Fridays, 5:30 - 6:30pm

The Art of Inner Protection (What Do I Rely Upon When Life Becomes Difficult?)

This class is offered in person only

$10 per class, free for supporting members

What if the protection we are looking for is not found by controlling everything around us, but by changing the way we relate to our own mind? In this series we begin by exploring our ordinary sources of security: relationships, possessions, achievement, control and certainty. While these can provide temporary comfort, they cannot offer lasting protection from change and suffering.

Through guided meditation, teachings and contemplation on the Three Jewels—Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha—we will discover how refuge in these Jewels can become a source of inner stability, courage and freedom in everyday life and we begin to recognise that the most meaningful protection comes from cultivating a peaceful, wise and compassionate mind.

September 11: Three Jewels: What are we really looking for?
September 18: Buddha: Discovering Our Potential with Sanna Tasala
September 25: Dharma: The Path of Inner Transformation
October 2: Sangha: Creating a community of refuge

NEXT SERIES

A Love Less Ordinary

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
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

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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