Opening Our Heart When Things Fall Apart

Susan Chapman leads a one-day in-person retreat as a foundation for study in the Pema Chodron Contemplative Community. Pema has often expressed her wish that people not only read her books but also meditate. This retreat is an opportunity to establish a foundation of meditation prior to a 5-week online course, led by Susan, devoted to Pema’s “როგორ ვცხოვრობთ, როგორ ვკვდებით”.

Susan has been plumbing the wisdom of birth and death all her life, but especially since encountering her own life-threatening illness a few years ago.

Join Pema and Susan in exploring this rich and challenging subject of endings and beginnings.

The One-Day Retreat:
კვირა, თებერვალი 18, Susan will lead this meditation retreat at the Vancouver Shambhala Centre in recognition of Pema’s desire that we not simply read her books, but also practice sitting.

This retreat is offered as a foundation for the following course:

The(optional) კურსი “როგორ ვცხოვრობთ, როგორ ვკვდებით” :
A five-week online course led by Susan and devoted to Pema Chodron’s “როგორ ვცხოვრობთ, როგორ ვკვდებით” ხუთ ორშაბათს საღამოს, თებ 26 – მარ. 25 (the Zoom link will be provided to participants before the course.)

suggested donation: $100
for more information on the course: https://vancouver.shambhala.org/program-details/?id=695440

Susan Chapman has been a student of Shambhala since 1974, when she met her teacher, ჩოგიამ ტრუნგპა, რინპოჩე. She has an MA in Buddhist and Western Psychology from ნაროპას უნივერსიტეტი და არის პენსიაზე გასული ოჯახის თერაპევტი. She spent nine years at Gampo Abbey, mentoring with Pema Chodron, and remains a student of Pema’s to this day. In 2008 she moved Burnaby, სადაც ქმართან ერთად ცხოვრობს, ჯერი, and their cat, Ziji. In 2020 she retired from her role as an acharya and as faculty for Karuna Training after being diagnosed with breast cancer. Her first book, გონივრული კომუნიკაციის ხუთი გასაღები, გამოქვეყნდა 2012. მისი ახალი წიგნი, რომელი გზაა ზემოთ? გამოქვეყნდება ქ 2024.