Compassion
Opening to Others’ Feelings
June 2022
When our views and values differ from others’, how can we relate to them with an open heart? Simply listening without judgment is one of the best ways to love others whom we disagree with. Even if we hold different opinions, we can relate to their struggle and suffering, because we suffer as well. Pausing to listen can be the door to taking care of others in ways we never thought possible.
Spreading Care in the Pandemic
April 2021
This question and answer session with students in Germany discusses ways to apply the teachings of the Lam Rim to help our loved ones and the world during the time of the pandemic, especially those who need our support in their time of passing.
Circle of Compassion
April 2020
The potential to change what we see in our world is always there. Taking action with a kinder motivation, we create a circle of compassion, and as more people help each other, good results will spread. When we step up to make a change for someone else, the possibilities are limitless.
Self-Care Exchange
November 2018
If everyone saw the world from my eyes, then they would know how I want to be treated. What if it was the other way around, and we saw the people around us connected to our own needs? How much care must we give to ourselves to be able to extend the same care to others? Self-Care Exchange offers guided meditations and practical exercises on how to look out for #1.
Seven Steps to Love
December 2017
Simple acts of kindness happen all the time. Everyday someone is doing something that helps you get what you want to be happy. It is time to be thankful. Learn how to deepen your gratitude for the good things in your life with seven steps and spread the wish to love to everyone in the world.
Realize Your Perfection
April 2010
The greatest way to live a life full of true compassion is to train the heart in methods and wisdom of the Six Perfections. These are the daily activities of bodhisattvas, those who realize the only way to attain happiness is to serve others. These teachings will open your heart to the truth of love that is everlasting.
This class is based on teachings by Pabongka Rinpoche on the Lam Rim Chenmo, Great Book on the Steps of the Path, in 1937. His flawless oral commentary became the classic A Gift of Liberation Thrust into Your Hands.
A Mother’s Kindness
May 2015
This teaching focuses on The Seven Step Meditation that will take everyone to compassion. Embodying a mother’s caring heart becomes a vehicle for developing concern for the suffering of all people and the wish to help them reach happiness. Experience the path to love!
A Forgiving Heart
February 2014
Victory comes with a Forgiving Heart. There is no chance for inner peace when anger lingers in a heart untouched by forgiveness. The greatest battle is the fight for peace within ourselves when the heart is attacked by dislike for others who cause us suffering. Learn from the Masters of patience how to wield a sword of wisdom to conquer every disturbing incident in our lives with a forgiving heart.
The Wish
June 2012
Once upon beginningless time there was…
A great Wish that came to life as the heart chakra
Opened to a universe of infinite love.
From that moment without end…
The Angel of the Sky,
Granted every single living creature with
A passage to happiness everlasting.
Venerable Lama Chunzom speaks to us again from her 3-year Great Retreat in the desert, revealing methods to develop an extraordinary love that will lead to ultimate happiness. Venerable Lama takes us on a magical journey of opening the heart through a series of meditations in the Buddhist tradition.
The World in Relationship to You
May 2010
Bring the best of you into all relationships in your life. A presentation on equanimity from the text The Path to Bliss, written in the 16th century.
“For time with no beginning, I have cherished only myself. But doing so hasn’t accomplished anything for me or for others. In fact, it has forced us to undergo an endless variety of disappointment.” Everything is possible when you surrender to loving all.
Taking Care of Others
October 2009
Come hear ancient wisdom.
Light the way to your limitless compassion.
Build a practice for those you love.
Your Good Heart
April 2009
In Buddhism, Lojong, or good heart training, has been composed and passed down in an oral tradition from Lama to student for thousands of years, and has has flowed into the open teachings around the world. These specific techniques are now regarded as some of the most inspiring and practical ways of living a rich spiritual life. Lojong is meant for the business executive, the school teacher, the busy mom, as well as the spiritual practitioner up in the mountains. Listen closely and apply these teachings for fast, surprising results in your life.