We are hybrid on Tuesday evenings, meaning you can come in person or join on Zoom! This is a great opportunity to stay connected and find some inspiration. Led meditation, Dharma talks, and engaged discussion. All are welcome, even if you have zero experience! By donation, $5-$15 suggested (you can donate online here).
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Our Current Series:
The Heart’s Awakening — Making Buddhism’s heart-based practices really work for us
Bodhipaksa delights in making Buddhist teachings more accessible, and his new book, “The Heart’s Awakening,” aims to do that for the four practices known as the Brahma Viharas.
He takes a fresh look at this entire series of practices, sometimes reframing them in unexpected ways. For example, the term Brahma Vihara itself can be translated not only as “Divine Abidings” but also as “the best ways of living our lives,” emphasizing that they’re practices for daily life, and not just things we do on the cushion.
Over the course of four weeks Bodhipaksa will explain:
- What the missing link is in many people’s practice of metta bhavana and the other Brahma Viharas
- Why he thinks we should talk about “kindness" rather than lovingkindness
- How self-compassion is an essential support for having compassion for others (and why neither self-compassion nor compassion for others need to be dour experiences)
- Why mudita is “appreciation” rather than “empathetic (or sympathetic) joy,” and
- How the practice of upekkha goes beyond equanimity and how it has the role of bringing us back to kindness, compassion, and appreciation when our capacity to love has failed us.
In short, we’ll explore how to awaken the heart’s potential for love and see how these beautiful practices can lead us toward awakening itself.
Oct 21 Metta: What I Wish I’d Known 43 Years Ago
Oct 28 Karuna: Compassion, Self-Compassion, and Joy
Nov 4 Mudita: Appreciating and Encouraging the Skillful
Nov 11 Upekkha: Beyond Equanimity
All are welcome to our weekly gathering which includes led meditation, a short talk and discussion. These supportive and friendly community evenings are perfect for getting started with meditation and Buddhism, or for going deeper in your practice. This is a wonderful way to make friends and to explore deeper meaning in one’s life.
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How are we coming together safely?
- If you know you have been exposed to Covid-19 or if you have had Covid-19 within a five day period of the event’s start-time, we ask that you not attend in-person.
- If you have cold or flu symptoms, we ask that you do not attend in-person.
Zoom options are available for some events. Transfer of fees or refunds are also available for illness or illness-preventative related absence. Please email info@aryaloka.org if you have any questions, or health related concerns.
14 Heartwood Circle
Newmarket, NH 03857
United States
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