Build resilience and inner stability with practical Buddhist teachings that calm the mind and open the heart. This course introduces mind training (lojong), compassion (bodhicitta), and wisdom through meditation, reflection, and discussion. Discover the simple tools to meet life’s challenges with clarity, patience, and compassion.
In Happy Relationships, Kimberly Brown offers Buddhist practices to build joyful connections, teaching compassion, gratitude, and wise boundaries to nurture lasting bonds. Open to all, no meditation experience needed.
Lojong “mind training” teaches us how to transform problems into opportunities for deep spiritual growth. Learn lojong techniques to lessen fear, regret and confusion in the death transition and throughout life.
The course "Wise Paths to the Heart" guides participants in nurturing warm-heartedness, transitioning to compassion, exploring immeasurable qualities, deepening wisdom, and cultivating a compassionate mindset.
Kimberly Brown reads from her book, shares her own experiences of loss, and leads brief mediations to help anyone suffering with loss.
Shantideva Center welcomes meditation teacher Stephan Pende as he leads an in-depth guided reading of the Dalai Lama's book How to See Yourself as You Really Are–which is actually a tightly focused and clear meditation program for learning to see the world and ourselves as we actually exist, without the overlay of false imagination.
In this four-session course, we explore how to cultivate and sustain a meditation practice. Establishing an enduring practice, one that leads to lasting happiness, requires sustained effort.
Ven. Robina Courtin returns to Shantideva Center, bringing a bounty of teachings in her characteristic big-hearted, no-nonsense style!
Ven. Yönten helps us distinguish love from attachment, and how love allows us to enjoy our relationships. Presented with logic and humor, meditation and discussion, this course is the perfect antidote to the perils of attachment.
A mind-opening meditation on the true nature of compassion.
