Living on the Other Side of Suffering
An Experiment In Balancing Practice and Becoming More Fully Human
This is a ten-week course facilitated by SIM Founding teacher Dennis Warren (click here for his biography).
Overview
Buddhist practice involves two inter-related paths or “wings”: Wisdom practices and Heart practices. Wisdom practices focus of understanding and dismantling suffering. Heart practice, in contrast, involve a different process: constructing an intentional, inclusive, satisfying life. Both help us get to what the Historical Buddha called “the other side of suffering” – but in significantly different ways.
Heart practices are characterized by openness, inclusion, relationship, deep satisfaction, enjoyment and nourishing happiness. They open us up and soften us. They help us relax and embrace our vulnerabilities and weakness. They involve a sense of well-being and ease. They lead to important meditative, personal and trans-personal insights.
This highly experiential, eleven-week course focuses on the development of nine different Heart practices so they become more active characteristics of our thinking, daily life and relationships. Emphasis is placed on helping participants find their own individual path to discovering the power of Heart practices in their lives and in their pre-existing contemplative, meditative or spiritual practices. The course includes weekly readings, targeted reflection, guided meditative inquiry, active daily life and relationship experiments, and formal meditations.
Location, Schedule, and Registration
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The course involves a registration fee of $50 with an option to offer an additional donation. If you have any questions for the teacher or otherwise, contact the course registrar, click here.
