KINDNESS MIND

A short four week course exploring how Buddhism understands and addresses our failure to manifest our innate kindness. We do not all find ourselves to be in the same place all the time. Buddhism, as a religion of method, addresses this flux in our experience of being by providing different approaches to practice, known as ‘yanas’. The word yana means ‘vehicle’ a coherent system of theory and practice that transports one from a base via a path to a particular result. Compassion is the central theme in each of the nine yanas which can be viewed as a developmental psychology that makes sense of every stage of spiritual growth. Each of the Sutric vehicles and the six classes of Tantra expresses compassion - or appreciative interactive empathy - according to progressively more subtle and vivid criteria. We find that the compassion we begin by cultivating in Sutra is none other than the innate energy of the natural state we discover in the innermost Tantras.