Classes.

Special Introductory Course...  (2 Saturdays and a Tuesday evening)

Introduction to Insight Meditation
with Kim Weeber

Saturdays, October 11 and 18
9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
    *with an optional session on Tuesday, October 14
      7:15 PM to 8:45 PM
Suggested donation $45 – $65, plus teacher Dana.

This two-weekend class will present an overview of the Buddha's teachings on meditation and mindfulness in daily life. There will be guided meditations, discussions, and suggestions for home practice. Recommended reading:The Beginner’s Guide to Insight Meditation by Arinna Weisman. There will be an optional class on Tuesday evening for additional practice and questions. This class will allow participants with evening conflicts theopportunity to take the beginners class.

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Aging
with Arinna Weisman

Monday evenings from 7:00 pm — 9:00 pm
September 8 — 29
Suggested donation $28 – $40 plus teacher Dana

The Buddha saw aging as a heavenly messenger calling our hearts to awaken. Our habitual minds experience these changes with fear and it is easy to fall into the trap of believing this fear especially in a culture that relegates the aged and sick into invisibility. In indigenous cultures older members of the community are respected as wise and carriers of the stories of the past. We will call on this wisdom and our capacity to be aware and loving of this process to free ourselves from the constrictions of fear and cultivate a new relationship to body and mind changes.

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New!
Thursday Evening Study Group

Monthly Parami Study and Practice Group
with Rebecca Bradshaw

Part One:
Thursdays, September 18, November 6,
December 4, and January 8.
7:15 pm — 9:00 pm
Suggested donation: $28 – $40 plus teacher Dana

Part Two:
Five months in the spring: dates TBA
Suggested donation: $35 – $50

This two-part class will present the ten paramis, or spiritual perfections. These are the qualities of an enlightened one and beautiful states of mind to offer in this world. In this monthly group, we will study and practice at home generosity, ethical living, renunciation, resolution, energy, patience, loving kindness, truthfulness, equanimity, and wisdom. Each month we will take a particular parami to practice and then convene to share our challenges and successes.

Students can attend either Part One or Part Two, or both.

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Finding Peace in What Is: The Power of Now
with Jean Esther

Monday evenings from 7:00 pm — 9:00 pm
October 6 — November 3
Suggested donation $35 – $50 plus teacher Dana

How often do we find ourselves so caught in lamenting the past or projecting into the future that we're hardly aware of the present but for a sense of general agitation? The peace which results from connecting fully with the present moment is quite accessible yet like any skill, it takes practice to access it. This fiveweek class is designed to help strengthen our mindfulness practice and explore the Buddha's teachings on Equanimity as they apply to our lives today. The class will include meditation (with some instruction), Dharma teachings, discussion, questions and answers.

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Bringing the Pieces Home: Towards an Integrated Practice
with Rebecca Bradshaw

Monday evenings from 7:00 pm — 9:00 pm
November 10 — December 15
Suggested donation $42 – $60 plus teacher Dana

This class will explore the juncture of love and wisdom in our practice – how opening with love to the places that challenge us – whether it’s fear, anger, longing, or craving leads to a deeply healing and integrated practice. When we no longer need to run from the difficult places within we can rest at peace with however life manifests. For new and experienced students.