Literature Circle: In Praise of Great Compassion by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

When: Tuesdays, 7:00 – 8:30 pm ET, from April 15th, 2025

Join our literature circle based on the volumes of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Library of Wisdom and Compassion. Edited by Venerable Thubten Chodron specifically for a modern Western audience. We will be reading ‘In Praise of Great Compassion’ (Volume 5)’. Everyone is welcome.

Here is the description of this book, as given by the publisher, Wisdom Experience:

…this volume concerns opening our hearts and generating the intention to make our lives meaningful by benefiting others.

We are embedded in a universe with other living beings, all of whom have been kind to us in one way or another. More than any other time in human history, we depend on one another to stay alive and flourish. When we look closely, it becomes apparent that we have been the recipient of great kindness. Wanting to repay others’ kindness, we cultivate a positive attitude by contemplating the four immeasurables of love, compassion, empathic joy, and equanimity, and the altruistic intention of bodhicitta. We learn to challenge the self-centered attitude that leads to misery and replace it with a more realistic perspective enabling us to remain emotionally balanced in good and bad times. In this way, all circumstances become favorable to the path to awakening.

This group discussion is led online by Dave Gould.

Please register to attend on Zoom.

Purchase the e-book or physical book from the publisher or a bookstore such as Indigo

As a discussion group, it is useful to bring discussion questions to the gathering. Listen to Audrey on how to bring good questions to the gathering.

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