🗓  Duration: 6 consecutive Tuesdays (July 2nd - August 6th)

🕰️  Schedule: 7:00pm - 8:30pm

🗺  Location: Fractal (248 McKibbin St, Brooklyn)

💰  Tuition: Sliding Donation Scale $150 - $300

🧘 No meditation experience required.

☸️ Objective: To give you a comprehensive understanding of Buddhist theory enabling you to develop an effective lifelong meditation practice.

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Course Description

In this age of abundance, all of our basic needs are met. Yet, people are suffering from a new host of challenges such as high-stress, scattered attention, obsession with materiality, and lack of fulfillment. The Buddhist path offers a straightforward training regime to awaken us from this state of discontent.

With a balance between theory and practice, this is an exciting introductory dive into the world of Buddhist meditation. Together we will explore the history and evolution of Buddhist practice through a grounded and progressive sequence of meditation exercises. We will understand how through a basis of morality one can begin to calm the mind and use it to systematically investigate reality.

Each session offers participants a chance to connect with a practice community and develop a felt sense of the magic of present moment. Through shared experience, solid conceptual grounding, a suite of home-practice techniques, participants will cultivate joy and wellbeing through discipline and commitment. Each class consists of half lecture and half guided meditation.

Our six modules of study.

Throughout this course you will receive 100+ pages of readings including Buddhist primary sources, modern writings, and essays. Alongside these texts you will be given a resource document with links to top Buddhist scholarship and practical meditation advice. All of the readings are simply an invitation to engage with the practice at whatever level of depth you are comfortable with.

Testimonials

I am grateful to have taught this course before in-person as well as online. Here is some feedback I’ve received.

About the Instructor

This was during my time at the Jin’e Temple.

Hi. I’m Sasha.

I am a science teacher, writer, and Buddhist meditation practitioner based in New York City. I believe that we all deserve to live deeply wondrous and awakened lives.