Thupten Jinpa, PhD
Practicing Compassion: The Strength of a "Trembling Heart"
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What You'll Learn
Hear Jinpa’s unique perspective on the strengths and limitations of western and eastern approaches to emotions, and how we can benefit from both of them
Receive an introduction to compassion training and learn why compassion is traditionally said to benefit the giver as much as the receiver by increasing your sense of joy, energy, and purpose
Be led in a guided practice to help you tap into your deepest compassionate intention, recognize our common humanity, and bring this energy into your everyday life
About Thupten Jinpa, PhD
Thupten Jinpa, Ph.D has been the principal English translator to His Holiness the Dalai Lama since 1985, and has translated and collaborated on numerous books by the Dalai Lama. His own publications include A Fearless Heart: How the Courage to be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives and translations of major Tibetan works. Jinpa serves as an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University and is the founder and president of the Institute of Tibetan Classics. Jinpa is the principal author of Compassion Cultivation Training™ (CCT©) developed while at Stanford University in 2009, and now disseminated through the Compassion Institute, which he co-founded in 2017. Jinpa was trained as a monk at the Shartse College of Ganden Monastic University, and also holds a B.A. in philosophy and a Ph.D. in religious studies from Cambridge University. He has been a core member of the Mind and Life Institute and its Chairman of the Board since January 2012.
Thanking everyone for making this possible, I fell asleep with the compassion meditation but I have got the message and I am going to set a new habit : start the day with an intention and end the day with looking back for synergies. Greetings from the Netherlands!
Hello from Scotland, and thank you thank you! Loved this talk and thanks so much for putting on this amazing summit. 🙏
Thank you só much!!
With love from The Netherlands
İt was great thank u
How would you define difference between Aspirations & Intentions?
It’s a blessing all the knowledge that Thupten Jinpa shared.
Enjoyed this session immensely. It was reaffirming of my current practice and shone light on how I can enhance it Thanks from Canada.
Your practice really gave me inner peace, it was beautiful. Thank you!
Thank you very much for sharing with me (us) your personal experience, Thupten Jinpa! And many thanks for your life activities!
I wish you, happiness, healthy life and good fortune in Life!
Hello for Italy. Thanks Thanks thanks
Dr. Thupten Jinpa, you bring so much warmth to the practices with so much hope for their intentions and our aspirations that we could feel the growing awareness and how it loops back to the benefit us all. Much appreciated, kansha kansha.
Hello from England. I am so impressed by Thupden Jinpa, his clarity, his gentleness, deep wisdom and compassion shine through his words and his expression. Thank you so much for creating this event so that those like me can access such teachings. Thank you.
Paola, Italy. So grateful to be part of this summit 🙂
Nameste. I am from India.Thank you Dr. Thupten Jinpa for your wonderful overview about compassion and Loving Kindness. your guided meditation process is very useful to bring Awareness. Intention setting and aspirations for an Individual. I have read his Book Fearless Heart. I am happy to reinforce my Mindfulness practice through his session today. Thank you Science and wisdom Mind Summit.
I love your talks and find a real connection to the way you present your thoughts on the matter of emotions. thank you so much for your personal offering.
Lodro Satso, aka Sharon Kennedy
Thank you for your experience and sharing it with us. I will practice this everyday and hope that improves my actions as I progress.
Thank you very much Thupten Jinpa for sharing your session with me. Such a blessing . I would like to make this part of my daily practice.
I wish we had more than 48 hrs to really take in this summit. Many subjects I am interested in.
I am enjoying being part of this Summit so much. What a great feeling to share the values within the community with this level of awareness and mindfulness! Thanks a lot! Enormous gratitude coming all way from Russia.
Wonderful!
Dr .Thupten Jimpa , I am so much touched by your words,your deep wisdom.Thank you for being in
my life.My country’s sun light joined the light of your wisdom and I feel happy !
Just watched Thupten Jinpa’s lecture, and it touched me a lot. Thank you very much. Also to all the speakers.
Thank you very much for sharing these teachings! It was very inspiring and beautiful! 🙏
I thank you for this. I wept tears of humility, gratitude, and hope as I joined many others in this meditation.
Thank you so much, Dr. Jinpa. Your presentation was excellent – enlightening, simple and challenging to put into practice. I hope to listen to it again before the sessions end.
Thank you. I feel blessed to have listened to your message and to have meditated with you.
Greetings from Ocala, Florida, USA. Love Thupten Jinpa’s exercise of compassion and setting intentions. Thank you for this conference. All of the speakers have been full of wisdom and joy!
Thank you for the wonderful session. Hope to start with intention setting from tomorrow. Enriching session which will really help people who facing difficult siruation in this pandemic.
From Barbara Winchester UK.Thank you so much for inspiration. It has enriched my day.
Thank you for all your wisdom and loving kindness Greetings from Germany
HI/Tashi Delek, Geshe Jinpa la, from Tara Dhar, the INDIAN Tara in Singapore! I really enjoyed this talk, and the deeply moving practice session. It will stay with me for a long time. You were so clear, and so inspirational.
I thoroughly enjoyed this practical session, especially the exercise of setting intentions. I practice this in my yoga class but you have given this practice more meaning. Thank you
A really very interesting presentation about emotions! Thank you!
Thank you. This was so heart felt and specially feeling a physical extension as you spoke of extending intention from our loved ones to the greater circle of humanity It was palpable and still lingers. I hope to repeat in future meditations thank you again from California
thank you for bringing this light to our souls, from Brazil
I really loved this session. Thank you!!! Melina from Buenos Aires
Wonderful!!! Thank you, so much
Thank you Dr. Thupten Jinpa for sharing your wisdom, your kind generous heart shone through. Derval from Ireland.
it resembles so much with an ancient practice called Yognidra in Yoga….just loved it
Elisa from Boston area here. I have experienced much of what he describes here. The self absorbed nature of being troubled, suffering, the remedy of focusing instead on others, helping, reaching out to the lonely. Feeling compassion for others bringing me out of my darkness (tho not always, empathyalone can make me sadder at times, depending on the person!) Also doing things to evoke gratitude. This video is such a clear, understandable & concise explanation of such life-shifting truths. Thank you!
This was amazing! Many thanks from Brandon, Manitoba, Canada.
Thank you!!!
Having this opportunity for heart mind connection with others through teachings on compassion from Junpa’s experience and wisdom enables us all to move closer to aspirations for practice of the dharma. A deep bow.
From Shirley in Utah’s mountain corridor.
Dr Jinpa’s session was so enlightening and familiar at the same time. Just allowing a space to set intention points us in the direction of compassion naturally as human beings. So profound in its simplicity, beautifully presented. Thank you so very much! What a blessing.
Gracias!!Gracias!!Gracias!!! Infinita compasión
So wonderful to see and hear you here Thubten la. Thuk je che
Thank you for an excellent presentation. I was surprised to learn my aspirations for the world. Just becoming aware of them had an immediate impact on my view of current projects and plans. Very humbling. Thank you!
Thank you so much for your practical point of intention setting practice, from Songkhla Thailand.
Always a joy to spend dedicated time in the presence of Thupten Jinpa cultivating compassion. Open hearts, open minds. Transforming the human experience.
I seriously loved this! You speak straight from the heart. I felt very at-ease. Such a thoughtful, kind, conscientious speaker. Thank-you for your words of wisdom 🙂
Really loved the simplicity of this, thankyou