Himalayan Compassion Meditation / Visualization

IEC Conference: 2025-pending

Nurture greater compassion in your mind, life, and the world with this classic meditation, visualization, and mantra. This powerfully transformative Himalayan Buddhist practice is beloved as the central practice for millions of people in the Himalayan region. It is also safe, useful, and easy to do in any context. As part of growing compassion, this meditation targets transforming universal toxic mental patterns into virtues, as follows:

Transforming pride into mental stability;
Transforming jealousy into patience;
Transforming ignorance, doubt, and desire into ethics and morality;
Transforming dullness into diligence;</>
Transforming clinging into generosity;
Transforming anger into wisdom.

Notably, Chenrezig, the bodhisattva (Buddhist deity) that the practice reveres, transcends gender. S/he appears in male forms, such as Avalokiteshvara in India and Chenrezig in Tibet, as well as female forms like Kwan Yin in China and Kannon in Japan.

Format: MORNING PRACTICE
Presentation category: Consciousness, creative visualization, GENDER, mind training, SPIRITUALITY, TECHNOLOGY, WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP, world peace

PAWASARAT, Catherine

Canada / United States

U.S.-born Catherine Pawasarat practiced the ayahuasca sacrament in the 1990s, while working as a photojournalist specializing in environmental and human rights. For 20 years she lived in Kyoto, where she met Buddhist teacher Achariya Qapel in 1998. She trained daily with him in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that’s rare in the modern West.

In 2004 Qapel and Cata co-founded the Clear Sky Retreat Center in British Columbia, Canada. There Cata has co-cultivated an innovative, generative organization with conscious community. Together Qapel and Cata have also taught virtually through Planet Dharma. Clear Sky and Planet Dharma have evolved as living labs supporting community movement through Integral stage development together, including experiments with group guru.

An expert in traditional Japanese culture, Cata advocates for the spiritually transformative and generative nature of Kyoto’s ancient Shinto Gion Festival. She also teaches about the unique roles of Women in Buddhism.

https://www.planetdharma.com