Compassion - Part 2 of Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love

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🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Compassion – the tender resonance of heart – awakens as we allow ourselves to be touched by our shared vulnerability.

This series reflects on four primary expressions of an awake, wise heart: lovingkindness, compassion, joy and equanimity. In each talk we explore the habitual patterning that blocks our full realization of these innate capacities, and the understandings and practices that nurture their unfolding.

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0:00.0	Greetings. We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:06.0	To make a donation, please visit tarabrock.com. Namaste and welcome.
0:29.6	So I'd like to wish you a happy Valentine's Day and begin with a brief quiz.
0:40.3	The first one is, what do squirrels give each other on Valentine's Day?
0:47.3	Any guesses?
0:49.3	Forget me nuts.
0:53.3	Okay, one more, only one more.
0:57.0	What does an octopus sing to his beloved on Valentine's Day?
1:04.0	I want to hold your hand, hand, hand, hand, hand, hand, hand, hand, hand.
1:13.6	Okay, I gave it a good shot, right?
1:20.6	So, appropriately, we're in the midst of a four-part series on awakening the present heart. And this is the first one.
1:33.8	The first one that we did was on awakening loving-kindness, which is the seeing the goodness
1:40.0	and responding to the goodness in life. The second is compassion, which is what we'll
1:45.0	be doing this class, and then we move on to joy and equanimity. And in the Buddhist
1:51.3	tradition, these four are called the Brahma Vajaras or the divine abodes, because they
1:57.2	really express the capacity and potential of our awakening heart.
2:03.6	So, in thinking about each one of them, we look at, you know, really what's blocking
2:11.6	this innate capacity we have and what cultivates it.
2:16.6	So as we think of compassion tonight, I'd like to invite you to bring capacity we have and what cultivates it.
2:17.7	So as we think of compassion tonight, I'd like to invite you to bring to mind someone you
2:23.8	know or if you don't know anyone, someone you know of, who you really consider as authentically
2:31.0	compassionate.
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