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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, такой как: The Four Noble Truths, Четыре признака существования, Майтри (friendliness to oneself), Карма, Пять скандх, Четыре основы осознанности, 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, депрессия, волнение, 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

• Через практику медитации, 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, депрессия, 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.

Breakdown of Five-Course Series

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, страх, депрессия, боль)
• The Truth of the Cause of Suffering (there is a reason why we experience our experience as suffering – беспокойство, страх, боль, депрессия, и т. д.)
• The Truth of the Cessation of Suffering (it is actually possible to end our anxiety, страх, 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, страх, депрессия, and other forms of suffering)

Конечно я – Первая благородная истина: Встреча Страдания с Майтри

This first section of the 5-part course offers an exploration of the nature of suffering (the anxiety, депрессия, 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: непостоянство, Страдания, Самоотверженность, 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, первая из четырех основ осознанности – yet another core Buddhist teaching.

In his earliest teachings, the Buddha taught that the suffering, беспокойство, депрессия, 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. Однако, it feels intensely personal (“mine”), и, фактически, это одна из основ, которые мы используем для создания нашей идентичности (“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. When we recognize these simple truths of existence, impermanence, страдания, and the absence of a “true self such as we perceive it,” мы можем испытать покой нирваны – and much more contentment and joy.

Учителя: Susan Chapman and Fleet Maull

Курс 2 – Вторая благородная истина: Происхождение страдания, Часть I – Пять сканд

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, боль, страх, and suffering with unconditional friendliness for ourselves, или Майтри.

Having recognized the truth of anxiety, страх, and suffering in our everyday life and the confusion that is also so often pervasive, у нас естественно есть вопросы. How does this state of seemingly constant anxiety, подавлять, страх, and suffering arise?  Where does this confusion come from? In this in-depth exploration of another foundational Buddhist teaching – “The Five Skandhas” – мы коснемся этих слоев или созвездий опыта один за другим, starting from the unconditioned, innate ground of open space, 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.

Учителя: Dale Asrael and John Rockwell

Курс 3 – Вторая благородная истина: Происхождение страдания, Часть II – Колесо жизни, Карма, и двенадцать нидан

The foundational teachings of the Buddha indicate that the anxiety, страх, депрессия, and other forms of suffering we experience in our lives can end if we recognize, глубоко и основательно, как возникло это страдание. Это требует нежной храбрости и глубокого созерцания., and means we must be willing to go beyond any previous simplified ideas about how and why our anxiety, fears and suffering have arisen.

Учителя: Gelong Loden Nyima and Judith Simmer-Brown

Курс IV – Третья благородная истина: Свобода от страданий

Contemplating that anxiety, страх, 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. Понять, что это правда, так просто, и мы все время это замечаем. This can free us from our anxiety, страх, and depression, and leads to freedom.

Учителя: Suzann Duquette and Daniel Hessey

Курс V – Четвертая благородная истина: Путь Шилы, Самадхи, и Праджня

We have been studying the Buddha’s first teaching: The Four Noble Truths. After teaching that anxiety, депрессия, страх, 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, he then taught a way forward, which we call ”The Path.” In fact, everything the Buddha taught and all of our experience as practitioners are “The Path.” В этом курсе, 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.

Учителя: Marianne Bots and Eric Spiegel