Coming to the Heart

Published: April 24, 2022, 5:09 p.m.

We may think that happiness is found when we're able to come into pleasant emotional states.\xa0 But the teachings of the Buddha suggest a happiness greater than the happiness that emotional states offer:\xa0 the happiness of the heart.\xa0 In this talk, Peter Doobinin describes how the dharma student learns to cultivate disenchantment with emotions and, in turn, turns to the the heart.\xa0 The talk was given in December 2021.\nAs a mother would risk her lifeto protect her child, her only child,even so should one cultivate a limitless heartwith regard to all beings.(Sn 1.8)