Intro to Buddhism and Meditation:
Meditating on the Insights of the Dharma
Thursdays 7:00-9:00 PM
On Capitol Hill - off Broadway
Being at Ease, Acting with Compassion
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Thursdays: 7:00-8:45PM
Tentative dates.
- Part 1: Sept. 8, 15, 22- $45 (students: $20)
- Part 2: Sept. 29, Oct. 6, 13- $45 (students: $20)
Taught by Ven. Dhammadinna and Tenzin Jesse, this series offers an experience of the meditations and insights of the Dharma. Classes include practice in the Burmese Vipassana tradition as well as teachings in the Tibetan tradition.
We will deepen our ability to work with painful emotions and moods, enhancing optimism, patience and even-mindedness in the face of habitual tendencies toward frustration and dissatisfaction.
Dharma practice enables us to bring all our experiences, both pleasant and unpleasant, into the path of compassion and provides a tool box of practical antidotes for dysfunctional thoughts and feelings. Meditation brings clarity and awareness to our mental states, body and feelings, enhancing control over our experiences and offering us a stable and peaceful happiness that radiates outward to benefit all those with whom we come in contact.
These series are part of a year long introduction to Dharma that covers all of the basic teachings of Buddhism. Each set of classes can be taken by itself as a general, stand alone introduction or students can continue with the next set of classes that will follow on subsequent Thursdays.
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bodhi.community@gmail.com
Tuedays 7:00-8:50 PM
On Capitol Hill
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For Continuing Dharma students: Written in India in the early centuries of the 1st millenium, the "Ornament" is a commentary on the Prajnaparamita Sutras. It builds on the wisdom perspective of texts such as the Heart Sutra by explicitely teaching the entire Mahayana path in detail - a path that is only implicit in the Heart Sutra itself. His Holiness the Dalai Lama says that the "Ornament" is the root text of the Lam Rim, the path to awakening.
"The Ornament" is one of the five great Indian texts studied in the Tibetan monasteries and is the heart of the Geshe curriculum. The text occupies the first five years of the Geshe studies. Like the monks, we will unpack the terse verses of the "Ornament" using both Indian and Tibetan commentarys.
BodhiHeart is producing and using its own fresh translation of both the root text and commentary.
The Tuesday night class is designed for students who consider themselves practicing Buddhists and who enjoy study and philosophy. BodhiHeart's year-long Wednesday lam rim/Intro to Buddhism class is recommended as a minimum prerequisite.
Mindfulness Meditation Classes
For practitioners with a previous Dharma background
Thursdays 7:00-8:50 PM
Venerable Dhammadinna, a Buddhist monastic with 25 years of meditation training in the monasteries of Burma and Thailand, will introduce the foundations of mindfulness. Venerable will give the instructions on the hindrances and their antidotes, and the factors of enlightenment. The class will offer training in calm abiding and special insight with the breath as a vehicle.
The class is designed for Buddhist practioners - particularly BodhiHeart students - with an understanding of the Four Noble Truths. Students must be able to commit to daily meditation sessions at home.
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