Winter 2012 Schedule

Venez méditer, écouter de brèves causeries et partager avec d'autres méditants francophones. Le déroulement de chaque soirée sera différent d'une fois à l'autre et dépendra beaucoup de ce que les participants désirent.

Les soirées francophones pour l'année 2011-2012 auront chacune pour thème un texte du Sakyong Mipham Rinpoché traduit en français. Ces textes se trouvent dans le document suivant: Textes_du_Sakyong.pdf

25 janvier              Je crois en l'amour

29 février              L'esprit du dragon et le pouvoir du non-soi

28 mars               Quatre manières de régner sur notre monde

25 avril                La pratique personnelle

23 mai                 Voir que l'essence des phénomènes est la sagesse

Bienvenue à tous et toutes. Entrée libre.

Lojong (literally, “mind training”) slogan practice is a way to bring compassion, clarity and peace into all of our relationships. This course explores the mahayana slogans of Atisha, a 10th-century Indian Buddhist master, in conjunction with the practice of exchanging self for other—tonglen.

Recommended readings: (on sale at the Shambhala Centre):

Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche: Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving Kindness

Pema Chödrön, The Compassion Box (includes Lojong cards, CD and book: Start Where you Are)

Instructor : Suzanne Côté

Open to all. This course is part of the Way of Shambhala II curriculum.
Suggested donation: $50.

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Jan. 12: Can We Bring Our Mindfulness to Work?

Apr. 12: iMeditate: Can Technology Help Our Practice? 

All welcome.

What makes art, art? What is the source of creativity? How is meditation connected to the creative process? In Shambhala Art, we learn to use clear perception to realize direct expression. We discover that our perception of art, if not also everyday life, is connected to our ability to pacify our mind and let go of fixation to appreciate all the details of our life. Our aim is to experience the joy of genuine expression.

Workshop taught by Stéphane Bédard, Ikebana Master and Shambhala Art Senior Instructor.

Please note that there are no prerequisites for this Program: everyone is invited, artists and non-artists alike.

To register, please email art@shambhalaottawa.ca

For more information, please send your email to: art@shambhalaottawa.ca

Open to all: no prerequisites.
Suggested donation: $145 (includes teas, reception and materials).

This course will delve into the richness of the wisdom lineages of Shambhala Buddhism, introducing central figures in our tradition, and how their lives and teachings serve as up-to-date examples for practitioners.

The course will explore how teachers play a central role in transmitting the paths of study and practice to their students. It will consider the student/teacher relationship from various aspects: trust in the teacher and teachings, faith in our own innate wisdom, and the resulting devotion that sees the world as teacher.

Instructors : Heather Alinsangan and Shastri Henry Chapin

Readings: Lineage and Devotion Sourcebook (on sale at the Shambhala Centre)

Prerequisite: Shambhala Training Level III
Suggested donation: $50.00 (or $10.00 per class)

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A five week course on how to train the mind through the practice of mindfulness, or “peaceful abiding”, meditation. Ideal for beginners as well as students who would like to stabilize and deepen their practice.

The course will give students a basic grounding in the principles of meditation, as well as contemplative techniques to gain insight into the state of our mind and the state of our life.

Instructor : David Fowler

Readings: Turning the Mind Into an Ally by Sakyong Mipham (on sale at the Shambhala Centre).

Open to all.
Suggested donation: $50.00 (or $10.00 per class)

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This workshop will be taught by Stéphane Bédard, Ikebana Master and Shambhala Art Senior Instructor.

To register, please email art@shambhalaottawa.ca.

Open to all: no prerequisites.
Suggested donation: $145 (includes teas, reception and materials).

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This course is an introduction to the principles of vajrayana and provides a direct and experiential picture of the tantric world.

"When we talk about the tantric world, we are talking about this visual, auditory, sensory world, which has not been explored or looked at properly. Nobody has bothered to actually experience it. People just take it for granted. [...] The point of tantra is to reintroduce the world to us. Having developed a calmness of mind already in our practice of meditation, we can begin to re-view the world." (Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche)

Instructors : Bozica Costigliola and Don Adams

Readings: All readings will be from the book "Journey Without Goal" by Chögyam Trungpa (available at the Shambhala Centre).

Shambhala Training Level III, Karma and the 12 Nidanas or at least 2 Buddhist classes.
Suggested donation: $50

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Wakefulness is our natural state: enlightened, complete, perfect in wisdom and compassion. It is not something outside ourselves that we need to attain or become. But it's also true that some effort is required to get in touch with it, and that effort is what spiritual practice is about.

This course is based on a book by Acharya Gaylon Ferguson which describes that effort in terms of the four foundations of mindfulness: body, feeling, mind, and sense fields.

Instructor : Suzanne Côté

Suggested donation: $50.00

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