
Sunday Cyber Sangha: Meditation and Dharma
Sun, Aug 08
|Zoom ID: 856 9627 5749 / Password: 912126
Join us every Sunday morning at 10 a.m. EST for meditation and dharma. August 8 Topic: Developing Bodhichitta By Understanding Self-Compassion led by Elazar Aslan


Time & Location
Aug 08, 2021, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Zoom ID: 856 9627 5749 / Password: 912126
About the Event
August 8 Guest Teacher: Elazar Aslan
Dharma Topic: Developing Bodhichitta By Understanding Self-Compassion
Bodhichitta is the said to be a supreme path to and fruit of enlightenment. Yet, among the many challenges to developing bodhichitta, especially in the West, is our discomfort with and mis-understanding of self-compassion. Most of us feel more comfortable giving compassion to others than to ourselves, but expect our hearts to open fully while still rejecting parts of ourself. Clearly, unbiased empathy, at the root of bodhichitta, requires us to be equally compassionate to all beings and all parts of all beings.
Join us as we explore the obstacles and challenges to self-compassion and the importance of how to overcome them as we continue to be motivated to develop bodhichitta. This will be both a discussion based teaching as well as an experiential one with a Compassion Medley meditation that covers a Hinayana, Mahayana and Vajrayana…