Online: What’s Real? Intro to Buddhism

SCHEDULE Based on Bhutan 
3:30 PM Septemer 18
2:30 PM October 2
2:30 PM October 9
2:30 PM October 16
2:30 PM October 23
2:30 PM October 30th

ABOUT THE 6-Week COURSE
What is real? What does really matter in life? How can we deal with the many ups and downs that we face? In this 6-week-course, Rinpoche will encourage us to look deeper into the very nature of our experience for developing insight into what is truly meaningful in life.

Although the sheer extensiveness and profundity of the Buddhist teachings may easily overwhelm a newcomer, Rinpoche teaches it in a way that is suitable for everyone. With his simplicity and directness, he invites us to focus upon the essence of the teachings and, from that, to step by step expand our understanding further.

INTRODUCTION TO THIS COURSE
Can we live our lives without any problem whatsoever? The answer is no. Unfortunately, this is not possible. Is there then any solution for this limitation? Yes, and the solution is very surprising: it has to do with the fact that actually there is nothing ‘real’. All of what we think is ‘reality’ is not reality at all. There is no ‘real reality’, neither for me nor for you. And yes, we all have a lot of fixations and neurosis which we think are real. Worse than that, we wrongly think we are actually very sophisticated. 

There is no real reality, but we create many temporary realities. In order to get more clarity regarding those, we call them ‘relative reality’. Until we do not break our fixations and bring clarity to our minds, we are not free from anything at all. In this course we will learn how to free ourselves. It is indeed a gradual process, we need to remove our veils of obscurations layer by layer.

SUMMARY OF THE CLASSES:
1 – Schrödinger’s Cat – Deceptive Appearances: why and how do things appear?
2 – The Mind Makes the Difference – Attitudes, perspectives and emotions: how to make them useful?
3 – Interconnected Realities – Understanding the connection between all of our life experiences: how to manage them well? What does interdependent relationship mean?
4 – The Power of Clarity and Decision – With clarity in what to rely on, we can learn to take every situation as an opportunity
5 – Body & Mind Relationship – Looking in detail at the body and mind relationship: how to make our own minds much more pure and powerful, so that even our bodies rejuvenate?
6 – Death: The Greatest Magic Trick of All Time  – The so-called death is actually an unusual opportunity to break through our relative reality. How to understand that we actually never die and how to take it as an opportunity?

SUGGESTED TEXTS

Unveiling Your Sacred Truth Book 1

HOW DO I ACCESS THE COURSE?
After you register prior to the online course, you will be sent an email containing all of the information to log into learn.dzokden.org and follow along. The course will be held through “Zoom“. In order to access the sessions, you need to download the Zoom App onto the device through which you want to join.

We will provide you with the Zoom link (as well as Zoom Meeting-ID and Password) created by Dzokden. You will need this link (or alternatively Zoom Meeting-ID and Password) to access the online sessions. The Zoom link (as well as Zoom Meeting-ID and Password) will be provided at the latest two days before the online event in your email as well as in the Dzokden learning center.
Access to Video Materials Afterwards

The retreat access and all the prayers will be provided for you in Dzokden’s new online learning center (Khentrul Rinpoche’s International Organization). We encourage everyone to connect to the live-streamed retreat in real time but if that is not possible, you can still log in to the learning center after the retreat and access all of the retreat content. This retreat material will not be accessible online to people outside of the learning center.

ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS?
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