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Written by Dr. Terry Chitwood

Softening the Heart

Chogyam Trungpa, a Tibetan Buddhist teacher, wrote about tenderizing the heart. “Trungpa taught the Buddhist practice of bodhicitta, or awakened heart. His own term for awakened heart was ‘the genuine heart of sadness,’ which he explained as a natural and beautiful condition, the result of staying open to the full experience of life” (The Seeker’s […]

Filed Under: Music, Transforming Wounds into Words, Writing Tagged: Bright Star, Chogyam Trungpa, Desert Fathers, Draw Me Close, John Keats, Michael W. Smith, poetry, softening the heart

April 21, 2011

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