INTRODUCTION TO BUDDHISM
TUSHITA MEDITATION CENTRE
OVERVIEW
This course introduces the core Buddhist principals using the framework of the Four Noble Truths - the foundation of all Buddhist traditions.

The course then looks at how the Mahayana expands upon this basis and how the Vajrayana expands upon the Mahayana. Within the Mahayana the course provides a more detailed discussion of the two wings of practice of wisdom and compassion in terms of how to cultivate the wisdom of emptiness (shunyata) and how to develop the compassionate aspiration of bodhicitta. Finally the course looks at how the stages of the path to enlightenment (LAMRIM) is laid out within the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism.

This  course provides a mixture of theory and practice with the last two days just focusing on meditation.
FACILITATORS
Glen Svensson 
(classes)
Renato Schnoell 
(meditations)
MATERIALS
Introduction to Buddhism
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Suffering & its Causes
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Three Vehicles
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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 (meditations)
DAY 9 (meditations)
DAY 10 (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.” 
​                                                                                                                                                                                               Rupert Spira (The Nature of Consciousness)