US2024 PLC Discovering the Buddha Within Level 1

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About This Course

DBW Level 1 focuses on calming the mind and developing insight and wisdom through some simple yet profound study, meditations, and contemplations derived from the Shravakayana teachings of the Buddha.
Awareness meditations and precise knowledge will allow students to discover inner peace, accept and let go of worldly concerns without grasping at or rejecting them, and develop a stable aspiration for genuine freedom.
For those new to Buddhism, the practice commitment is to practice at least 10 minutes every day for a minimum of 30 consecutive days. For those who are already practicing the Buddha Dharma, their actual practice will work as the commitment.

What is learned at Level 1

1. Learn the essence of meditation
Develop and nurture awareness and inner peace using breath, body, feelings, thoughts, emotions, and phenomena as a support for meditation. 2. Learn the basics of Buddhism through knowledge and advanced insight meditation
Understand the shortcomings of one's life and the world, the origins and cessation of suffering, and the means to reach that cessation, along with understanding refuge -the starting point of the path to an everlasting state of well-being, rich with innate goodness and radiant pure qualities.
Develop advanced insight meditation mainly based on experiential observation of the natural flow of everything as being impermanent.

Requirements

Open to all.

Masters

N.E. Chungpo Gyalton Rinpoche

Masters H.E. Chungpo Gyalton Rinpoche The previous Gyaltön Rinpoche, Orgyen Jigma Chokyi Senge Gyaltön Rinpoche (1908-1970), was the spiritual leader of the Chungpo Monastery in eastern Tibet. He was one of the principal disciples of the 11th Tai Situpa and Dzongsar Khyentse Chokyi Lodrö. At Tsurphu Monastery, the seat of the Karmapa, the 16th Karmapa awarded him the title of Khenchen, meaning Great Scholar, as did Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche and Chokling Rinpoche, in recognition of his high realization and scholarship. The current Gyaltön Rinpoche, the seventh incarnation, Karma Palden Lungtok Trinley Rangye, was born in Sikkim and was recognized as Gyaltön Tulku in 1983 by Tai Situpa, and was soon thereafter enthroned in the palace temple in Gangtok, Sikkim. Rinpoche speaks fluent English, Hindi, and Nepali, and is perfectly comfortable with Western cultural norms.