Understanding the mind and mental activity is crucial for balancing our sensitivity as it enables us to tap the naturally occurring internal resources of our mind and heart.

To dispel our hypersensitive response, we need to deconstruct the deceptive appearances of our mind.

To become more properly sensitive to others or to ourselves, we need to strengthen or to change the operating level of certain mental factors that are already present.

Disturbing emotions also arise from projecting and believing in deceptive appearances, especially dualistic ones.

The aim of Dr. Berzin’s book “Developing Balanced Sensitivity” and the corresponding program is to develop a balanced type of sensitivity, a sensitivity that is healthy, helpful, and avoids the two extremes of being oversensitive and being insensitive.

A guideline to the basic approaches, skills, procedures and orders of the practices that will lead to our progress.

The Balanced Sensitivity program and its exercises aim to serve as a bridge between traditional Buddhist thinking and methods and the emotional problems we all experience and conceptualize in a Western way.

Recommended initial and concluding procedures for each training session as well as for each exercise.

An overview of the intellectual, emotional, and devotional approaches to Dharma.

Bare Cognition The ways of knowing that take as their appearing objects objective entities and metaphysical entities are, respectively, bare cognition and conceptual cognition. According to the Sautrantika explanation, all validly knowable phenomena are either objective...