About the Series
This five-course-series provides a thorough exploration of core Buddhist teachings, drawing on teachings from prominent teachers and classic Buddhist sources. If you have ever wondered “what Buddhism is all about" or feel like you need a refresher on the key teachings, this is the course for you!
The Hinayana path is where every Buddhist practitioner begins. It is based on the mindfulness and awareness training of meditation as well as many other core Buddhist principles and teachings, tel que: Les Quatre Nobles Vérités, The Four Marks of Existence, Maître (friendliness to oneself), Karma, Les Cinq Skandhas, The Four Foundations of Mindfulness, and many more foundational teachings of the Buddha that are the heart the Buddhist practitioner’s path.
Explore these recorded sessions at your own pace to find more contentment and joy and to discover the freedom you can have from anxiety, dépression, agitation, and fear. There are no live sessions, so you will receive all course materials upon registration and can take this course from the comfort of your own home, on your own schedule.
Benefits of the Course
- Par la pratique de la méditation, experience the present moment of everyday life just as it is
- Develop more contentment and joy and live with greater clarity and compassion
- Begin to understand the cause of your anxiety, dépression, and fear and how you can be free from it
- Develop more friendliness to yourself, allowing you to meet the challenges of daily life with bravery and dignity
- Cultivate having a more open heart - both to yourself and others
The registration fee for this course series is $399. While this may be a large upfront investment, you will receive multiple talks on each topic from some of Shambhala's most treasured teachers, while gaining insight and tools to last a lifetime.
Breakdown of Five-Course Series
One of the most foundational Buddhist teachings, “The Four Noble Truths”, is used as the overall organizing principle for this course and is threaded throughout each session.
The Four Noble Truths are:
- The Truth of Suffering (we all experience ongoing anxiety, craindre, dépression, pain)
- The Truth of the Cause of Suffering (there is a reason why we experience our experience as suffering - anxiety, craindre, pain, dépression, etc.)
- The Truth of the Cessation of Suffering (it is actually possible to end our anxiety, craindre, depression and other forms of suffering)
- The Truth of the Path to the Cessation of Suffering (there is an actual path to follow where we learn the tools and methods for how we no longer need to experience anxiety, craindre, dépression, and other forms of suffering)
Cours I - La première noble vérité: Rencontrer la souffrance avec Maitri
This first section of the 5-part course offers an exploration of the nature of suffering (the anxiety, dépression, and fear we work with every day) from the perspective of another foundational Buddhist teaching - the Four Marks of Existence.
The Four Marks of Existence are: Impermanence, Souffrance, Selflessness, and Peace, and we learn how we can meet our anxiety, depression and other forms of suffering with maitri - a sanskrit word for “unconditional friendliness." The teachers also guide students in the exploration and practice of Mindfulness of Body, le premier des quatre fondements de la pleine conscience - yet another core Buddhist teaching.
Dans ses premiers enseignements, the Buddha taught that the suffering, anxiety, dépression, and fear of everyday existence is the First Noble Truth. Such underlying agitation and suffering is changing and impermanent, and it arises from infinite causes and conditions. Cependant, it feels intensely personal (“mine”), et, En fait, est l'une des bases que nous utilisons pour forger notre identité (“me and my problems”), which is called “mistaking what has no self for a self.” Cet état d'esprit génère une peur et une anxiété sous-jacentes constantes. Lorsque nous reconnaissons ces simples vérités de l'existence, impermanence, Souffrance, and the absence of a “true self such as we perceive it," nous pouvons expérimenter la paix du nirvana - and much more contentment and joy.
Enseignants: Susan Chapman et Fleet Maull
Cours II - La seconde noble vérité: L'origine de la souffrance, Première partie - Les Cinq Skandas
Instructions in the Four Foundations of Mindfulness are interwoven with the teaching of The Four Noble Truths and provide a meditative method for embracing the totality of our basically good experience - which can include holding our anxiety, pain, craindre, and suffering with unconditional friendliness for ourselves, ou Maitri.
Having recognized the truth of anxiety, craindre, and suffering in our everyday life and the confusion that is also so often pervasive, nous avons naturellement des questions. How does this state of seemingly constant anxiety, submerger, craindre, and suffering arise? Where does this confusion come from? In this in-depth exploration of another foundational Buddhist teaching - “The Five Skandhas” - nous toucherons ces couches ou constellations d'expérience une par une, à partir de l'inconditionné, terre innée de l'espace ouvert, and see how we create our own world of projections. Through this exploration we can uncover what is real and begin to tune into more contentment and joy.
Enseignants: Dale Asraël et John Rockwell
Cours III - La seconde noble vérité: L'origine de la souffrance, Partie II - La roue de la vie, Karma, et les Douze Nidanas
The foundational teachings of the Buddha indicate that the anxiety, craindre, dépression, and other forms of suffering we experience in our lives can end if we recognize, profondément et profondément, comment cette souffrance est apparue. Cela demande une douce bravoure et une profonde contemplation, and means we must be willing to go beyond any previous simplified ideas about how and why our anxiety, fears and suffering have arisen.
Enseignants: Gelong Loden Nyima and Judith Simmer-Brown
Cours IV - La Troisième Noble Vérité: Se libérer de la souffrance
Contemplating that anxiety, craindre, depression and other forms of suffering can indeed end - that this is actually possible - we first see the possibility and accessibility of the third noble truth as the “gap." We are basically good and innately worthy human beings. Réaliser que c'est vrai est aussi simple que cela, et nous entrevoyons cela tout le temps. This can free us from our anxiety, craindre, and depression, and leads to freedom.
Enseignants: Suzann Duquette et Daniel Hessey
Cours V - La quatrième noble vérité: Le chemin de Shila, Samadhi, et Prajna
Nous avons étudié le premier enseignement du Bouddha: Les Quatre Nobles Vérités. After teaching that anxiety, dépression, craindre, and other forms of suffering are pervasive to all experience, that there is a cause to that suffering and that the end of that suffering is possible, il a ensuite enseigné une voie à suivre, que nous appelons "Le Chemin". En réalité, everything the Buddha taught and all of our experience as practitioners are “The Path.” Dans ce cours, we will examine this notion of “The Path” from multiple perspectives of what has been taught by the Buddha and what is experienced by us as individuals walking this beautiful and profound path of transformation.
Enseignants: Marianne Bots et Eric Spiegel