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Access to Zen is pleased to host this event with Prajna Fire!
Joining for the whole series is recommended but not required
This program focuses on the five skandhas, or aggregates: the body-mind complex the Buddha identifies as the core of what we experience as "me."
Journey beyond a mere description of each skandha, into the often unexamined depths of our most intimate experiences. With the Buddha's own contemplative technology as guide, together we will cultivate experiential understanding of the body-mind through its five seminal components.
Dialogue, discussion, debate, as well as guided practice during the sessions will be supplemented by readings and contemplative exercises between sessions for those wishing to dive deeper still. This multilayered approach encourages the development of penetrating insight into the workings of the skandhas together and individually, as they shape our experience of ourselves and the world around us.
Additionally, the series cultivates familiarity with the integrative dharma practice of "listening, contemplating, and meditating." The crucible of Buddha's pedagogy for incorporating prajna (precise knowing), this dynamic practice is rarely presented in detail in Dharma centers.
Organic, adaptable, disarmingly simple on its face, and especially suited to modern practitioners, integrative dharma practice is proven effective and universally applicable to any teaching. By empowering practitioners to hone their Dharma practice from within their individual circumstances, it is a potent means for bringing Dharma into everyday life while remaining true to the Buddha's teachings.
Teachers:
Karma Yeshe Chodron and Karma Zopa Jigme are students of Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, and have been full time practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism for over twenty years. Since 2005, they have been teaching and translating Dharma texts and oral teachings from Tibetan to English for the Rigpe Dorje Institute for International Students at Pullahari Monastery in Nepal. In 2016, they successfully completed the traditional Kagyu lineage three-year cloistered retreat at Vajra Vidya Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado, under the auspices of Kyabje Thrangu Rinpoche. They are passionate about sharing traditional methods for transmitting experiential understanding of Buddhadharma with Western students through their international Dharma community, Prajna Fire. Their work has been featured in Tricycle Magazine, Lion's Roar, and Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide. Together, they co-host the Prajna Sparks podcast.
Freely offered & Dana/donation is always appreciated. Give directly:
to Prajna Fire
to A2Z: Venmo: @SuddenLeap-A2Z or PayPal: SuddenLeap.A2Z@gmail.com
Weblink to Prajna Fire’s page on the series
Group Document/Information sheet for Series from Prajna Fire
(readings, practices and such will be added as the weeks go on)
Zoom — ID: 272-155-964
or visit this link.
About 48 hours after each class, video tape of session will be on this sites’ DHARMA TALK webpage
