Les fondements de la liberté: The Hinayana Five-Course-Series
This course is a five-course-series that provides a thorough exploration of the Hinayana path drawing on teachings from prominent teachers and classic sources. L'accent est mis sur la culture du maitri ou de la convivialité envers soi-même, et sur les enseignements Shambhala de la bonté fondamentale, gentleness and bravery – allowing us to meet the modern human condition with warriorship and dignity.
Fondements de la liberté: Parties I – V
Le Hinayana, Course I – The First Noble Truth: Rencontrer la souffrance avec Maitri
This course offers an exploration of the nature of suffering from the perspective of the Four Marks of Existence: Impermanence, Souffrance, Selflessness and Peace – and how we can meet suffering with maitri, or unconditional friendliness. The teachers will also guide students in the exploration and practice of Mindfulness of Body, the first of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness.
Dans ses premiers enseignements, the Buddha taught that the suffering of samsaric existence is the first noble truth. Such suffering is changing and impermanent, and arises from infinite causes and conditions. It feels intensely personal (mine), and in fact, est l'une des bases que nous utilisons pour forger notre identité (me and my problems), which is called “mistaking what has no self for a self.” This state of mind generates constant underlying fear and anxiety. Quand nous reconnaissons ces simples vérités de l'existence, impermanence, souffrance, and the absence of a true self, nous pouvons expérimenter la paix du nirvana.
Enseignants: Susan Chapman et Fleet Maull
Le Hinayana, Course II – The Second Noble Truth: L'origine de la souffrance, Part I – The Five Skandas
The Four Noble Truths are used as the overall organizing principle. Instructions in the Four Foundations of Mindfulness are interwoven and provide a meditative method for embracing the totality of our basically good experience—including pain and suffering.
Course II – Having recognized the truth of suffering and the confusion that is pervasive in our life, nous avons naturellement des questions. How does this state of suffering arise? Where does confusion come from? Dans cette exploration approfondie des Cinq Skandhas, nous toucherons ces couches ou constellations d'expérience une par une, à partir de l'inconditionné, terrain inné d'espace ouvert, and see how we fabricate our own world of projections.
Enseignants: Dale Asrael et John Rockwell
Le Hinayana, Course III – The Second Noble Truth: L'origine de la souffrance, Part II – The The Wheel of Life, Karma, et les Douze Nidanas
The Four Noble Truths are used as the overall organizing principle. Instructions in the Four Foundations of Mindfulness are interwoven and provide a meditative method for embracing the totality of our basically good experience—including pain and suffering.
Course III – The foundational teachings of the Buddha indicate that the suffering we experience in our lives can come to cessation if we recognize, profondément et profondément, comment cette souffrance est apparue. Cela demande une douce bravoure et une profonde contemplation, bypassing simplistic notions of how our suffering has arisen.
Enseignants: Loden Nyima and Judith Simmer-Brown
Le Hinayana, Course IV – The Third Noble Truth: Se libérer de la souffrance
The Four Noble Truths are used as the overall organizing principle. Instructions in the Four Foundations of Mindfulness are interwoven and provide a meditative method for embracing the totality of our basically good experience—including pain and suffering.
Course IV – Contemplating the cessation of suffering, nous voyons d'abord l'accessibilité de la troisième noble vérité comme l'écart. Nous sommes fondamentalement bons. Réaliser que c'est vrai est aussi simple que cela, et nous entrevoyons cela tout le temps.
Enseignants: Suzann Duquette and Dan Hessey
Le Hinayana, Course V – The Fourth Noble Truth: Le chemin de Shila, Samadhi, et Prajna
The Four Noble Truths are used as the overall organizing principle. Instructions in the Four Foundations of Mindfulness are interwoven and provide a meditative method for embracing the totality of our basically good experience—including pain and suffering.
Course V – We have been studying the Buddha’s first teaching: The Four Noble Truths. After teaching that suffering is pervasive to all experience, that there is a cause to that suffering and that cessation is possible, il a ensuite enseigné la voie à suivre, que nous appelons « Le Chemin ». En fait, everything he taught and all of our experience as practitioners comprise “The Path.” In this course, we will examine Path from multiple perspectives of what has been taught and what is experienced by us individuals walking this path.