Class and Event Schedule for
March 2019
Venerable Geshe Sherab
Bodhisattva Warrior
Public Talk
Friday, March 29th 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Bodhisattva Warrior
Public Talk
Friday, March 29th 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Wherever we are, we can train as a warrior. The practices of meditation, loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity are our tools. With the help of these practices, we can uncover the soft spot of bodhichitta, the tenderness of the awakened heart. We will find that tenderness in sorrow and in gratitude. We will find it behind the hardness of rage and in the shakiness of fear. It is available in loneliness as well as in kindness.
–Pema Chodron, from Pocket Teachings of HH Dalai Lama, Pema Chodron and Thich Nhat Hanh
–Pema Chodron, from Pocket Teachings of HH Dalai Lama, Pema Chodron and Thich Nhat Hanh
The Healing Power of Love & Finding Joy
Presented on the perfection of patience and joyous effort based on Shantideva's,
"Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life".
Two Day Retreat
Saturday, March 30th, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
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Sunday, March 31st, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
In the whole of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition there is no single treatise more deeply revered or widely practiced than A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life. Composed in the eighth century by the Indian Bodhisattva Shantideva, it became an instant classic in the curricula of the Buddhist monastic universities of India, and its renown has grown ever since. Shantideva presents methods to harmonize one's life with the Bodhisattva ideal and inspires the reader to cultivate the perfections of the Bodhisattva: generosity, ethics, patience, zeal, meditative concentration, and wisdom.
Geshe Thubten Sherab was born in 1967 in a small village in the province of Manang, the western part of Nepal, to a Kagyu-Nyingma family. He entered Kopan Monastery at the age of nine and completed his Geshe studies at Sera Je monastery in South India, followed by a year at Gyumed Tantric College. He then completed retreat and teaching assignments both in the U.S. and Asia. He served as Headmaster of Kopan Monastery's school for four years, overseeing debate training and tantric training activities. Geshe Sherab understands and connects very well with Western students, presenting the Dharma in an accessible, warm, and open manner.
Cultivating Emotional Balance
COURSE DESCRIPTION
At some point in our lives we may have heard and been constrained by the notion that “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks” or “this is just the way I am”. In Cultivating Emotional Balance Training (CEBT), we are encouraged to release the shackles of limitation by broadening our attention to the vast ocean of possibilities and learn to ride the currents of an ever-changing universe. The truth is that the dynamic force of change that runs through all of nature endows each one of us with an extraordinary capacity to evolve. In CEBT, we are called to move beyond the confines of normalcy by probing the depths of exceptional mental balance and awakening a heartfelt concern toward our own and others’ well-being.
Contemplatives for millennia have demonstrated the possibility of transformation while science is demonstrating the phenomenon of neuroplasticity, which correlates with the potential for change in our lives. While human existence cannot be reduced to brain activity, scientific insights reinforce contemplative introspective strategies such as paying attention and understanding sensations, thoughts, and feelings and how they may have significant impact on ourselves and others well-being. Cultivating Emotional Balance becomes ever so necessary in this evolution and our capacity to train our minds for the good.
INSTRUCTOR
Sherri Aikin, MSN
Sherri has been teaching CEBT since 2015 after attending the teachers training in Australia with Eve Ekman PhD and Alan Wallace, PhD. Sherri has taught local law enforcement officers at the Washoe County Sheriff’s office and Reno Police Department, as well as at the Washoe County Public Defender's office and REMSA. She has had an ongoing community mindfulness course since 2014. She also holds a certification from UCLA as a Mindfulness Facilitator. While Sherri is dedicated to the secular teachings imparted in the CEBT training and mindfulness, she has been a dedicated student to Buddhism in both practice and study.
COURSE GOALS
The course consists of 12 hours of training in meditation practice, understanding the Four Balances of emotional stability, group discussion, and experiential exercises:
⦿ Understand the Four Balances: Conative, Attention, Mental and Emotional Balance
⦿ Understand and recognize the 7 universal emotions
⦿ Cultivate the Four Immeasurables
⦿ Cultivate Mindfulness practice
⦿ Understand the science of emotions and the emotional timeline
⦿ Understand the benefits of cultivating emotional balance and the scientific support of meditation
COURSE RESOURCES, MATERIAL, AND PROPS
⦿ Emotions revealed, Recognizing Faces and feelings to improve communication and emotional life. - Paul Ekman
⦿ The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the power of the Focused Mind - Alan Wallace
⦿ Satipatthana: The Direct Path to Realization - Analayo
⦿ Minding Closely: The Four Applications of Mindfulness - Alan Wallace
⦿ Mindful Compassion - Paul Gilbert & Robinson Choden
⦿ atlasofemotions.org
⦿ compact mirror (for certain exercises)
⦿ comfortable dress
⦿ yoga mat
CLASS INFORMATION
Session 1 of 8
Anyone can benefit by attending at any point in the series, so don’t hesitate to drop in to a class!
COURSE COST
125 $
Monday, January 14, 2019 - 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM - Every week on Monday until March 12, 2019
(Not affiliated with FPMT)
Drop In Meditation
Meditation is an effective, yet simple way to deal with many life stresses. There is a growing body of scientific research indicating that meditation is highly effective in reducing physical and mental stress.
Every Tuesday and Thursday
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Tong-Len is an essential part of Tibetan Buddhist Mind-Training known as Lojong, the key to what is called Bodhicitta or “Enlightened Heart.”
Tong-Len has been said by the Tibetan lamas to be the most powerful and easiest dharma technique to learn for Westerners. It awakens our compassion and introduces us to a bigger view of reality.
Thursdays 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Facilitated by Anne Ligon
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Tong-Len has been said by the Tibetan lamas to be the most powerful and easiest dharma technique to learn for Westerners. It awakens our compassion and introduces us to a bigger view of reality.
Thursdays 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Facilitated by Anne Ligon
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Book Study Group
Approaching the Buddhist Path
by His Holiness the Dalai Lama & Thubten Chodron
Wednesdays 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
The group will be reading in different areas of the book week by week. There is no set time to finish this reading, and the group will be meditating using three types of meditation. A handout will be provided to all meditators, and do not worry about coming into the middle of our journey through this book. The book is available on Kindle, or you can buy a copy at cost at Dharmakaya Center.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama has been publicly teaching Buddhism for decades. The Library of Wisdom and Compassion collects his presentations of every step of the path to enlightenment, compiled and coauthored by one of his chief Western disciples, the American nun Thubten Chodron.
The Buddha wanted his students to investigate, to see for themselves whether what he said were true. As a student of the Buddha, the Dalai Lama promotes the same spirit of investigation, and as the rich tradition of the Buddha makes its way into new lands and cultures, His Holiness has recognized that new approaches are needed to allow seekers in the West to experience the relevance of the liberating message in their own lives. Such an approach cannot assume listeners are free from doubt and already have faith in Buddhism’s basic tenets. The Library of Wisdom and Compassion series, therefore, starts from the universal human wish for happiness and presents the dynamic nature of the mind. This first volume also provides a wealth of reflections on Buddhist history and fundamentals, contemporary issues, and the Dalai Lama’s own personal experiences. It stands alone as an introduction to Buddhism, but it also provides a foundation for the systematic illumination of the path in the volumes to come.
Facilitated by Mary Wellhoner
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Class - Buddhism In A Nutshell
Presented in ten - 1 hour sessions and covers these basic principles of Mahayana Buddhism:
Facilitated by Trey Ligon
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Presented in ten - 1 hour sessions and covers these basic principles of Mahayana Buddhism:
- Life of Shakyamuni Buddha.
- The Four Noble Truths.
- Truth of Suffering — the diagnosis of our existential situation.Truth of the Cause of Suffering — karma, delusions, ignorance.
- Truth of the Cessation of Suffering - nirvana.
- Truth of the Path to the Cessation of Suffering - practices of wisdom and method.
- What does it mean to be a Buddhist, an “inner being”?
- Different kinds of Buddhism.
- Different schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
Facilitated by Trey Ligon
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Dharmakaya Center
6165 Ridgeview Court, Suite G
Reno, Nevada 89519
Dharmakaya Center
6165 Ridgeview Court, Suite G
Reno, Nevada 89519
Affiliated with the
Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition
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