One-Time Events

Clearing the Mind for Loving-Kindness:
The Art of Happiness in the Indian and
Tibetan Traditions

Anticipating current positive psychology and neurobiology, Buddhist contemplative science sees our ability to cope with the emotional challenges of our complex social lives as the main variable affecting our health, happiness and wellbeing.

From the art of loving-kindness to Zen compassion and the mind-training of Tibet, all Buddhist traditions offer powerful methods for transforming reactive social emotions like anger, attachment and shame into the healing elixirs of love, care, joy and peace. This transformational art may be the single most protective and effective healing practice for lay students facing the social stresses of life in our challenging world.

This evening talk reunites two great streams of this art, the loving-kindness tradition taught by Sharon Salzberg and the mind-training tradition taught by Joe Loizzo. Their dialogue and guided meditations will weave together the ways these twin traditions teach the essentials of equanimity, self-analysis, building compassion and transforming adversity, using the tools of mindfulness, insight meditation, breath awareness and visualization.

Instructors: Dr. Joe Loizzo and Sharon Salzberg

Dates: Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012

Schedule:7–9pm

Co-sponsorship:Tibet House US

Location: Tibet House US, 22 West 15th Street (between Fifth and Sixth Avenues)

Tuition: General: $25 / Tibet House members: $22.50

Registration: Tibet House US