Discovering Buddhism is an introductory course designed to give participants the tools and skills needed to integrate Mahayana Buddhist practice into daily life.

The course consists of presentations, meditations, meditation days, and questions & answers.

It is recommended that students commit to the complete 2-year course and attend meditation days, though you are welcome to come for one module or one evening!

Led by a teacher or senior student, each session will include a presentation on the topic, group discussion and a meditation.

*Please note any student can begin at any time during the Discovering Buddhism course. The first evening of each new module is preceded with a short (approx 15 minute) introduction.

Establishing a Daily Practice

Wednesday evenings at 7.15 pm, continuing March 5, 12, 19, with Ven. Jamyang

This module will present very practical ways to begin our own regular practice at home.
It is critical that we utilize this life by training our minds not to be so reactive with anger and other afflictive emotions, but instead cultivate positive qualities that are of benefit to ourselves and others. If we are able to generate good qualities such as loving kindness and patience we can make a big difference to the world by offering peace and harmony instead of antagonism and harm.

In order to achieve this, we need to have a more spacious mind which is able to deal with life and adversity in a positive way.

Meditation is the perfect tool to bring this mind training into fruition and thus it is extremely important to set up a daily practice.

Become familiar with the elements necessary to generate realizations in the mind and receive some tips for making every action of the day meaningful.
 

Samsara and Nirvana

Wednesday evenings at 7.15pm, March 26, April 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 and May 7, With Jampa Gendun

Samsara is the term for the whole of cyclic existence and the suffering associated with being trapped in the wheel of rebirth. Every moment of our lives we choose between positive and negative actions to fulfill our aims, and such actions will inevitably lead either to happiness or suffering. If we could understand how to act in a way that will bring us happiness instead of suffering, we will be able to move towards the state of nirvana, perfect happiness.

Full liberation from suffering and from the cycle of existence can only be achieved when our fundamental ignorance, our habitual misapprehension of the nature of reality, is totally overcome. This ignorance, which underlies all our emotional and cognitive states, is the root factor that binds us to the perpetual cycle of life and death in samsara.
- HHDL the World of Tibetan Buddhism

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