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RAMAKRISHNA ANANDA

Tibetan Yoga's Soft Heart

Have the events of life hardened your heart?

We focus on Pema Chodron’s discourses on the seven steps of loving kindness. As we live with open hearts, we rejoice in ordinary things and realize we are living in a sacred world.

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Open Your Heart

A Buddhist and a yogi both want the events of life to soften and open their hearts, not harden and close them. This attitude and practice of softening and opening the heart is called Bodhichitta — chitta means mind, heart or attitude; bodhi means awake, enlightened, or completely open. Those who train in awakening Bodhichitta are called warriors, warriors of non-aggression who hear the cries of the world.

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  • The attitude and practice of softening and opening the heart is called Bodhichitta. Chitta means mind, heart, or attitude; bodhi means enlightened or completely open
  • Bodhichitta has two levels:  unconditional and relative
  • Those who train in awakening Bodhichitta are called warriors of non-aggression. They live with open hearts
  • With the practice of maitri, self-acceptance, they discover that their fundamental energy is tender. They practice living with an open heart
  • To cultivate an open heart, a soft spot that doesn’t ignore pain and suffering, they practice the seven steps of loving kindness
  • The technique of Tonglen, which means sending and taking, is used to deal with shadows

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1. Like seeing a long absent loved one
True, but there is a better answer.
2. Like a bird flying free and limitless
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4. All of the above
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