4 Wednesdays January 10, 17, 24, 31 6:30pm-8:30pm
Based on the Wisdom Academy Course, Emptiness: A Practice Course for Meditators explores teachings on emptiness that point to a series of understandings and practices leading to deep insight and a radical experience of liberation.
What You’ll Learn:
Why the Buddha considered the belief in self to be a primary cause of our suffering
How the sense of a self is created over and over through our own mental activities
How meditation on emptiness can slow or stop this activity of “selfing”
How volition, action, personality, and karma can all be seen to lack a self
How our experiences of the world can all be seen to be insubstantial and ungraspable
The content of the course is based on Guy Armstrong’s Emptiness: A Practical Guide for Meditators.
Beginners and experienced students are welcome.
at Diamond Light Meditation Center
2791 24th Street, Room 14 (upstairs), Sacramento CA 95818
parking lot in back, ADA accessible
cost: suggested donation $10-$20 per class, no one turned away for lack of funds
www.diamondlightsac.org
Ryan has been a student of Lama Amie Diller and Tibetan Buddhism for the past 6 years. During this time he has completed the 18 Courses of the Asian Classics Institute, receiving the title of “Maroke,” and has also completed several short group and solo meditation retreats. Ryan is a yoga teacher and has casually studied yogic philosophy in tandem with his Tibetan Buddhist studies. He lives happily with his two cats, Sam and Ash, in downtown Sacramento.