The Engaged 8-Fold Path: An 8-Month Life-Course Studies Program

— A basis of Buddhist practice to set us on the course for a meaningful & purposive awake life

8-month Practice Program

The Engaged 4 Noble Truths is a set of teachings which spans all sects of Buddhism. In brief and traditionally, the 4 Noble Truths are: There’s dukkha/suffering/harm in life, there’s a cause/origin to dukkha, there’s the possibility to alleviate dukkha, and there’s a way/path to non-harming. The 8-Fold Path is the 4th Noble Truth; with these aspects:

• Skillful View

• Skillful Motivation

• Skillful Speech

• Skillful Enacting

• Skillful Living

• Skillful Effort

• Skillful Mindfulness

• Skillful Concentration

These 8 aspects are taught as the “steps” along our “path” of life: to cultivate and develop ways to live a life of non-harming. Each month you’ll be presented with traditional and my own social justice-oriented contemporary framing to understanding and apply these aspects in real and every day ways. Each month you’ll be able to learn and practice how they make sense for you in your life and not just as theories and concepts.

We’ll study and apply these aspects in the realms of personal, interactional, and structural/systemic. In this way, our understanding for how to alleviate harm can be applied in our own lives, to our communities, and in the world/on earth itself.

** Fully On-Line participation Note: We’ll do our best to accommodate interactive exercises (if any) to include online participation during the monthly in-person meetings. However, there may be times when each group will have different exercises.

This Program is CLOSED at this time.

Thanks for your interest. You can email info.access2zen@gmail.com to find out when the next cycle begins.