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This five-course-series provides a thorough exploration of core Buddhist teachings, drawing on teachings from prominent teachers and classic Buddhist sources. If you have ever wondered “what Buddhism is all about» or feel like you need a refresher on the key teachings, this is the course for you!

The Hinayana path is where every Buddhist practitioner begins. It is based on the mindfulness and awareness training of meditation as well as many other core Buddhist principles and teachings, como: The Four Noble Truths, Las cuatro marcas de la existencia, maitrí (friendliness to oneself), Karma, Los Cinco Skandhas, Los cuatro fundamentos de la atención plena, and many more foundational teachings of the Buddha that are the heart the Buddhist practitioner’s path.

Explore these recorded sessions at your own pace to find more contentment and joy and to discover the freedom you can have from anxiety, depresión, agitación, and fear. There are no live sessions, so you will receive all course materials upon registration and can take this course from the comfort of your own home, on your own schedule.

Benefits of the Course

• A través de la práctica de la meditación., experience the present moment of everyday life just as it is
• Develop more contentment and joy and live with greater clarity and compassion
• Begin to understand the cause of your anxiety, depresión, and fear and how you can be free from it
• Develop more friendliness to yourself, allowing you to meet the challenges of daily life with bravery and dignity
• Cultivate having a more open heart – both to yourself and others

The registration fee for this course series is $399. While this may be a large upfront investment, you will receive multiple talks on each topic from some of Shambhala’s most treasured teachers, while gaining insight and tools to last a lifetime.

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One of the most foundational Buddhist teachings, “The Four Noble Truths”, is used as the overall organizing principle for this course and is threaded throughout each session.

The Four Noble Truths are: 

• The Truth of Suffering (we all experience ongoing anxiety, miedo, depresión, dolor)
• The Truth of the Cause of Suffering (there is a reason why we experience our experience as suffering – ansiedad, miedo, dolor, depresión, etc.)
• The Truth of the Cessation of Suffering (it is actually possible to end our anxiety, miedo, depression and other forms of suffering)
• The Truth of the Path to the Cessation of Suffering (there is an actual path to follow where we learn the tools and methods for how we no longer need to experience anxiety, miedo, depresión, y otras formas de sufrimiento)

Curso I – La primera noble verdad: Encuentro con el Sufrimiento con Maitri

This first section of the 5-part course offers an exploration of the nature of suffering (the anxiety, depresión, and fear we work with every day) from the perspective of another foundational Buddhist teaching – the Four Marks of Existence.

The Four Marks of Existence are: Impermanencia, Sufrimiento, Selflessness, and Peace, and we learn how we can meet our anxiety, depression and other forms of suffering with maitri – a sanskrit word for “unconditional friendliness.» The teachers also guide students in the exploration and practice of Mindfulness of Body, el primero de los cuatro fundamentos del mindfulness – yet another core Buddhist teaching.

En sus primeras enseñanzas, the Buddha taught that the suffering, ansiedad, depresión, and fear of everyday existence is the First Noble Truth. Such underlying agitation and suffering is changing and impermanent, and it arises from infinite causes and conditions. Sin embargo, it feels intensely personal (“mine”), y, En realidad, es una de las bases que utilizamos para construir nuestra identidad (“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. Cuando reconocemos estas simples verdades de la existencia, impermanencia, sufrimiento, and the absence of a “true self such as we perceive it,» podemos experimentar la paz del nirvana – and much more contentment and joy.

Profesores: Susan Chapman y Fleet Maull

Curso II – La segunda noble verdad: El origen del sufrimiento, Parte I – los cinco skandas

Instructions in the Four Foundations of Mindfulness are interwoven with the teaching of The Four Noble Truths and provide a meditative method for embracing the totality of our basically good experience – which can include holding our anxiety, dolor, miedo, and suffering with unconditional friendliness for ourselves, o maitrí.

Having recognized the truth of anxiety, miedo, and suffering in our everyday life and the confusion that is also so often pervasive, naturalmente tenemos preguntas. How does this state of seemingly constant anxiety, abrumar, miedo, and suffering arise?  Where does this confusion come from? In this in-depth exploration of another foundational Buddhist teaching – “The Five Skandhas” – tocaremos estas capas o constelaciones de experiencia una por una, partiendo de lo incondicionado, terreno innato de espacio abierto, and see how we create our own world of projections. Through this exploration we can uncover what is real and begin to tune into more contentment and joy.

Profesores: Dale Asrael y John Rockwell

Curso III – La segunda noble verdad: El origen del sufrimiento, Parte II – La rueda de la vida, Karma, y las Doce Nidanas

The foundational teachings of the Buddha indicate that the anxiety, miedo, depresión, and other forms of suffering we experience in our lives can end if we recognize, profunda y profundamente, como ha surgido ese sufrimiento. Esto requiere valentía suave y contemplación profunda., and means we must be willing to go beyond any previous simplified ideas about how and why our anxiety, fears and suffering have arisen.

Profesores: Gelong Loden Nyima and Judith Simmer-Brown

Curso IV – La Tercera Noble Verdad: Libertad del Sufrimiento

Contemplating that anxiety, miedo, depression and other forms of suffering can indeed end – that this is actually possible – we first see the possibility and accessibility of the third noble truth as the “gap.» We are basically good and innately worthy human beings. Darse cuenta de que esto es cierto es así de simple, y estamos vislumbrando esto todo el tiempo. This can free us from our anxiety, miedo, and depression, and leads to freedom.

Profesores: Suzann Duquette and Daniel Hessey

Curso V – La Cuarta Noble Verdad: El Camino de Shila, samadhi, y Prajña

We have been studying the Buddha’s first teaching: The Four Noble Truths. After teaching that anxiety, depresión, miedo, and other forms of suffering are pervasive to all experience, that there is a cause to that suffering and that the end of that suffering is possible, luego enseñó un camino a seguir, que llamamos "El Camino". De hecho, everything the Buddha taught and all of our experience as practitioners are “The Path.” En este curso, we will examine this notion of “The Path” from multiple perspectives of what has been taught by the Buddha and what is experienced by us as individuals walking this beautiful and profound path of transformation.

Profesores: Marianne Bots y Eric Spiegel