This 12 session course will offer a comprehensive introduction to the stages of the path of Buddhist meditation. It is designed for both beginners and seasoned practitioners.
We will co-create a safe community, combining group discussion and direct experience to learn foundational practices including calming the mind, awakening natural qualities of love and compassion, and developing insight into the nature of reality.
The course will culminate in an (optional) offering to take refuge and bodhisattva vows - a formal commitment to cultivate awakening and compassionate action. (This is approached not as a commitment to any particular teacher or lineage, but to one’s own practice.
As a guiding support, this course will lean into Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche’s text “Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones.” This text is considered to be a profound, comprehensive guide to the Buddhist path. Dilgo Khyentse (1910-1991) was a meditation master, scholar, and poet who was known for his playfulness and incredibly warm, loving presence. The text is a commentary (explanation) on the poem ‘The Words of My Perfect Teacher” - one of the most influential and accessible guides for Tibetan Buddhism - by Patrul Rinpoche (1808-1887), a humble master from the Nyigma tradition.
DATES AND TIMES
Mondays 7:00 - 8:30 PM EST at JP Centre Yoga
February 24th - May 12th
Recordings will be available to those who can’t participate live, and for review.
INVESTMENT
Standard Rate | $750
Includes the option to participate in Introduction to Meditation (4 sessions, Mondays 1/13-2/3)
We offer tiered pricing - Click here for more information on what to consider when choosing a tier.
ABOUT LAMA TSERING NGODUP YODSAMPA
Nyigma Lama, Hospital Chaplain, Spiritual Counselor
Since 1983 Tsering Ngodup Yodsampa (he/him), under the spiritual direction of his root teacher the late 14th Kunzig Shamarpa, has devoted his life to sharing the Dharma in the world. Following Kunzig Shamarpa’s advice Tsering lived 17 years in Europe bridging East and West by translating for and interpreting Tibetan spiritual masters and scholars from all four schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
Presently most of Tsering’s time is dedicated to Buddhist chaplaincy, meditation instructor for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and as a Supervisor to chaplaincy interns from the Harvard Divinity School Cambridge, Ma. Tsering provides support to patients and staff using a secular approach of the Indo-Tibetan tradition of mind training (lojong), a convergence of science and spirituality termed Cognitively Based Compassion Training. (CBCT).
ABOUT NOEL COAKLEY
Noel (he/him) is a mental health counselor and former school teacher (special ed.), Meditation Facilitator, Director of the Boston Center for Contemplative Practice, and Assistant Director of Dharma Moon.
He has been practicing meditation since 1996, initially with Indo-Tibetan traditions and then Yundrung Bön. Noel has been fortunate to learn from over 100 teachers, including HH the Dalai Lama and HH the 34th Menri Trizin.