TUESDAY ONLINE MEDITATION COURSE
The Way of the Buddha—Meditation & Insight
SEMESTER TWO
Transforming Suffering into Compassion—Insight, Egolessness and Buddha Nature
An Online Meditation Course Via Zoom
12 Tuesdays; April 7 - June 23, 2020 (6:30 - 9 PM ET)
SCHEDULE:
6:30 – 7:30 PM ET: Guided Sitting and Walking Meditation;
7:30 - 9 PM ET: Talk and Discussion. Scroll down for the weekly topics.
Led by John Baker, Barry Cunningham and Laura Read
Suggested donation: $120 or $10 per session*
A sourcebook of readings will be provided digitally free of charge to those who register for the semester and is available for $10** to those who drop-in.
HOW TO JOIN: All Zoom meetings links have been consolidated into a password-protected page.
Go to this page to fill out a form to retrieve this password.
If you know the password already, you can go to this page. Then scroll down the page to locate the meeting link for the course
Click here to instructions on how to use Zoom. Then go to this page to fill out a form to access the meeting ID and link to the Zoom meeting.
Drop-ins welcome; All classes will be recorded and available online for those not able to attend each class
Suggested Donation: $120 ($10 per session)*
A sourcebook of readings will be provided digitally free of charge to those who register for the semester and is available for $10 to those who drop-in.
Register here before class to receive the sourcebook and access to the Zoom meeting link.
Please pre-register to receive the sourcebook and Zoom meeting link before class
HOW TO JOIN THE ZOOM MEETING
Go to this page and follow the instructions.
ABOUT THE COURSE
“The Way of the Buddha—Meditation and Insight” is a year-long course in 3 semesters (Winter 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2020).
This course series is an exploration of the path of mindfulness-awareness meditation and insight as originally described by the Buddha and skillfully transmitted to the West by one of the great Tibetan masters of our time, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. We will cover such topics as the life of the Buddha, the birth of confusion and suffering, meditation and the path back to sanity, the techniques and stages of meditation, and bringing meditation into our daily lives. Readings from the works of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and others.
Join us for Semester 2: Transforming Suffering into Compassion—Insight, Egolessness and Buddha Nature, an exploration of the path of mindfulness-awareness meditation and insight, as originally described by the Buddha and skillfully transmitted to the West by one of the great Tibetan masters of our time, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
This semester, we will cover topics fundamental to the Buddhist teachings such as the Four Noble Truths and Noble Eightfold Path, the Three Yana Path, the Buddhist Refuge, and the Bodhisattva Path of Compassion, focusing, as always, on the techniques and stages of meditation and bringing meditation into our daily lives.
All sessions begin with group meditation, and instruction is offered in a separate ZOOM room for those who wish it. Students may enroll for one semester or attend individual classes on a “drop-in” basis.
The Suggested offering for this 12-week semester is $120 or $10 per session.
A sourcebook of readings will be provided digitally free of charge to those who register for the semester and is available for $10 to those who drop-in.
If you have questions about the course, fill out the form below
Weekly Course Topics:
April 7: Suffering and Other Compelling Facts about Life
April 14: The Structure of Ego
April 21: Discipline, Egolessness and Joy
April 28: Four Noble Truths, Eightfold Noble Path and the Three Wheels of Dharma
May 5: Change of Attitude, Mark, Name: Taking Refuge in The Three Jewels
May 12: Three Yana Path and the Entry into the Mahayana, the Open Way
May 19: Discovering that Buddha Nature is Compassion
May 26: Compassion
June 2: Cultivating the Heart of Wakefulness
June 9: Cultivating the Spirit of Enlightenment
June 16: Prajna and Skillful Activity
June 23: The Role of the Spiritual Friend
AUDIO RECORDINGS
Missed a class? or want to listen to the class again? Audio recordings of the class will be posted weekly.
ABOUT THE TEACHER
A close student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, course instructor John Baker has been a practitioner and teacher of Buddhism for 49 years. He co-founded the Karma Dzong Meditation Center in Boulder, Colorado in 1970, serving for five years as its first co-director. He also co-founded Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, serving as its first CEO and heading the Buddhist Studies Department there for its first five years. He co-edited Trungpa’s Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism and The Myth of Freedom and is the author of various articles. After 23 years in private business, he retired, continuing to teach Buddhist thought and meditation and is today co-founder and a principal teacher at the Westchester Buddhist Center in Irvington and the New York Buddha Dharma Center in Manhattan. More >
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