Calm Abiding Meditation Course - A 5 Session Intensive

🙏 Intensive course in Calm-Abiding (Shamatha) Meditation 🙏 Sunday afternoons, 1:00 – 4:30 PM, Oct 4 - 18, Nov 15 - 22 🙏 At Center Space, in St Andrews Center 🙏 1918 Union Avenue, Chattanooga TN 37405 🙏 IN-PERSON and ONLINE 🙏 Tuition $115 including text, $95 if you have the text 🙏 Scholarships available on request Find calm in an uncalm world – learn Calm-Abiding (Concentration) Meditation in an intensive 5-session course, in-person and online. In our current times, perhaps more than ever, meditation can be a path to calming the mind and lessening afflictive emotions; a way to finding calm in an uncalm world. This class is meant for beginners as well as for more advanced meditators. Our groups are often made up of first-time meditators, but there are many who have already practiced meditation and are seeking another method or who wish to learn in a different tradition. We teach from the perspective of the Tibetan Buddhist Gelug lineage – the lineage of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. However, it is not necessary to be a Buddhist and the teachings are applicable in any path. Over the 5 weeks of the course, we will first explore the origins of the Buddhist teachings on meditation, the advantages of calm-abiding and special insight, and preparing our minds for hearing the teachings. We will train in the preliminaries – how to prepare a space for meditation and how to develop the motivation for practice – and the conditions for developing calm-abiding and deep mental focus. Then the main focus will be to explore in depth the path to attaining calm-abiding by understanding the obstacles to calm-abiding and the antidotes to those obstacles, and in so doing to progress along the 9 stages to calm-abiding. More information and registration at: https://bit.ly/4pCO4Vk