General Program Classes Mondays Sep 2007 - Jun 2008
“Peaceful Mind Peaceful World”
Suggested Donation - $10
Classes on Mondays at 7:00-8:30 pm in Room 252 in the Education Building, Myers Park Baptist Church, 1931 Selwyn Avenue, Charlotte, N.C. 28207.
These classes are intended to help you develop positive ways of thinking that you can take with you into your daily life, and enable you to find happiness within your own mind. If you apply the meditations and ways of thinking that you learn in these classes you may expect to find that your life will become more peaceful, your relationships with others at home and at work will improve and your daily stress and anguish will diminish. You may find yourself smiling more often. You will be able to develop your own beautiful life, and gradually help others to do the same.
Dates in 2007 & 2008
| Eight Steps to Happiness, The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness | |
| Sep 10-24 | Buddhist Meditation practices for mental peace. |
| Oct 15-Nov 5 | Cherishing Others. The simple path to enlightenment. |
| Nov 12-Dec 3 | Compassion, Wishing Love, and Patience |
| Dec 10-17 | Taking on Others Suffering and Giving them Happiness, and the Precious Mind of (Bodhichitta) Altruism |
| Buddhist Wisdom in Everyday Life | |
| Jan 7-28 | The Wisdom of Basic Buddhist View: The nature of Mind; Past & Future Lives; Karma; Suffering and its Causes; Freedom |
| Feb 4-11 | Exploring the Self, who am I, what am I, creating your self, how does the self exist? The problems of self, overcoming the problems of focusing on self, self-cherishing as the source of all problems, what is self-improvement? Becoming selfless |
| Feb 18-25 | Exploring Relationships I. If Love Conquers All, What is Love? Who should I love? How should I love? Why should I love? When should I love? How much should I love? Obstacles to love: anger, jealousy, pride, attachment. Meditations on love. |
| March 3-24 | Exploring Relationships II; self & other, what and how should I give to others? How should I behave towards others? How should I react to harm and difficulty? |
| March 31-Apr 21 | Dealing with Anger. The costs and disadvantages of anger, the benefits & practice of patience, using wisdom and compassion to overcome anger. |
| Apr 28-May 12 | Faith, Freedom and Spirituality; the nature and good qualities of faith. Faith in what? What is freedom, and how is it obtained? How to develop faith. How faith leads to freedom and peace. |
| Jun 2-16 | The Kadampa Buddhist Way of Life: Atisha's Advice and Je Tsongkhapa's Three Principal aspects of the Path |
Some Alternative Topics
Exploring and Understanding the Mind 4. Primary minds and mental factors; conceptual and non-conceptual mids; direct and indirect knowledge; all-important and all-accompanying mental factors, virtuous and non-virtuous minds, valid and non-valid minds. Mistaken and non-mistaken minds.
Dealing with Death, Grief and Loss: What is death? Certainty and unpredictability. Impermanence, expectations, Loss, grief, loneliness, What happens during and after death.
Mindfulness, Altertness and Conscientiousness, & Correct Actions
The Wisdom of Sound and Mantra 1
Happiness and Suffering: accumulating one and avoiding the other 4 Lojong
General Program classes resume on September 10th. Check the
calendar
to view the detailed schedule or check back here soon for dates and topics.