Applied Meditation Technology: Blueprints for Enlightenment
Jewel Heart Instructors
How can we best navigate the realities of life and death? Is it possible to attain lasting happiness? These sessions are a meditative exploration of the human condition from a Buddhist background. Building on the Meditation Technology programs, we will use different approaches to gain deeper insight into our lives, aiming at gaining freedom from all suffering. The program includes instruction, guided meditation, individual meditation and discussion sessions.
Precious Human Life – Rare and Hard to Get
Taking our life for granted we waste precious time. This workshop focuses on appreciating the opportunities of a spiritual life and making life meaningful.
Impermanence – Death and Dying
Wonderful is life, short it’s nature – (Je Tsongkhapa, 3 Principles). Why dwell on the end of life? We don’t know what’s on the other side and if we can prepare now is the time. By realizing the fragility and beauty of our life we take more care to appreciate it and make the time we have left count.
Karma – Opportunities and Challenges
What causes the events in our lives to happen? Is it chance or the actions of a higher power – or just cause and effect? This workshop explores the reality of actions and their consequences through guided meditations, individual meditation and discussion.
The Truth of Suffering
While our life has many moments of happiness, there are inevitable difficulties like sickness, aging and death, and constant underlying symptoms of unease, dissatisfaction, uncertainty and fear. This workshop will discuss unrealistic expectations and offer a reality check on the human condition.
The Cause of Suffering
There are many obvious reasons for the various kinds of human misery, but underlying all of them are our own individual and collective actions, perceptions and emotional reactions.
Exploring these leads to a re-appraisal of our choices and a path to lasting happiness.
The 12 Links of Dependent Origination
Investigating the causes for all suffering, the Buddha discovered a deep-seated pattern tracing back to a fundamental misconception of our own existence, which then spawns many secondary afflicted states of mind and thereby powers a chain reaction of events that constantly recreates situations of pain and discomfort. Understanding this is the key to disengage from the self-perpetuating cycle of misery.
The Cessation of Suffering and the Path Leading to It
By uprooting fundamental misconceptions about reality, all misguided actions and consequently all causes of misery will cease and lasting happiness can be attained. This workshop will focus on practical methods to get closer to this goal.