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From Captivity to Freedom
Title:
From Captivity to Freedom
When:
August 30, 2012 - September 03, 2012 
Category:
Upcoming Events

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Category: Course
Level: All Levels
Level of silence: Partial


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Course Overview

From Captivity to Freedom: How the Four Noble Truths Encompass the Entire Range of Buddhist Thought and Practice

  • Learn how to free your mind
  • Train to diagnose life's suffering
  • Learn how to overcome them

Shakyamuni Buddha is sometimes referred to the Great Physician. Just as a skilful physician diagnoses an illness, identifies its causes, knows if it can be cured, and prescribes the course of treatment that can lead to a cure, in a similar manner Buddha shows through his teachings of the Four Noble Truths how the various ills we experience in life—dissatisfaction, fear and all other forms of unhappiness and suffering—can be diagnosed and overcome. He explains that although outer conditions certainly affect how we experience our life, the deep causes for both our recurring dissatisfaction and our eventual release from this imprisonment are to be found within our own mind.

Led by two esteemed Western teachers in the FPMT Bay, Jon Landaw and Emily Hsu are coming together for the second time after the resounding success of last year's Emptiness program.

 

Teacher Bio

landawJon Landaw was born in New Jersey in 1944. From 1972 to 1977 Jon worked as an English editor for the Translation Bureau of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India, producing numerous texts under the guidance of Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey. As a student of Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche since 1973, Jon has edited numerous works for Wisdom Publications, including Wisdom Energy and Introduction to Tantra. He is also the author of Prince Siddhartha, a biography of Buddha for children, Images of Enlightenment and Buddhism for Dummies. As an instructor of Buddhist meditation, he has taught in numerous Dharma centers throughout the United States, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere. He currently lives in Capitola, California with his wife and three children, and leads the Discovering Buddhism courses at Land of Medicine Buddha.
 


 

EmilyhsuEmily Hsu was raised in Omaha, Nebraska, but was a resident of San Francisco for many years before heading to Nepal in 1996. While there, she attended the November Course at Kopan which was her jumping point into the Dharma. She completed FPMT's 7-year Master's Program at Instituto Lama Tsong Khapa in Italy in 2004 followed by a 9-month retreat to integrate the material. Lama Zopa Rinpoche observed that it came out well for Emily to teach "at all the Bay Area centers."

During her studies at Instituto Lama Tsong Khapa, Emily also worked on creating a study manual on the fourth chapter of the Ornament for Clear Realizations (Abhisamayalamkara), one of the more difficult subjects of the FPMT Basic Program. The 126-page manuscript that resulted from this project sets the Ornament teachings in perspective, introduces the subject of the fourth chapter – "the application in the complete aspects" – and presents each of the eleven topics that illustrate it together with their definitions, related root text, and commentary supported by various supplementary charts, quizzes, homework, and guidelines on how to meditate on these topics.

Emily teaches the FPMT Basic Program curriculum at GGBC, San Jose, and for Tse Chen Ling, in San Francisco. As a graduate of the Master's Program, she is authorized to teach courses which are normally taught by geshes.

 

Fees

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From Captivity to Freedom

August 30-September 3

 

 

Nights:

4

 

 

 

Fees (inclusive of accommodation, meals, retreat fees)

Non-Member

Member

10% discount

Camping

$360.55

$324.85

Main Dormitory

$444.55

$400.45

Semi-Private Dormitory

$507.55

$457.15

 

 

Private Room

$717.55

$646.15

Private Room SHARE OPTION

$423.55

$381.55

Cabin

$801.55

$721.75

Cabin SHARE OPTION

$444.55

$400.45

 

In order to accommodate any waiting lists we may have and to better organize our retreat logistics, we ask that you register at least 48 hours prior to the start of the retreat. Registrations received within this 48 hour time period will incur a $15 late fee.

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Financial Aid is Available!

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Schedule

 Basic schedule subject to change

 

August 30th

 

3:00pm-5:00pm

Registration

5:15pm-5:45pm

Working meditation trianing

6:00pm-6:30pm

Dinner

7:00pm

Orientation session (in the gompa)

7:30pm-8:30pm

Opening session

 

 

Aug. 31-Sept. 2

 

7:00am-8:00am

first session

8:00am-8:30am

Breakfast

9:00am-12:00pm

Second session

12:00pm-12:40pm

Lunch

12:40pm-2:30pm

Break

2:30pm-3:30pm

Third session

3:30pm-4:00pm

Break

4:00pm-6:00pm

Fourth session

6:00pm-6:30pm

Dinner

6:30pm-7:30pm

Break

7:30pm- 9:00pm

Evening Session

 

 

September 3rd

7:00am-8:00am

First session

8:00am-8:30am

Breakfast

8:30am-9:30am

pack up from accomodations

9:30am-12:00pm

Final session

12:00pm-12:40pm

Lunch

12:40pm-1:30pm

Last group working meditation clean up

2:00pm

Retreat Ends