The Four Noble Truths

Thursday May 21- Thursday June 25

6:30-8pm ET

Zoom

Various Buddhist lineages emphasize different teachings, but they all share the Four Noble Truths as the most essential teaching of them all. This was what the Buddha taught first after realizing enlightenment, and it contains, well, everything. One could spend a lifetime only studying this teaching and never stop finding new dimensions, new gifts. This teaching is in some ways very bare, especially in it’s first two truths. The teaching reveals what we already know: we are suffering. It shows us why we are suffering: constant grasping at the ungraspable. But if the first two truths feel like diving into the Atlantic Ocean on January 1st, the second two are like sipping cool water after running a marathon. The third truth lets us know that this way of being is not a foregone conclusion. There is a way out of this suffering. And the the fourth truth details for us what we need to do to wake up and find ourselves in a life that is more vivid, grateful, peaceful, and surprising. It reconnects us with our Buddha nature.

In this six week course we’ll look closely at this generous teaching and endeavor to see ourselves in it- not only in our suffering, but also in our wakefulness.

All levels of experience welcome.

All classes will be recorded for asynchronous participation.

Cost- $160 Please scroll down for registration and payment options.

No one turned away for lack of funds, please reach out if you need financial assistance.