Part 3 - Metaphors for Compassion with Ajahn Kovilo: Karuna Virus Retreat with Clear Mountain
Channel: Clear Mountain Monastery
Date: 2022-01-11

Part 3 of the Saturday January 8, 2022 Clear Mountain Monastery  "Karuna-Virus Daylong Retreat: A Cure for Feeling Socially-Distanced." In this session, Ajahn Kovilo presents four meditative metaphors relating to applying compassion (Karuna) in daily life: being like the great earth; being like the Ganges River; being like empty space; being like a cat-skin bag.

In this time of pandemic, isolation, and fear, we must turn increasingly to the sense of connection and spaciousness provided by mettā, or goodwill. The Buddha’s teachings on the four “divine abodes” of loving-kindness, compassion, rejoicing, and equanimity provide a path towards just such strength of heart. However contagious the coronavirus has proven, karuna, the Buddhist term for compassion, transfers even more easily.

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Tune in with fellow practitioners every Wednesday evening from 6 - 6:45 pm or Saturday morning from 9:30 - 11 am for a Dhamma Talk and Q&A with Ajahn Kovilo or Tan Nisabho. Saturday mornings begin with a thirty-minute meditation. Wednesday evening Q&A's are followed by a discussion on Zoom from 6:45 - 7:30 pm. See https://www.clearmountainmonastery.org/ for details. Welcome!