WHEEL OF BECOMING - 6 week course in Dependent Origination

w/ M.C. Owens

May 17 - June 21, 2022

Tuesdays, 9:00am - 10:15am PACIFIC

Tuition: $150

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DESCRIPTION:

Pratītyasamutpāda ('Dependent Origination') is a Buddhist term for the principle that all phenomena arise and exist only in dependence upon other phenomena and, therefore, have no inherent self-nature. To understand this fundamental concept, this six-week course uses the traditional 12-Link 'Chain of Causation' structure to demonstrate the ‘self’-perpetuating, cyclical nature of existence.

Mula Sutta ('The Roots')

Anguttara Nikaya #69(9)

Sutra Recitation by M.C. Owens 5-1-2022

THE HEART SUTRA

An 8-week in depth study with M.C. Owens

New Class Starting April 23rd, 2022

Saturdays: 9am - 10:15am (PDT)

April 23rd - June 11th, 2022

Tuition: $200

Class will live on Zoom with recordings of each class

available for participants afterwards.

The Heart Sutra is by far the most popular sutra in the Buddhist world today, chanted aloud by Buddhists daily, regardless of sectarian affiliation. In addition to being the most ubiquitous sutra, it is also one of the smallest - consisting of a mere 25 lines of Sanskrit, or 260 characters in the standard Chinese version.

This course is an in-depth, word-by-word study of the Heart Sutra focused on understanding its underlying teaching of ‘Emptiness’, the philosophical foundation of Mahayana Buddhism. The course will also present the contested origins of the sutra and its various interpretations by different schools of Buddhism.

Sāmaññaphala Sutta ('Fruits of the Homeless Life')

Dīgha Nikāya #2

Sutra Recitation by M.C. Owens 3-31-2022

Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta ('Turning the Dharma Wheel')

Sutra recitation and discussion by M.C. Owens

Recorded March 1, 2022

From the Connected Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Samyutta Nikaya by Bhikkhu Bodhi

Sutta 45.11

TURNING THE DHARMA WHEEL w/ MC Owens

Tuesdays, March 8th - May 10th

9am - 10:15am (PT)

Tuition: $220

Classes are live on zoom, with recordings of each class available to participants.

Course Description:

A traditional way of learning Buddhism is called Anguttara, ‘adding one’ – wherein the teachings of the Buddha are presented numerically in increasing order, such as the Three Poisons, the Four Noble Truths, and the Five Aggregations. This 10-week course uses a similar method of interlocking systems to explore fundamental Buddhist concepts and their interrelation. The ideas presented in each week’s session grow in complexity and systematically build on previous session topics, thus ‘turning the wheel of Truth,’ or Dharma.

Bhayabherava Sutta ('Fear & Dread')

Majjhima Nikaya #4 (The Middle-length Discourses)

Read by M.C Owens 1-24-2022

The Noble Eightfold Path - Part Eight

Right Concentration - Sammā-samādhi

Sutra recitation and discussion by M.C. Owens

The Noble Eightfold Path - Part Seven

Right Mindfulness - Sammā-sati

Sutra discussion by M.C. Owens

The Noble Eightfold Path - Part Six

Right Effort - Sammā-vāyāma

Brahmana Sutta ('To Unnabha, the Brahmin)SN 51.15

Sutra discussion by M.C. Owens