Join Elaine Jackson as we explore the 12-links of dependent origination, how we create suffering for ourselves each day, and how we can break free from the cycle! Happiness, like suffering is in our mind. When we engage in the patient observation of our thoughts, feelings, emotions and mental images, or any object of the mind, we come to see they are not real things. They arise because they have been entertained in the past.
To begin developing new habits requires radical re-thinking – radical re-doing. It requires stepping outside our everyday life patterns into moments of quietude. It requires mental re-training through which we can transform our attitudes, positively shape our minds, gain confidence to tackle the problems created by disturbing emotions and awaken to an enlightened state.
“The awakening mind is the root of all happiness and peace in the entire universe,” says His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Saturday 2/9/2019 10am-1pm
At Diamond Light Meditation Center
2417 24th Street Room 14, Sacramento CA 95819
Parking lot in back, ADA accessible
www.diamondlightsac.org
Suggested donation: $40-$60 No one turned away for lack of funds. Pay online: http://www.diamondlightsac.org/donate/, or check/cash at the door.
Elaine Jackson is a founding member of Vajrapani Institute and has been a student of Tibetan Buddhism since 1977, studying with many of the greatest Buddhist teachers of our time. Every year for 12 years she engaged in a month-long solitary meditation retreat to deepen her practice.
She served as Executive Director of Vajrapani Institute for over five years just prior to entering a three-year meditation retreat completed in April, 2014. She lives a contemplative life off-the-grid in the Santa Cruz mountains while offering Dharma teachings and meditation support.