Mindfulness, Compassionate Action, and the Wisdom of Emptiness
with Jon Aaron
6 Week Course on Thursdays, April 18th – May 23rd 2019 | 10:00am – 12:00pm
How does meditation practice inform our engagement with the world today?
As we walk the path between the absolute and ultimate reality do we allow appropriate response to arise when confronted with the challenges we face today?
The ideal of the Bodhisattava—implicit in the early Buddhist teachings and explicit in the later teachings—is compassion in action. Compassionate action arises in the space of emptiness when we let go of the clinging to self.
This class will explore the Bodhisattva ideal – its place in the early teachings and some of the primary texts of later teachings. Most important however we will explore how compassionate action arises in us, when is it blocked, and how we bring our practice and wisdom into the world. This course is open to all and appropriate to all levels of experience.
Registration
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Teacher(s)
Jon Aaron
Jon has been a teacher at NYI since 2006. His principal dharma teachers have been Matthew Flickstein of The Forest Way and Kittisaro and Thanissara of The Sacred Mountain Sangha. He is a Certified Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Teacher and Teacher Trainer and has taught over 100 cycles of the seminal curriculum. He leads retreats in the US and in Europe. He is the co-guiding teacher of the Makom Meditation Havurah program at the Jewish Community Center. He is a certified Somatic Experience Practitioner® and an Accredited teacher of Mindfulness for Heath from Breathworks in the UK. Jon is a co-founder of the MBSR Teachers Collaborative of Greater New York, and a founding member of the Global Mindfulness Collaborative. Recently with his partner Upayadhi, he established Space2Meditate.