About the Series
A Year of Deepening in Compassion is a four-part series exploring the Shambhala Mahayana teachings.
Le chemin du Guerrier Bodhisattva commence par le développement de l'affection pour nous-mêmes et l'étend aux autres, dissoudre les barrières qui nous divisent. To support this practice, Shambhala senior teachers taught a year-long course with contemplative and meditation practices from the Buddhist Mahayana teachings of our lineage.
Throughout this four-part series, the main practice is tonglen, taught by Ani Pema Chödrön with a guided meditation and an audio talk that is posted in all four courses. Additional teachings introduce and support other practices of the Mahayana.
This series is divided into four seasonal themes. Within each season, teachers offered talks that related to that topic with their own personal approach. The themes for the four seasons echo the virtues of the Four Dignities of the Shambhala Path: Tigre, Lion, Garuda et Dragon.
Breakdown of Four-Course Series
Partie 1 – Les quatre illimités
This course includes tonglen instruction, an audio talk by Pema Chödrön and an introduction to The Four Limitless Ones.
- Six recorded classes, led by different teachers.
- Readings and book suggestions to deepen our understanding of these teachings
- Contemplations to help us integrate these fundamental teachings into our daily lives
Sujets de cours
Class 1 – Shamatha et Maitri: Établir les fondations de notre voyage Mahayana with Susan Chapman
Classer 2 – Présentation de Tonglen with Pema Chödrön
Classer 3 – Équanimité avec Eve Rosenthal
Classer 4 – Bonté avec Fleet Maull
Classer 5 – Compassion avec Dale Asraël
Classer 6 – Joie sympathique avec Dan Hessey
Partie 2 – The Joyful Snow Lion: les Paramitas
This course includes an exploration of Relative Bodhicitta and how we put our aspiration into action with the practice of the Paramitas.
- Five recorded classes led by different teachers.
- Readings and book suggestions to deepen our understanding of these teachings
- Contemplations to help us integrate these fundamental teachings into our daily lives
Sujets de cours
Class 1– The Paramita of Generosity avec Marty Janowitz
Class 2– The Paramita of Discipline avec Emily Bower
Class 3– The Paramita of Patience avec Suzann Duquette
Class 4– The Paramita of Exertion avec Moh Hardin
Class 5– The Paramita of Meditation avec John Rockwell
Partie 3 – Garuda intrépide: Vacuité et bodhicitta absolue
Le pouvoir du Mahayana vient de sa clarté concernant la vraie nature de la réalité. This clarity is described as penetrating insight (prajna), that sees that the world is actually different from what we habitually think it is. Instead of assuming that beings, objects and systems are solid, truly existing independently, the bodhisattva sees that everything is empty of concepts and reference points (shunyata).
- Six recorded classes, led by different teachers.
- Readings and book suggestions to deepen our understanding of these teachings
- Contemplations to help us integrate these fundamental teachings into our daily lives
Sujets de cours
Class 1 – Prajnaparamita and Absolute Bodhicitta avec Judith Simmer Brown
Classer 2 – Heart Sutra avec David Schneider
Classer 3 – Feminine Principle avec Judith Simmer Brown
Classer 4 – Shunyata avec Mélissa Moore
Classer 5 – Prajna and Compassion avec Judith Simmer Brown
Partie IV – Skillful Dragon: Lojong et engagement compatissant
The spiritual path does not lead to non-activity and withdrawing from the world. In the Shambhala tradition, the master warrior is profoundly engaged. This last part of the course series will explore the teachings on the Lojong, Athisha’s famous mind-training slogans, qui nous invitent à utiliser les difficultés et les problèmes que nous rencontrons pour approfondir notre chemin.
- Six recorded classes, led by different teachers.
- Readings and book suggestions to deepen our understanding of these teachings
- Contemplations to help us integrate these fundamental teachings into our daily lives
Sujets de cours
Class 1 – Lojong and the Four Reminders avec Gaylon Ferguson
Class 2– Absolute Bodhicitta Slogans avec John Rockwell
Class 3– Relative Bodhicitta Slogans, Partie 1 avec Holly Gayley
Class 4– Relative Bodhicitta Slogans, Partie 2 avec Fleet Maull
Class 5– Bodhicitta in Everyday Life avec Susan Skjei
Class 6– The Bodhisattva Vow with Susan Chapman