Informazioni sul corso

This course is part of a five-course-series that provides a thorough exploration of the Hinayana path drawing on teachings from prominent teachers and classic sources. L'enfasi è sulla coltivazione di maitri o amicizia con se stessi, e sugli insegnamenti Shambhala della bontà fondamentale, gentilezza e coraggio – allowing us to meet the modern human condition with warriorship and dignity.

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.

Corso II – Aver riconosciuto la verità della sofferenza e della confusione che pervade la nostra vita, naturalmente abbiamo delle domande. How does this state of suffering arise?  Where does confusion come from?  In questa esplorazione approfondita dei Cinque Skandha, toccheremo questi strati o costellazioni di esperienza uno per uno, starting from the unconditioned, innate ground of open space, and see how we fabricate our own world of projections.

A proposito degli insegnanti

Dale Asrael, growing up in a suburb of Washington, DC, studied music and dance and, even as a young child, ruthlessly searched for answers. Through her Jewish ancestry, she learned to celebrate the sacredness of life and, simultaneously be aware of the depth of human suffering. After completing university studies in film and Eastern religions, Dale moved to Canada in 1970, disheartened by the Vietnam War. Shortly after she took Refuge Vows at the Kagyü Center in Vancouver, British Columbia, Dale heard reports of a “revolutionary young lama” who was teaching about chaos and wisdom. She journeyed to Boulder to meet him, and during her first interview with the Vidyadhara in 1973, realized she was “being given answers to questions I hadn’t even begun to articulate.” Dale attended the first session of Naropa Institute in 1974 and the first public dathün at Rocky Mountain Dharma Center (now Drala Mountain Center) that same summer. An early member of the Kootenay Dharma Study Group, she spent the next six years traveling from B.C. to Boulder to attend programs with Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. During that time, she completed university studies in Education and became a music teacher in the British Columbia public schools. Dale attended the 1978 Vajradhatu Seminary, a program remembered for Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s regular gatherings for post-talk singing in the hotel lounge. In 1979, she moved to Boulder to study intensively with the Vidyadhara. She taught music at the Buddhist-inspired Vidya School for five years. At Trungpa Rinpoche’s request, she moved to Rocky Mountain Dharma Center (now Drala Mountain Center) to serve as Head of Practice and Study from 1985-1990. In that role, she had the inexpressible good fortune of working closely with Chögyam Trungpa Rinpcohe during his last two Seminaries. Upon returning to Boulder, CO. to live, Dale was able to return to Drala Mountain Center every summer to teach at the Seminaries. In questo modo, she began to work closely with Sakyong Mipham, Rinpoche and to learn deeply from his stream of teachings. Dale has taught as Core Faculty at Naropa University since 1992, nel M.A. Studi buddisti, Educazione contemplativa, and Counseling programs, and is an Upadhyaya(Ministro buddista). She leads meditation retreats, dathuns (month long meditation retreats), Sutrayana Seminaries, Ngondro Instructor trainings, and other programs internationally. “I am continually humbled by studying and practicing the profound teachings of our lineages. The more I learn, the more I realize the incredible good fortune we share.”

Giovanni Rockwellè stato sul sentiero del dharma per 47 anni. Ha incontrato Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche nel 1975 e ha studiato e praticato gli insegnamenti buddisti e Shambhala 12 anni con lui, e in particolare collaborò con lui alla traduzione dei testi tibetani in inglese. Per dieci anni, ha studiato e insegnato alla Naropa University nel dipartimento di Studi Buddisti. Per molti anni, ha servito come acharya o insegnante senior per Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche e ha anche studiato intensamente con Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche. La sua ispirazione ora è aprire il cuore e i sensi sul posto.