Tuesdays, 7:00 – 8:30 PM, PT (January 7 – January 28, 2025)
Online and In-Person at the Nyingma Institute
Once we properly accept ourselves and our situation, we can meditate in any place and at any time. This is what I am trying to point out. —Tarthang Tulku, Crystal Mirror IV, 170.
More than formal techniques or sitting practices, meditation offers a way of discovering the nature of mind. Once we understand meditation properly, the whole nature of mind can become meditation. And in this class through reading, practice, and discussion we will explore this expansive description of meditation. We will read Tarthang Tulku’s essays on “Taking the Teachings to Heart” from Crystal Mirror IV, Bringing the Teachings Alive: The Buddhist Heritage of Tibet. In these essays, Rinpoche presents a preliminary understanding of meditation and direct experience. He offers us a way to make friends with meditation and to discover an awareness that is immediate and spontaneous. This class is for those who wish to deepen their understanding of meditation, taking inspiration from Rinpoche’s writing for practice.
Instructor: Hugh Joswick.
