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Becoming Familiar with Your Mind: Meditation Series

This first of a series of three meditation courses starts in January and offers instruction on Shamata,, or calm abiding meditation. The class is designed to help beginners establish an ongoing meditation practice. It includes basic meditation instruction such as posture and breathing as well as guided meditation. Discussion focuses on getting to know your mind and how to work with thoughts and emotions from a Buddhist point of view.

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Book Discussion: Wild Awakening

In Wild Awakening, Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche presents the heart essence of two great practice traditions – Mahamudra and Dzogchen. Please join Kris Shaw as he helps students explore and discuss the clear and concise writings by Rinpoche about these two great traditions. The Dalai Lama writes in the foreword: “His thorough account of these marvelous traditions will be a valuable source of inspiration and clarity to many readers.”

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Sunday Open Meditation with teachings by Mitra Tyler Dewar

Please join us for a series of Sunday teachings offered by Mitra Dean Tyler Dewar in November. We begin the morning with shamatha (calm abiding) meditation from 10-11 a.m. in the Mahabodhi Shrine Room, followed by a teaching (both on-site and on Zoom) on the Seven Points of Training the Mind, a much-loved and much-relied-on text from the tradition of the great Indian master Atisha Dipamkara..

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Introduction to Buddhism 102: Traveling from Confusion to Original Sanity

Introduction to Buddhism is a cycle of teachings based on the fundamental discoveries of the Buddha. What is mind? How do we understand reality? How can we reduce the suffering of ourselves and other beings? This second course in the free series is based on the original teachings of the Buddha and lays the foundation for understanding major Buddhist philosophical traditions.

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Life Release Practice in Taipei & Hong Kong

Freeing sentient beings who otherwise would die due to human activity is taught to increase the merit of those who are on a dharma path. During Tara Drupchen we will partner with our sister sanghas in Asia to offer this practice. Those in the Pacific time zone may pause at 2 p.m. Saturday Sept. 23 and at 1 a.m. Sunday Sept. 24, and make the aspiration that all beings be free and enjoy favorable conditions on their path to enlightenment.

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Mahayana 303: Not Even a Middle

This is the third in a six-course series, exploring how Nagarjuna explained the Buddha’s teaching from a logical perspective. It describes the development of the Madhyamaka philosophical school in India and Tibet and explores the definitions of the two truths and the five great Madhyamaka reasonings.

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