Buddhist Practices for Opening the Heart
Somewhere along the way, the heart can close. Old hurts, self-protection, the steady armoring that life asks of us — and one day you notice that compassion has become more idea than feeling. You understand it. You believe in it. But it doesn't always reach you, or move through you toward the people in your life.
This self-paced course is about opening that back up. Not by forcing warmth, but by working with the practices the tradition developed for exactly this — the four boundless qualities, tonglen, the meeting of compassion and wisdom — until they stop being concepts and start being something you feel.
It's slow, honest work, and it transforms how you meet yourself first, and then everyone else.
Investment: $125
In this course, you'll:
Develop Compassionate Awareness: Be fully present with your feelings, meeting them with understanding rather than judgment.
Work With the Four Boundless Qualities: Equanimity, love, compassion, and joy — cultivated as living practices, not concepts.
Practice Tonglen: Learn the ancient giving-and-taking practice that grows lovingkindness and compassion, and how to bring it into daily life.
Explore Non-Dual Compassion: Discover how compassion and wisdom meet as a single path toward genuine peace.
“An open heart is an open mind.”
- Dalai Lama XIV
What you'll receive:
Format: Weekly lessons and guided meditations
Video Lessons: 48 in total
Guided Meditations: 16 practices
Total Duration: Over 10 hours of video
Lifetime Access: Yours to keep, no time limit
Investment: $125
Course Curriculum:
Week 1: Developing Compassionate Awareness We begin with compassionate presence — learning to stay with your feelings through embodied awareness, acknowledging them without judgment and meeting them with understanding.
Week 2: Connecting to a Deeper Field of Care There's a field of care all around us, and this week is about attuning to it. Through mindfulness practice, you'll learn to recognize it and let it become more present in everyday life.
Week 3: Cultivating Boundless Equanimity Equanimity is the ground the other qualities rest on. You'll practice meeting all beings with a balanced, even mind — free of bias, attachment, and aversion.
Week 4: Practicing Boundless Love This week turns toward love: the genuine wish that all beings, yourself included, find happiness and its causes. You'll work with practices that open the heart toward that wish.
Week 5: Fostering Boundless Compassion Compassion is the wish for beings to be free from suffering. Building on the previous weeks, you'll cultivate that wish — held as much for yourself as for everyone else.
Week 6: Experiencing Boundless Joy Joy completes the four boundless qualities. Here you'll practice rejoicing in others' happiness and good fortune, rather than measuring it against your own.
Week 7: The Practice of Tonglen Tonglen — "giving and taking" — is an ancient practice for expanding lovingkindness and compassion. You'll learn it step by step and explore how to carry it into daily life.
Week 8: Non-Dual Compassion We close with compassion beyond the divide of self and other. This is where compassion and wisdom meet — and where, the tradition says, real freedom from suffering becomes possible.
Investment: $125
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