Calm-abiding Meditation Course

meditationSaturdays March 11, 18, 25 and April 1

10 am – 11 am (20 minutes sitting, Break, 20 minutes sitting)

Samatha, means “calm, tranquil.” Samatha meditation is an effective, gentle way of training the mind to reduce negative and limiting thoughts. In practicing calm-abiding meditation, we can increase our ability to concentrate, control our over-active, unfocused minds and enjoy a sense of peace and tranquility.

As a continuation of the Introduction to Meditation course May, 2016, this course will focus on practicing calm abiding meditation, and is suitable for beginners as well as those who participated in the previous course.

The first day session will begin with Geshe la giving a brief review on calm abiding meditation. The following three sessions will primarily be group practice/sittings.

To help us prepare a comfortable experience, please register before: 5 March 2017 (updated from Feb 26) Spaces filled, you may register and if there is an opening we will let you know.

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You can also register by contacting the below, or if you have any questions/comments.

Email: jtclcalgary@gmail.com

Phone: Lynn (430) 235-0765

 

Our events are open to the public and free of charge.

Events are open to attend in-person, and are often cast on Zoom.

Our resident teacher is available for private consultation by appointment.

Our Address:
Jam Tse Cho Ling Tibetan Buddhist Temple Calgary
924 36 St SE
Calgary, Alberta   T2A 1B9
Canada

Phone:
587-434-4011

Email:
contact@jtclcalgary.ca

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  • Tibetan word of the day: གཞི་གྲུབ་

    གཞི་གྲུབ་

    Established basis

    Spelling (jorlok; Tib. སྦྱོར་ཀློག་) and pronunciation:
    གཞི་ – ga-o zha gigu zhi
    གྲུབ་ – ga ra-tak dra zhabkyu dru ba drub
    zhi drub

    From class notes:

    “First, what must be understood is this: the established basis (Tib. གཞི་གྲུབ་ gzhi grub), object of knowledge (Tib. ཤེས་བྱ་ shes bya), existence (Tib. ཡོད་པ་ yod pa), and phenomena (Tib. ཆོས་ chos) are all of one meaning.

    The meaning of an established basis is that which is established by valid cognition (Skt. pramāṇa).”

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