Using the balancing of a great ship as an alive image for the 8 fold path of wise and compassionate equanimity. Then opening to the 12 links of dependent origination as the process of the 5 aggregates manifesting a sense of self.
Exploring how cultivating a compassionate heart awakens and frames our capacities to respond with loving awareness to the suffering in ourselves and the world. Compassion practices allow us to ferry to the other shore with a softened, tender yet fierce heart.
Exploring how all four brahmavihara practices strengthen and support each other, then focusing on compassion and self-compassion as antidotes to afflictive mental states
Ways of working with the hindrance of ill will or aversion, including an overview of the four brahmavihara practices of kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity as antidotes to ill will
