INTRODUCTION TO MEDITATION

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Kushok teaches Calm Abiding or secular mindfulness meditation practice to new and senior students – whoever shows an interest in these teachings and practices. The subject changes every course, but the core of the practice is based in secular meditation that can be beneficial to people of any faith.

INTRODUCTION TO BUDDHISM AND DAILY PRACTICE

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Kushok teaches on fundamental philosophies of Buddhism including the Four Noble Truths, Twelve Links of Dependent Arising, Thirty-Seven Branches of Enlightenment, and more. All of these philosophies illustrate the key role the mind plays in bringing about happiness and inner peace.

LAM RIM – THE GRADUATED PATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT

(Continuous course running on Tuesdays, click here on our Calendar for dates)

Attendees who have completed the introductory courses several times eventually enter into the Tuesday weekly class on The Graduated Path to Enlightenment. This class follows the “thöe sam gom sum” approach (study, analyze, meditate) to the Lam Rim. Kushok completed the teachings on Pabongkha Rinpoche’s Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand in 2014. Now we are studying Volume 2 of Je Tsongkhapa’s Lam Rim Chen Mo or The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment.