WEEKLY ONGOING MEDITATION CLASSES
Discovering Buddhism: Exploring the Core Insights of Buddha’s Teachings
The Discovering Buddhism series offers a clear and introductory approach to the essential insights at the heart of Buddha’s teachings. If you have ever wondered what Buddhism is about, or if you are looking to reconnect with its foundations, you will discover how Buddha’s timeless wisdom brings meaning, clarity, and peace to life in today’s modern world.
What We Choose to Notice: How Directing Attention to What is Meaningful Gives Rise to Peace, Compassion, and Wisdom
Our attention is trainable. Instead of allowing the mind to be pulled toward irritation, anxiety, or dissatisfaction, we can learn to place our attention on what opens the heart and strengthens wisdom. In this class, we will explore how choosing what we notice can gradually change the quality of our mind, our relationships, and our life.
Full Hearted Attention: Bringing Our Whole Heart to Meditation, Relationships, and Daily Life
Spiritual attention is more than simply observing what is happening. It can be active, immersive, and deeply felt—a way of bringing our whole heart to our meditation, our relationships, and our life. In this final class, we will explore how attention joined with love, compassion, and wisdom becomes a powerful method for transformation.
When Attention Gets Hooked: How Painful States of Mind Capture Our Attention - and How We Can Loosen Their Grip
When our mind is disturbed, our attention is often caught in a painful pattern. Anger fixates on faults, attachment exaggerates what seems desirable, and worry circles around imagined problems. In this class, we will learn how these habits of mind disturb our peace and how meditation gives us a practical way to become less hooked and more free.
Where Our Mind Goes, We Go: How Attention Shapes Our Experiences and How Meditation Begins to Train the Mind
Our attention has tremendous power. What we focus on becomes vivid, important, and often feels like our whole reality. In this class, we will explore how attention shapes our experience of ourselves, others, and the world—and how meditation helps us begin to guide the mind in a more peaceful direction.