Awakening the Kind Heart: How to Meditate on Compassion with Ven. Sangye Khadro

[https://shantidevanyc.org/khadro-oct26/](https://shantidevanyc.org/khadro-oct26/) #### Thu Oct 22; Tue Oct 27, 7–8:30pm EDT #### Sat-Sun Oct 24-25, 10:30am-4:30pm #### **[Medicine Buddha Puja](https://shantidevanyc.org/programs/practice/medicine-buddha-puja/)** Mon Oct 26, 7:30-8:30pm EDT #### **IN-PERSON & ONLINE** A truly kind heart already exists in each and every one of us. It’s just a matter of learning how to bring it out and expand it so that we can feel it more often, for more people and more beings—and eventually for all living beings. In this intensive course of study and practice, Venerable Sangye Khadro will teach and lead students in discussions and meditations on the four immeasurables: love, compassion, joy, and equanimity. They are called immeasurable because they extend to all sentient beings. It is the cultivation of these intentions and feelings that open our hearts towards ourselves and others, and they are fundamental aspects of the path of awakening. While we set out to be kind, it can be quite difficult to practice. Our minds are innately pure but polluted by obscurations such as negative emotions. When we experience anger, jealousy, and pride, they can compromise our good intentions and create the conditions for unskillful reactivity. These obscurations can be identified and eliminated, allowing the true, pure nature of our mind to be revealed, which has the potential to experience boundless compassion.