Courageous Compassion and Ultimate Reality
NB: Geshe Namdak will not be able to travel to Loenen due to the effects of the corona crisis. This course will be taught through Zoom. Maitreya Instituut Loenen will organize a full weekend program including guided meditations, discussion, review sessions etc. Students in Loenen can view the teachings live on a big screen and interact with Geshe la. You can also choose to follow (just) the teachings online.
During this weekend we will come to understand the most important aspects of the path to enlightenment. We will see that the stronger our compassion is for others, the more courageous the bodhicitta attitude of attaining enlightenment becomes. If this gets combined with emptiness, the view of ultimate reality, it becomes even more powerful. Learn how to generate these most constructive states of mind that exists in our human potential. Geshe Namdak will guide us through these subjects with teachings, meditations, and Q&A using rare and precious instructions of Arya Nagarjuna, Lama Tsongkhapa and Dagpo Thangdar Lama.
About Geshe Namdak:
Venerable Geshe Tenzin Namdak first worked as an environmental researcher having graduated in hydrology. He started studying Buddhism at Maitreya Institute in The Netherlands in 1993 and took ordination from His Holiness the Dalai Lama before engaging in his formal studies in Buddhist philosophy and psychology at Sera Jey Monastic University, South India, in 1997. He completed the entire twenty-year Geshe program at Sera Jey in 2017 and the traditional one year Vajrayana study program at Gyume Tantric College in January 2019, the first Westerner to do so. He has received a great number of teachings from His Holiness and many other highly respected teachers and lineage masters, has done many retreats and is an experienced teacher in practical and philosophical aspects of Buddhism that he teaches with great clarity and a good sense of humour. Currently, he is the resident teacher at Jamyang Buddhist Centre, London, and teaches also at other centres in Europe and India.
Friday
18:30 diner
20:00-21:30 teaching
Saterday
07:00-08:00 meditation
08:00 breakfast
10:30-12:00 teaching
12:15-13:00 review class / discussion
13:00 lunch
15:00-17:00 les
18:00 diner
19:30 Dharma movie / puja
Sunday
07:00-08:00 meditation
08:00 breakfast
10:30-12:00 teaching
12:15-13:00 review class / discussion
13:00 lunch
15:00-17:00 teaching
This weekend can be attended online and on site at the center in Loenen. The online program consists of the teachings only. The meditations, discussion sessions etc. will not be offered on Zoom.
Suggested donation to cover the costs: € 130, (Online 50%)
A few days before the start of the weekend you will receive a Zoom-link.
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