cat sits on a meditation cushion.

Our capacity for kindness

Cultivating compassion for specific groups of people and how this inner work transforms our everyday lives.

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