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Classes with Mark Hart | Dharma Inquiry Group
Human life seems to be endlessly busy. The constant rush rarely allows us to know who we are and experience the true value of things. In this 8-week course, you will learn to discover and access the stillness that awareness can offer in the midst of ceaseless change. Only as one learns to rest in awareness can one truly know oneself, rather than conceptual constructions of one’s self-image, and see one’s situation with clarity. Each class includes an informal mix of instruction and discussion tailored to the current questions, difficulties, and interests of the class members that some up in their practice as well as 30 minutes of guided meditation practice. “Awareness homework” during the week is sometimes given. Students who will gain the most benefit from the class are those who attend all classes and commit themselves to practicing meditation for at least 20 minutes daily.
Awakening from the Trance of "Me" There is an intelligence in each us that is not separate from others or the world around us, where we feel at home, at peace, and connected. However, most of the time we live in a narrow circle of thought that is preoccupied with this character “me”: what’s wrong with me, what’s right with me, how I’m right, what I need that I lack, who/what is not giving to me, and what everything that happens means about me. This class will explore how the step out of that narrow circle and live in that greater intelligence. Each class will include 30 minutes of meditation.
Non-Bodhisara Teachings by Mark Hart At Northampton Insight Meditation Community (in the Karuna Center):
Call (413) 259-2145 for information
Lama John Makransky Cultivating Love and Wisdom as Expressions of Our Innate Wholeness This day-long retreat is for both new and experienced meditators. Participants learn powerful meditations from Tibetan Buddhism that help bring out latent powers of loving compassion and wisdom from the ground of our being. Such meditations, adapted for people of all faiths and backgrounds, can make us more fully present to self and others by awakening an unconditional attitude from within that nourishes all, while challenging us to see more potential in all. When this unity of compassion and wisdom is embodied in relationships and action, it can become a great force to heal our lives and our world. The ancient bodhisattva way of awakening can be rediscovered here and now in the particulars of family, work and service. Guided meditations, questions and discussion. email Mark Hart harts@crocker.com to register. The event is free and open to the public. John Makransky is Associate Professor of Buddhism and Comparative Theology at Boston College, senior advisor to Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche’s Centre of Buddhist Studies in Nepal, and co-founder of the Foundation for Active Compassion. In 2000, John was ordained a Tibetan Buddhist lama in the lineage of Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche. He is the guiding meditation teacher of the Foundation for Active Compassion, a socially engaged Buddhist organization that trains social servants of all faiths (social workers, therapists, healthcare givers, teachers, social activists, etc.) in meditations of innate compassion and wisdom adapted from Tibet. He is on the board of directors of the Buddhist-Christian Studies Society, founding co-chair of the Buddhist Critical Reflection Group in the American Academy of Religion, and author of Awakening through Love.
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Directions to the Cadigan Center for Religious Studies, Amherst College For those of you who'd like to mapquest, the address is 38 Woodside Avenue, Amherst. The Cadigan Center is not on the main part of the campus but west of Route 116/South Pleasant Street by one block. Starting from the traffic light at the intersection of Route 9 and South Pleasant street by the Amherst Common, go west on Route 9 (toward Hadley and Northampton) and take the first left. Go down to the end of the block and the Cadigan Center is on your left just before you come to the intersection with Walnut Street. Coming from Hadley on Route 9 go past the Amherst College fields coming up the hill toward the common. Woodside is the right turn after Orchard St. and the last right before the traffic light.
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