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November 2018
Foundations of Sustainable Compassion Meditation
Teacher(s): Paul Condon
Foundations of Sustainable Compassion Meditation Day-Long Retreat - Saturday Novenber 17th. Retreat runs from 9:00am to 5:00pm Reatreat led by Paul Condon Assistant Professor of Psychology at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon. To register, call: 530-276-8897 or email: myicievents@gmail.com
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Opening to Awakened Awareness Through Love and Compassion
Teacher(s): Lama John Makransky
Weekend Retreat with Lama John Makransky Join the developer of Innate Compassion-Wisdom Training (ICT), John Makransky, in deepening the experience of our inborn awakened capacity. In this practice, we become receptive to the primal openness, wisdom, deep peace and compassion of our buddha nature by participating in a field of unconditional care for self and others. Yet parts of us, often unconsciously, prevent us from becoming more fully receptive to such qualities of awakening. And this can impede even long-time…
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Opening to Awakened Awareness through Unconditional Love and Compassion
Teacher(s): Lama John Makransky
Join the developer of Innate Compassion-Wisdom Training (ICT), Lama John Makransky, in deepening the experience of our innate awakened capacity. In this practice, we become receptive to the unconditioned openness, compassion, wisdom, and peace of our buddha nature by participating in a field of unconditional love for self and others. Parts of us, often unconsciously, prevent us from becoming more fully receptive to the qualities of awakening. This can impede even long-time practitioners from much fuller access to awakened awareness.…
READ MOREBecoming Our Compassionate Self – Integrating Parts of Ourselves into the Process of Spiritual Awakening
Teacher(s): Lama John Makransky, Richard Schwartz, Ph.D, Lama Willa Miller, Ph.D (Discussant), Ed Yeats, Ph.D (Discussant)
A Conversation Between Internal Family Systems and Tibetan Buddhism Have you noticed that, even after years of dedicated and sincere spiritual practice, whole areas of our personalities and our lives can remain untouched by the compassion and wisdom described in spiritual teachings? There is a paradigm shift taking place in both psychology and spiritual practice. It hinges on recognizing that we have not just one personality, but many inner sub-personalities, or parts, whose burdens obscure our access to the qualities…
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Sustainable Compassion: Public Talk and Workshop
Teacher(s): Lama John Makransky
Public Talk: Friday, April 26, 5:00 – 6:30 pm, at Textor Hall 101, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY 14850 Workshop: Saturday, April 27, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm, at Muller Chapel, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY 14850 Sustainable Compassion Training (SCT) adapts a pattern of contemplative practice seen across faith traditions into a secular and inter-religious form aligned with areas of social psychology and neuroscience. SCT helps individuals cultivate a more inclusive and replenishing power of care and compassion for themselves and…
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Accessing Innate Love, Compassion, Wisdom
Teacher(s): Lama John Makransky
Half-Day Workshop Accessing Innate Love, Compassion, & Wisdom Guiding Teacher: John Makransky, Ph.D. In this workshop, we will connect directly to innate capacities of love and wisdom in the deep nature of our minds, to cut through our reductive labels of self and others by sensing them in their deep dignity and potential, in their buddha nature. On that basis, we will cultivate sustainable, responsive compassion and wisdom, which can heal and liberate inner causes of suffering without devolving into…
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Realizing Awakened Awareness through Unconditional Love and Compassion
Teacher(s): Lama John Makransky, Julie Forsythe, Bob Morrison
jlJoin the developer of Innate Compassion-Wisdom Training (ICT), John Makransky, and his co-teachers Bob Morrison and Julie Forsythe, in deepening the experience of our inborn awakened capacity. In this practice, we become receptive to the unconditioned openness, compassion, wisdom, and peace of our buddha nature by participating in a field of unconditional love for self and others. Yet parts of us, often unconsciously, prevent us from becoming more fully receptive to such qualities of awakening. And this can impede even…
READ MOREChokyi Nyima Rinpoche Annual Retreat
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The Buddha teaches that we each possess, as our ultimate nature, a pure, all-encompassing primordial wisdom far more profound than we can possibly imagine. Through guidance in the practice of Dzogchen meditation, we can come to recognize the uncomplicated nature of our own mind and embody the innate compassionate and perfectly enlightened nature that is ours. Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche will introduce the participants at the retreat to this natural state. He will give simple but powerful guidance that allows students…
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October 2019
Realizing Awakened Awareness through Unconditional Love and Compassion
Teacher(s): Lama John Makransky
Guiding Teacher: Lama John Makransky, Ph.D. Join the developer of Innate Compassion-Wisdom Training (ICT), John Makransky in deepening the experience of our inborn awakened capacity. In this practice, we become receptive to the unconditioned openness, compassion, wisdom, and peace of our buddha nature by participating in a field of unconditional love for self and others. Yet parts of us, often unconsciously, prevent us from becoming more fully receptive to such qualities of awakening. And this can impede even long-time practitioners from…
READ MORECultivating Our Innate Compassion
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This daylong retreat will be led by Foundation for Active Compassion meditation teachers Katherine Bonus and Diana Grove. During the retreat, we will explore practices designed to cultivate and deepen our connection with "a power of unconditional care from within, that can be deeply healing and sustaining." These practices, developed by Lama John Makransky, can help us learn to relax into the space of natural kindness and compassion that is always available in whatever circumstances life presents. For more information…
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