‘The Loneliness & Joy of Discipline’
“Aloneness seems to be the heart of discipline [...] You cannot develop yourself properly unless you give up your need for companionship. Once you give up your search for companionship, you can make friends with your loneliness. At that point, you become a genuine practitioner.”
– Chögyam Trungpa, The Path of Individual Liberation
Join us online via Zoom every Tuesday Evening for our Meditation Course; The Buddhist Path of Awakening
Next Meeting December 8, 2021
6:15 - 6:30 PM ET: Social Conversation
6:30 - 7:30 PM ET: Meditation (including optional walking meditation and tonglen practice) - Join us anytime, meditation instruction available at the start of the session. Please let the Zoom group leader know or contact us here prior class.
7:35 - 8:45 PM ET: Class (talk and discussion)
Learn how how to join this livestream Zoom event here.
Class Reading for Tuesday Course will be from the book The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma, Vol. I, written by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche)
Chapter 16 "The Loneliness & Joy of Discipline"
Chapter 17 "Taming the Neurotic Mind"
Chapter 18 "Cutting the Root of Samsara"
Led by John Baker, Barry Cunningham, and Laura Read
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Drop-ins welcome
About the Course
Starting in 1973 Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, newly arrived in the U.S. from Tibet by way of India and England, began accompanying his students each year on a 3-month fall retreat, presenting them with the teachings of the three divisions of Tibetan Buddhism: Hinayana (Foundational Vehicle), Mahayana (Great Vehicle), and Vajrayana (Indestructible Vehicle). He continued to do this for thirteen years, and the teachings he gave have been transcribed and digested into the three volumes ofThe Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma, one volume for each vehicle.
These volumes are one of the very finest ways to immerse oneself in the teachings of Tibetan Tantric Buddhism, and they are presented by one of the most profound expositors of Buddhism to arrive in the West. Trungpa Rinpoche loved the Western language and culture, and he presented the teachings in Western idiom, translating the often culturally unfamiliar images beautifully into English.
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New to Meditation?
Meditation instruction is available on request. Either let the group leader know at start of session or email us at contact@pathofawakeningbuddhistcenter.org
