Annual New Year's Retreat
Real Happiness: Discovering
the Nature of Reality
Sharon Salzberg, Robert Thurman,
Carolyn Christie, & Brooke Myers
December 28, 2012 - January 1, 2013
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Mind, said Buddha, is the key to both happiness and unhappiness. The untrained mind, only partially conscious, is often a victim of itself. During much of our waking life, we are not actually aware of what our minds are doing. All kinds of negative inclinations are continually being reinforced and we act because of thoughts of which we are only marginally aware. The Buddha taught mindfulness to counter this tendency, to wake us up from mindlessness, and to help us move forward to live with the enormous capacity we have as human beings for wisdom and compassion.
The most important function of mindfulness is to serve as a platform for waking up to reality: who we are, the truths of change and interdependence, where happiness actually comes from. Most particularly, at the heart of the Buddha's teaching is a vexing proposition: that the self as we conventionally experience it is a fiction. What does this mean? Can we really understand it? What are the implications for how we live our lives?
This workshop will explore, discuss and make possible an experience of a more true happiness, one infused with reality, wakefulness, wisdom and compassion, as we begin the new year. Join these four wonderful teachers in setting intentions for and ringing in 2013!
For all levels of interest & experience.
Sharon Salzberg is cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Barre, Massachusetts. She is one of America's leading spiritual teachers and authors, and has been a student of Buddhism since 1971, leading meditation retreats worldwide since 1974.
Robert Thurman is Professor of Indo-Tibetan Studies at Columbia University, President of Tibet House U.S., a popular lecturer on Tibetan Buddhism, the translator of many philosophical treatises and sutras, and author of numerous books.
Carolyn Christie began her study of both Buddhism and yoga in 1987. She presently studies with Gyumed Khensur Rinpoche and Professor Robert Thurman. Carolyn is a faculty member at the Iyengar Yoga Institute of New York and is certified as Junior Intermediate 3. She regularly studies in India with the Iyengar family.
Brooke Myers began the study of yoga in her 20's as a member of an experimental theatre company. She studied Iyengar Yoga with the late Mary Dunn and with the Iyengar family. She is a founding member of The Iyengar Institute of NY, and has a wide knowledge of yoga for special needs.
