Sustainable Compassion Training

Unconditional Compassion and Deep Interfaith Learning
2021-10-10 | Online
Teacher(s): John Makransky, Rabbi Sheila Weinberg
Developed by John Makransky with a teaching team, sustainable compassion training is adapted from Tibetan Buddhism into a form accessible to people of all spiritual backgrounds who wish to access a power of love and compassion that can be more sustaining and unconditional. Rabbi Sheila Weinberg has been a rabbi for 34 years and is one of the founders of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality. In this day of learning and practice, John will share his sustainable compassion understandings and practices. And Sheila will offer texts, insights and interpretations from Jewish sources that are illuminated by these practices. Preparing for the Days Of Awe and new beginnings will be one among several central themes.
Registration information will be posted in August.
For information, please go to Empowering Unconditional Compassion Through Deep Interfaith Learning.

Unconditional Love as a Doorway Into, and Expression of, the Nature of the Mind
2021-09-19 09:30 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Insight Meditation Center of Pioneer Valley, 116 Pleasant St #242, Easthampton, MA, 01027, United States
Teacher(s): John Makransky
Online day retreat with John Makransky. 9:30am to 3pm. For information and registration, go to:
https://www.flipcause.com/secure/event_step2/MTE2Njky/113777

Accessing our Buddha Nature with support from psychological science
2021-08-27 17:00 - 2021-08-29 17:00 | Wonderwell Mountain Refuge, 253 Philbrick Hill Road, Springfield, NH, 03748, United States
Teacher(s): John Makransky, Paul Condon
This program will explore ways of accessing and settling into our innate awakened awareness through practices adapted from Tibetan Buddhism (Nyingma Dzogchen) with support from modern psychological science. By participating in an empowering field of loving spiritual connection, we can become increasingly receptive to the unconditioned openness, wisdom, and compassionate energy of our buddha nature. Yet parts of us, often unconsciously, tend to prevent us from more fully accessing such qualities of awakening. This is true even for long-time practitioners. To address that, we will focus on ways that healing powers of our buddha nature can help harmonize all parts of ourselves with that nature, so our innate capacities for compassion and wisdom can unfold more freely. Throughout the program, we will also explore how several leading theories in current psychology can inform and empower this process of awakening—attachment theory, embodied cognition, and self-identities and emotions. No scientific background is assumed; these terms and concepts will be introduced in accessible ways.
On-line retreat. For information and registration, go to:
https://naturaldharma.org/schedule/accessing-our-buddha-nature-with-the-support-of-psychological-science/
