spring class 2012
Clearing the Mind:
The Gradual Path of Self-Transformation
(also part of our 4-year program)
Like current brain science and psychotherapy, the Nalanda tradition sees our ability to cope with our complex social lives as the main variable affecting our health and happiness. Our struggle with alienation and social stress comes from a self-protective reflex in which our reactive self locks onto childhood trauma and blocks the social-emotional skills we need to live well in our world.
This fourth class in the Four-Year Program teaches the contemplative art and science of social-healing and self-transformation based on the practice of clearing the mind (lo-jong), refined at Nalanda and distilled in Chekawa's Seven Point Mind Training. Integrating all three vehicles of Buddhist thought in one format tailored to lay life in a stress-driven world, mind-clearing teaches an industrial strength version of loving-kindness Dr. Loizzo calls social-emotional Kung-fu. As for practice, the class combines deep mindfulness and insight meditation with the transformational arts of giving-and-taking and role-modeling imagery.
Prerequisites: some exposure to mindfulness, loving-kindness, hatha yoga or the gradual path.
Instructor: Dr. Joe Loizzo
Dates: 8 consecutive Mondays, March 26th – May 14th
Schedule: Monday evenings from 7-9PM
Location: Tibet House US, 22 West 15th Street (between Fifth and Sixth Avenues)
Tuition:$160 (or $20 per meeting)
Registration:Tibet House US
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