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Drawing on the Unconditional Love and Wisdom of our Buddha Nature

Online Program
Dates: Sep 03, 2022 - Sep 04, 2022

Instructor(s): John Makransky

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In this weekend-long program, we will explore ways of accessing and settling into primordial awareness, also known as our buddha nature, through practices adapted from Tibetan Buddhism (Dzogchen tradition). By participating in an empowering field of loving spiritual connection, we can become increasingly receptive to the unconditioned openness, clarity, and compassionate capacity of our buddha nature. Then, we can draw on that innate capacity to cultivate unconditional powers of awareness, love, and compassion for all parts of ourselves and others. This program is both for practitioners who identify as Buddhists and for people of other faiths and backgrounds who seek an accessible way to cultivate unconditional love and wisdom for action. Guided meditations, explanation of key principles, Q&A, and small group discussion will inform our collective practice.

Commitment to attend all sessions of the program is required. Keeping your video on is encouraged (but not required) to support a communal practice environment. 

Interested participants should read as much as possible of John Makransky’s book, Awakening through Love, before the program. 


Prerequisites:

Any level of Buddhist meditation experience or contemplative practice experience in another spiritual tradition.

    About the Instructor(s):
  • John Makransky, PhD, is a professor of Buddhism and Comparative Theology at Boston College, senior advisor for Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche’s Centre of Buddhist Studies in Nepal, a fellow of the Mind and Life Institute, and developer of the Sustainable Compassion Training model for accessing innate capacities of compassion and awareness. John's scholarly writings have focused on connections between practices of devotion, compassion and non-dual wisdom in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, on adapting Buddhist practices to meet contemporary minds, and on theoretical issues in interfaith learning. In 2000, John was ordained as a Lama, a meditation teacher of innate compassion and wisdom, within the Nyingma Dzogchen tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.  As a meditation teacher, John is known for guiding participants in their discovery of underlying powers of unconditional love and wisdom. For the past twenty-five years, John has taught meditations of innate compassion and wisdom, adapted from Tibetan Buddhism, for modern Buddhists, those in other spiritual traditions, and for people in caring roles and professions.