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Course OverviewFrom Captivity to Freedom: How the Four Noble Truths Encompass the Entire Range of Buddhist Thought and Practice
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
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.
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Jon Landaw
Emily Hsu