Course Title: Living Life and Death Fully: The Buddhist Path of Openness and Equanimity as Guided by Pema Chodron and Susan Chapman
Instructor: Dr. Jerry Webster
Brought to you by Odyssey
September 10, 2024 - October 8, 2024 (5 Sessions)
Tuesday, 6:30 PM ET
Virtual via Zoom
Course Description: In Pema Chodron’s work How We Live Is How We Die, Chodron outlines and details the primary Tibetan Buddhist viewpoint of how to embrace life’s manifold challenges fully and wholeheartedly. Chodron’s scope encompasses each day of our ordinary lives and then carries into our own deaths. Her view and her techniques rest firmly on the meditation teachings and practices of Tibetan masters, such as the Dalai Lama and Tsoknyi Rinpoche and Mingyur Rinpoche.
Chodron sees life, all of its joys and sadnesses, as a constant flow of endings and beginnings. She offers guidance in entering, remaining and flourishing in the midst of this flow. Susan Gillis Chapman, Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist, bases her book Which Way Is Up: Finding Heart in the Hardest of Times on working with these very teachings and techniques outlined by Chodron and other teachers. This includes being with her own cancer struggles during the pandemic. Both Pema’s and Chapman’s books are up close and personal looks at maintaining openness, courage, and equanimity during some of life’s most challenging moments.
Meditation Instruction and close reading of Chodron’s and Chapman’s texts will be integral parts of this class. There will be experiential exercises using awareness practices from both texts.
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