Sobre o curso

Este curso faz parte de uma série de cinco cursos que oferece uma exploração completa do caminho Hinayana com base nos ensinamentos de professores proeminentes e fontes clássicas.. A ênfase está em cultivar maitri ou amizade consigo mesmo, e nos ensinamentos de Shambhala sobre bondade básica, gentileza e coragem – permitindo-nos enfrentar a condição humana moderna com guerreiro e dignidade.

As Quatro Nobres Verdades são usadas como o princípio organizador geral. As instruções dos Quatro Fundamentos da Atenção Plena estão interligadas e fornecem um método meditativo para abraçar a totalidade da nossa experiência basicamente boa.—incluindo dor e sofrimento.

Curso II – Tendo reconhecido a verdade do sofrimento e da confusão que permeia a nossa vida, nós naturalmente temos perguntas. Como surge esse estado de sofrimento?  De onde vem a confusão?  Nesta exploração aprofundada dos Cinco Skandhas, tocaremos essas camadas ou constelações de experiência, uma por uma, starting from the unconditioned, innate ground of open space, and see how we fabricate our own world of projections.

Sobre os professores

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. Em 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. Desta maneira, 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, in the M.A. estudos budistas, Contemplative Education, and Counseling programs, and is an Upadhyaya(Buddhist minister). 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.”

John Rockwellestá no caminho do dharma há 47 anos. Ele conheceu Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche em 1975 e estudou e praticou os ensinamentos budistas e de Shambhala por 12 anos com ele, e, em particular, trabalhou com ele na tradução de textos tibetanos para o inglês. Por dez anos, ele estudou e lecionou na Universidade Naropa no departamento de Estudos Budistas. Por muitos anos, ele serviu como acharya ou professor sênior de Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche e também estudou intensamente com Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche. Sua inspiração agora é abrir o coração e os sentidos na hora.