Special Insight (Vipashyana) Meditation Course

This course will be given in PERSON or ONLINE.

As prerequisite for this course, we recommend you to have finished the study of Deeper Lamrim Course (100 hours) or at least having completed the Lamrim Introduction Course and having followed other courses or having already studied and practiced Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy since few years.

The course will be given on Sunday Mornings from 9:00 to 11:00 AM (Toronte EST Timezone), at these dates (7 dates):

Sept. 18, Sept. 25, Oct. 9, Oct. 23, Nov. 6, Nov. 13 and Nov.27

All of Buddha's teachings are leading us to happiness, and this path call be included into two qualities : calm-abiding (shamatha) and special insight (vipashyana). The calm-abiding is the method which pacifies our mind, bringing it to a single-pointed concentration conjoined with suppleness and bliss. This method serves as a foundation to develop special insight.

In order to develop special insight, we need to study, contemplate and meditate the teachings on emptiness, using a combination of analytical meditation and concentration meditation. This course will include also periods of meditation.

Teacher for this course : Tenzin Gawa (Jason)

You are most welcome in person. If you cannot join in person, you can also join Online. We really appreciate to see you when you can open your camera. We will be recording the course, but as there is great benefit to listen it live, we will send recordings only on request, in case you missed one course because of impediment or if you want to listen it again.

For this course, we will study with the book How to Meditate (new version), available on order or in the Centre : https://www.buddhistmeditationtoronto.org/product-page/how-to-meditate-1

Take care!