The Buddhist Studies Program is designed for people who have attended three or more mindfulness meditation retreats and have a commitment to daily meditation practice. The course includes dharma talks, small and large group discussions, and guided sitting time. Participants will be expected to use the teachings as a focus of their meditation and daily life practice. Led by Mark Nunberg.
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Current Class
The Buddha’s Liberating Teachings on Dukkha – The Unsatisfactory Nature of Sense Experience
Eight Mondays, September 9th – October 28th, 7:30 – 9:00 p.m. Optional sitting period, 7:00 – 7:30
In this eight-week course on Dukkha, we will examine the second of three underlying truths that characterize all experience. We will use a stable and continuous present-moment awareness to better investigate the unsatisfactory, uncertain, and ungovernable nature of experience. This underlying nature may be unpleasant, but it doesn’t have to be a personal problem. The Buddha taught that the mind can be trained to see the nature of dukkha clearly in a way that uproots the habits of resistance and/or denial. With practice, it is possible to meet unsatisfactoriness with equanimity, thus opening the door to insight and freedom.
Resources
Course Meditations and Talks:
Study Materials:
- Suffering should be Welcomed by Ahjahn Sumed
- Deep Dukkha: Getting Down in the Trenches with the First Noble Truth, by Toni Bernhard
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