Fridays, 5:30 - 6:30pm

A Love Less Ordinary

This class is offered in person only

$10 per class, free for supporting members

Although we always seek happiness in our close relationships, so many of those relationships wind up burdened with too much of the opposite: Unhappiness. According to Buddha this is because we often confuse desirous attachment for love. Desirous attachment is a deluded, unpeaceful state of mind that sees the other people as our source of happiness, and consequently expects these people to make us happy. But it is a con job. Happiness doesn’t come from other people. It comes from our own mind. Desirous attachment undermines our love for family, friends and others, making those relationships ordinary and setting us up for dissatisfaction and conflict again and again.

In this series, we will learn how to recognize and reduce our desirous attachment and to replace it with an authentic love that actually does reveal pure happiness. We will experience a love less ordinary and discover how all our relationships can become extraordinary – extraordinary and crucial components of an extraordinary life.

October 9: Distinguishing Desirous Attachment and Love in All our Relationships, with Daniel Koren
October 16: How to Connect to Another Person’s Heart
October 23: Why Others Matter
October 30: How Training in Love Transforms our Relationships
November 6: How an Open Heart of Love Makes Your Life Extraordinary

NEXT SERIES

The Art of Resilience: Transforming Life’s Challenges into Growth

How do you deal with your life's difficulties and challenges? Normally we respond to problems with frustration and anger, but this resistance actually makes our difficulties worse. If instead of rejecting the situation we respond with acceptance, we give ourselves the mental space to see its underlying causes. By addressing these root causes, we learn to move fluidly with life’s challenges, transforming our everyday difficulties into the very means to fulfill our deepest wishes for lasting happiness. In this course, we will train practically in the Buddhist path of radical acceptance and transformation, learning to address our own life situations directly through a powerful combination of meditation, and contemplation

November 13: The Power of Acceptance
November 20: Why Anger Doesn’t Work
November 27: What the Problem Teaches Us
December 4: Allowing Transformation
December 11: Freedom from a Painful Self

DETAILS

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All classes in the series can be taken as a stand-alone class. Drop into any class you like.
Suitable for both beginners and experienced meditation practitioners. Minimum age is 13.
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