Awakening Wisdom: Joy of Living 3 (TI-V-J3-230926)

Overview:

In this course, spread out over eight 2-hour sessions, we will explore the causes of suffering and dissatisfaction through the practice of insight meditation. By bringing our unchallenged beliefs and patterns into the light of awareness, we can see how our rigid ideas often blind us to the richness of our true nature. The wisdom that arises through insight meditation allows us to see our inner experience clearly. This leads to a sense of freedom, well-being, and confidence that is rooted in awareness itself and available to us each and every moment.

In the third level of Joy of Living, Mingyur Rinpoche offers guidance on the practice of insight meditation, a profound form of meditation that uproots the causes of anxiety and suffering.

 

In this level, you will learn:

- How to use insight meditation to break through the distorted ideas that create confusion and suffering

- How to see beyond superficial thoughts and emotions to the basic goodness that lies within

- How our rigid beliefs about ourselves and the world around us keep us locked in a cycle of dissatisfaction and anxiety

- How to see things as they actually are, rather than the mistaken version of reality that we project onto the world

Each session includes experiential video teachings by Mingyur Rinpoche, as well as guided meditations and moderated discussions with Tergar guides.

 

Who can attend this course?

This workshop is open to meditators who have previously attended Calming the Mind: Joy of Living 1 & Opening the Heart: Joy of Living 2 meditation workshops, retreats or online courses, and meet the practice requirements. If you come from another tradition and feel you may meet the prerequisite meditation study and practice requirements in other ways, please contact Jess@tergar.org.

 

When:

8 consecutive weeks on Tuesday afternoons (MT)
September 26th - November 14th

4pm - 6pm MT

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Location:

Online using Zoom – The zoom link will be included in the confirmation email. Additional details and this same Zoom link will be sent by email prior to the start of the workshop.

 

Cost:

*Sponsor fee - $180

*Base Fee - $135

*Reduced fee for those on a limited income (such as seniors and students) - $80

*Special rate for those who have previously completed a Joy of Living 3 workshop, either in-person or online - $80

Please feel free to contact us if cost is a barrier and we will be more than happy to arrange a further discount.

 

Meet the guides:

Tim Olmsted

 
After graduating with a MA in Clinical Social Work from the University of Chicago in 1977, Tim Olmsted moved to Boulder, Colorado to study meditation with the late Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. In 1981, Mingyur Rinpoche’s father, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, was invited to teach in Boulder. Profoundly moved by him, Tim and his family moved to Kathmandu just a few months later to study with Tulku Urgyen and his sons. During the twelve years that he lived in Nepal, Tim studied with many of the most renowned teachers living there and worked as a psychotherapist serving the international community.
 
Since its inception, Tim has been one of the five instructors for Tergar International. Tim now lives with his wife Glenna in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, where he leads an active community that follows Mingyur Rinpoche’s teachings and those of his family lineage.

 

Jess McNally

 
Jess has devoted much of her adult life to practicing and studying Buddhism. After completing  both  Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Earth Systems at Stanford University, she moved to Zen Mountain Monastery, where she trained for over three years. During that time she completed over 40 week-long sesshins (silent retreats) and studied many Buddhist topics. She then decided to pursue Tibetan Buddhism, and was ordained as a monastic by Thrangu Rinpoche in 2015. She met Mingyur Rinpoche shortly afterwards at Tergar Monastery in Bodhgaya, India, and knew immediately he was her main teacher. Under Mingyur Rinpoche’s guidance, she completed two months-long solitary retreats in Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo’s cave in the Himalayas, including a five-month retreat over winter where she saw no one. After completing her solitary retreats, she moved to Madison, Wisconsin to participate in the Tergar community and the Center for Healthy Minds. In 2018, Jess chose to return to lay life and  her homeland in Alberta, Canada. Over the past few years, Jess has continued to study with Mingyur Rinpoche and Tsoknyi Rinpoche, while discovering both the joys and rich opportunities for practice that lay life offers. She serves as a Tergar Facilitator and host for online retreats, and supports a local practice group. Jess currently works as a website designer and meditation coach. In her downtime, she loves to backcountry ski, run, and bike in the mountains with her dog Pema.

 

Further Information:

For further information and enquiries, please contact communityprograms@tergar.org