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THE TEACHER – Lama Thierry, a Swiss "yogi" will guide us in this training. After twelve years as a Buddhist monk (6 of them in retreat), Lama-la now resides at our center. He speaks from his own experience, finds vibrant everyday examples that we can identify with, and refers to his extensive knowledge of the Tibetan scriptures on the subject.

THE EXPERIENCE – The Buddhist mind training known as Lojong is a complete toolbox, full of easy-to-use exercises and methods to strengthen our compassion and bodhicitta. By learning how to focus and calm our mind with the meditation technique "shamata", we create a sound foundation to ground our mind training on. This simple, yet effective technique teaches us to direct our awareness, rather than being carried away by thoughts. Thereby we become able to use our mind in a more beneficial way for ourselves and others.

THE TEACHER – Lama Bruce Newman is an authoritative teacher whose teachings arise from his personal experience in meditation, retreat and study in both East and West. A practitioner and teacher for 45 years, Lama Bruce also completed a four-year retreat. He has received extensive training in the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages from many high lamas.

THE EXPERIENCE – The Jewel Ornament of Liberation is a masterpiece of Tibetan Buddhism written by Gampopa (1074-1153 CE). For more than eight centuries, this text has provided a complete foundation for the study and practice of Buddhism – from initial entry into the path, to the attainment of Buddhahood. Lama Bruce's curriculum has one important goal: to help students of all levels of experience integrate the various teachings and practices they have received over the years, that is, to transform intellectual understanding into a spiritual experience of genuine change and growth.

THE TEACHER – Lama Bruce Newman is an authoritative teacher whose teachings arise from his personal experience in meditation, retreat and study in both East and West. A practitioner and teacher for 45 years, Lama Bruce also completed a four-year retreat. He has received extensive training in the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages from many high lamas.

THE EXPERIENCE – Every second Friday, starting from 19th March at 7pm CET (please mind the time change in late March), Lama Bruce will lead a class on integrating the Dharma into our own experience. The class will feature guided meditations and discussion on how to enhance our meditation. We will have supportive dialogues on how to delve deeper into our practice now that most of us are staying at home and on how to use meditation to deal with our anxiety and other reactions to the great changes that are happening both to ourselves and the world around us. We will be acquiring skills that are applicable to any meditation one would be doing and not limited to what we are doing in class. 

THE TEACHER – Lama Thierry, a Swiss "yogi" will guide us in this training. After twelve years as a Buddhist monk (6 of them in retreat), Lama-la now resides at our center. He speaks from his own experience, finds vibrant everyday examples that we can identify with, and refers to his extensive knowledge of the Tibetan scriptures on the subject.

THE EXPERIENCE – This series, spread over 10 weekends throughout the year, will share with you the ancient Buddhist wisdom of Lojong (Mind Training). The main practice will be Tonglen (Giving & Taking), and each weekend seminar will focus on a different key aspect of this teaching, including the four mind-changings, refuge, bodhicitta, the six paramitas, meditation, Guru Yoga and ultimate Bodhicitta, Chenrezig practice, and much more. Grounded within the main practice of Tonglen and its key aspects, this series provides a step-by-step program of an entire path. 

THE TEACHER – Throughout his career as a Silicon Valley technology entrepreneur, and now as an author and innovative Buddhist meditation teacher, Erric Solomon has been interested in understanding the mind and how it functions, both as a user experience designer and as a mind hacker.

THE EXPERIENCE – The key to uncovering Bodhicitta is a fearless commitment to serving all beings. In order to do that we need the foundation of basic sanity, a healthy sense of self — insight into the untouchable wellspring of basic contentment that underlies all experience. Using texts and teachings from the great masters of the past, participants will gain the tools to discover this as living experience. We’ll explore both the spacious, openness that is the basis of all experience, and developing the great love that is the natural expression of our innate wisdom. 

THE TEACHER – Throughout his career as a Silicon Valley technology entrepreneur, and now as an author and innovative Buddhist meditation teacher, Erric Solomon has been interested in understanding the mind and how it functions, both as a user experience designer and as a mind hacker.

THE EXPERIENCE – During this follow-on to the first weekend seminar, Erric will delve even deeper into this topic— the unity of wisdom and compassion. We can intellectually understand the wisdom of emptiness, and we can experience the arising of compassion. Can we experience their unity? Oftentimes, we receive sublime teachings, yet later we begin to doubt what we experienced. This seminar will help you gain authentic confidence in your practice.
Note: Most suitable for those who have attended the first seminar, have participated in Erric’s online course, or more experienced practitioners.