Learn about the four great qualities of heart in this article, so you can relate from them more and more in your life.
A Short Contemplation on Death
Develop Self-Compassion to Be a Skillful, Effective, and Persistent Activist
As we work to create the beloved community and address systemic injustices, we will encounter the suffering of others, as well as our own suffering. Compassion allows us to meet suffering with an open and connected heart and a balanced mind. Self-compassion allows us to offer to ourselves the empathy, understanding, and kindness we desperately need. The more we respond to suffering with compassion, the more skillful, effective, and sustainable our activism becomes. Learn how in this talk and article.
Defining Love: Our Natural State of Being
In the previous class we concluded that the key to happiness is offering unconditional love to all people, beings, and life forms. But given the various and conflicting definitions of love in our culture, this talk clarifies what we mean by “love” and explains why it is a powerful and effective force for creating social change.
From Ego to Enlightenment and a Review of Compassion
Loving-Compassion Meditation - 45 min
Pascal Auclair’s Fire of Compassion Meditation
Compassion: The Love That Embraces Suffering
Loving-Kindness Meditation 40 min
An Intro to True Love: Kindness, Peace, Compassion, and Joy
What is love? How does it relate to truth? What are the four ways that love shows up in our lives? How can love be intrinsic to who we are and boundless in its scope, when we so rarely experience our inner love? How do we work with love to benefit our lives and free ourselves from our suffering? Learn all this and more.