Many people attempt to assist others the best way we need to assist — and get tangled in frustration when it doesn’t work. In Mahayana Buddhism, awakening comes by harmonizing compassion, knowledge, and skillful means: feeling with others, seeing clearly, and appearing successfully. This discuss with visitor instructor Michael Gayner explores how these three work collectively — from a baby’s cake story to the deep currents of bodhicitta.
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Discuss: Tips on how to Be Compassionate and Sensible: Classes from the Mahayana
Timecodes & fundamental subjects:
- 02:27 – The Three Pillars of the Mahayana: Compassion (karuṇā), knowledge (prajñā), and skillful means (upāya) as the guts of the Bodhisattva path.
- 05:48 – The Steadiness of Coronary heart and Readability: How compassion with out knowledge will be heavy, and knowledge with out compassion will be chilly.
- 07:01 – The Cake Story: Turning from self-focus to generosity — a small act that reveals huge chance.
- 11:44 – Bodhicitta, the Woke up Coronary heart: How love and knowledge merge right into a single, radiant consciousness.
- 15:34 – The 4 Karmas: Pacifying, enriching, magnetizing, and destroying as modes of compassionate engagement.
- 19:25 – Seeing Via Confusion: How knowledge and delusion come up collectively and will be reworked.
- 28:04 – The Karma of Destruction: Releasing confusion and righteous anger by presence, apology, and self-awareness.
- 33:56 – Working with Feelings: Turning towards anger or ache with maitri (self-kindness) to unlock readability.
- 37:40 – Meditation and the Ego: Distraction as perception — studying by boredom and returning kindly to the breath.
- 39:49 – When to Intervene: Appearing (or not) from love and presence quite than management or avoidance.
A Meditation: Respiratory Via What’s Arduous — and Sending Out Love
On this guided Tonglen meditation, Michael Gayner leads you thru a easy but profound follow of inhaling what’s tough and sending out care and therapeutic. You’ll discover ways to stabilize your physique and thoughts, soften round ache, and let compassion come up naturally — for your self and others. Good for anybody navigating battle, grief, or emotional challenges.
Michael Gayner was the Govt Director of Drala Mountain Middle from 2012 to 2023, and has been working towards meditation for the reason that mid-Nineteen Eighties. He has a PhD in Schooling with a give attention to holistic training, and on the intersection of instructing and non secular follow. Michael is presently serving because the Chief Working Officer of the International Compassion Coalition, and has a training and consulting follow.
