THE DEEP PATH OF MEDITATION IN TIBETAN BUDDHISM: SAMATHA, VIPASSANA AND THE CORE INSTRUCTIONS
september 5 @ 7:00 e m – september 7 @ 4:30 e m
Undervisning med: MIKE BORTOLOTTI
Datum: Fre – sön 5 – 7/9
Tid: Fre kl. 19 – 20.30, lör och sön kl 10-16.30
Plats: Sakya Changchub Chöling, Stockholm
Språk: engelska
Ingen översättning till svenska
Så här beskriver Mike själv helgens undervisning och meditationer:
By practising authentic meditation, we can effectively transform our minds. Intellectual knowledge is indispensable to understand the right path, but if it is not accompanied by an authentic meditative experience, we will not be able to control our mind and disturbing emotions. Integrating knowledge and meditation is the secret of spiritual development. This has allowed many practitioners to achieve realisation. At the same time, this is the biggest challenge for Westerners, who tend to get lost, intellectual knowledge is then at best combined with a weak meditative ability.
During this weekend, we will study the main meditative methods of Tibetan Buddhism and learn to distinguish the different approaches. We start with instruction on Samatha, the basis of all meditation, and then cover Vipassana, the transcendental insight. Samatha and Vipassana finally lead to the deep core instructions, through which we train ourselves to dwell in open awareness and recognise the true nature of mind.
