About the Series
A Year of Deepening in Compassion is a four-part series exploring the Shambhala Mahayana teachings.
O caminho do Guerreiro Bodhisattva começa com o desenvolvimento do afeto por nós mesmos e o expande para os outros, dissolvendo as barreiras que nos dividem. 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: Tiger, Lion, Garuda e Dragão.
Breakdown of Four-Course Series
Papel 1 – Os Quatro Ilimitados
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
Tópicos do Curso
Class 1 – Shamatha e Maitri: Estabelecendo as bases para nossa jornada Mahayana with Susan Chapman
Classe 2 – Introdução ao Tonglen with Pema Chödrön
Classe 3 – Equanimidade com Eve Rosenthal
Classe 4 – Gentileza adorável com Frota Maull
Classe 5 – Compaixão com Dale Asrael
Classe 6 – Alegria Simpática com Dan Hessey
Papel 2 – The Joyful Snow Lion: os 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
Tópicos do Curso
Class 1– The Paramita of Generosity com Marty Janowitz
Class 2– The Paramita of Discipline com Emily Bower
Class 3– The Paramita of Patience com Suzann Duquette
Class 4– The Paramita of Exertion com Moh Hardin
Class 5– The Paramita of Meditation com John Rockwell
Papel 3 – Garuda destemido: Vazio e Bodhicitta Absoluto
O poder do Mahayana vem de sua clareza sobre a verdadeira natureza da realidade. 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
Tópicos do Curso
Class 1 – Prajnaparamita and Absolute Bodhicitta com Judith Simmer-Brown
Classe 2 – Heart Sutra com David Schneider
Classe 3 – Feminine Principle com Judith Simmer-Brown
Classe 4 – Shunyata com Melissa Moura
Classe 5 – Prajna and Compassion com Judith Simmer-Brown
Parte IV – Skillful Dragon: Lojong e Engajamento Compassivo
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, que nos convidam a utilizar as dificuldades e problemas que encontramos para aprofundar nosso caminho.
- 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
Tópicos do Curso
Class 1 – Lojong and the Four Reminders com Gaylon Ferguson
Class 2– Absolute Bodhicitta Slogans com John Rockwell
Class 3– Relative Bodhicitta Slogans, Papel 1 com Holly Gayley
Class 4– Relative Bodhicitta Slogans, Papel 2 com Frota Maull
Class 5– Bodhicitta in Everyday Life com Susan Skjei
Class 6– The Bodhisattva Vow with Susan Chapman