HEART SUTRA
TUSHITA MEDITATION CENTRE
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OVERVIEW
The Heart Sutra contains the essence of the perfection of wisdom teachings, describing in a very succinct manner the nature of reality and how to go about cultivating the wisdom realizing the nature of reality, the wisdom of emptiness (Skt. shunyata). Without realizing the nature of reality we will not be able to fully liberate ourselves from suffering.

In this course we systematically go through the Heart Sutra looking at how to develop the correct view of emptiness and how then to cultivate the wisdom of emptiness along the various stages of the path to enlightenment.

Recommended Reading
The Essence of the Heart Sutra – His Holiness the Dalai Lama
The Heart Attack Sutra – Karl Brunnholzl
The Heart of Understanding – Thich Nhat Hanh
How to See Yourself as You Really Are – His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Insight into Emptiness – Khensur Jampa Tegchok 
How to Realize Emptiness – Gen. Lamrimpa
FACILITATORS
Glen Svensson 
(classes)
Jonas Andersson 
(meditations)
MATERIALS
Heart Sutra materials
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File Type: pdf
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DAY 1 ('right click' to download)
DAY 2 (classes & meditations)
DAY 3 (classes & meditations)
DAY 4 (classes & meditations)
DAY 5 (classes & meditations)
DAY 6 (classes & meditations)
DAY 7 (classes & meditations)
DAY 8 (classes & meditations)
DAY 9 (advice)
"When we travel, we experience a series of thoughts, sensations and perceptions, but the field of awareness in which these thoughts, sensations and perceptions move or, more accurately, of which they are a self-colouring, never goes anywhere. The common name for this field is ‘here and now’.

Filtered through thought, the now of this field seems to be a moment in time. Filtered through the prism of perception, the here of this field seems to be a place in space. But the now that seems to be a moment in time, and the here that seems to be a place in space, are windows onto eternity and infinity. The true now, the only now, is the eternal now. And the true here, the place in which experience takes place, is the dimensionless presence of awareness. It never goes anywhere.” 
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