How we can work over time to replace troublesome thoughts and emotions with more compassionate ones, and establish new, compassionate mental habits.
“An Open-Hearted Life”: Working with unwanted thoughts and emotions
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Mind and emotions
Beginning Chapter 3: Mind and Emotions, exploring the relationship between unhappiness and non-virtue.
Proving mutual inclusion
Explaining how to prove mutual inclusion, and leading the class in doing Exercises 11.1 and 11.2.
The possibility of ending duhkha
Covering the sections “Dependent Arising and the Three Jewels” and “The Possibility of Ending Duhkha.”
Purpose of a monastery
A discussion on ways in which the structure of monastery life serves to transform our minds.
Proving four possibilities and mutual exclusion
Covering the sections “Proving Four Possibilities” and “Proving Mutual Exclusion.”
The Teddy Bear Project
A surprise gift from a prison inmate for one of the Abbey’s volunteers.
The four truths of the aryas
Covering the sections “The Four Truths of the Aryas” and “Dependent Arising and Emptiness.”
Nonassociated compositional factors that are not persons
Finishing Chapter 10 with the section on Nonassociated Compositional Factors That Are Not Persons and beginning Chapter 11.
“An Open-Hearted Life”: The power of optimism and types of emotion
How an optimistic attitude is important in maintaining compassion. A look at different ways to understand, and work with, our emotions.
