Opening the Heart, Ayya Medhanandi

About this episode

Ayya Medhanandi discusses the importance of opening the heart to achieve inner peace and compassion.

Though we feel powerless to change the state of the world, we can change our own minds. We can open to peace here within us. Regardless of our vacillating moods or reactions, awareness is ever present. So staying present and aware, learn to trust. Forgiving fears or doubts, let them go. By persevering with kindness, wholesome intentions and thoughts, we come to understand ourselves and each other. We see the empty, impermanent qualities of all things – and their suffering nature. Knowing our true spiritual strength in awareness and the moral fibre of our humanity, the heart opens to profound peace and unshakeable compassion.

People in this episode

Guest: Ayya Medhanandi

Topics covered

• mindfulness
• compassion
• self-awareness
• forgiveness
• spiritual strength

Keywords

• peace
• awareness
• kindness
• impermanence
• suffering

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