Why Compassion Doesn't Do It For Me

In Praise of Big Open Heartedness

Hi y’all,

Lately I’ve been thinking about big open heartedness. I heard this term recently in a talk by a Dzogchen teacher, Lama Lena. She uses big open heartedness as a way to describe the Sanskrit Buddhist term, bodhichitta, which literally translates to “awakened mind.”

But like the best words, bodhichitta evades translation. It feels like the kind o…