About the Foundation Programme: The next step…
Why not take the next step to deepen your meditation practice?
Foundation Programme (FP) is an ongoing, weekly course on Buddhism and meditation. The course is suitable for anyone with interest in deepening their understanding of Buddhist meditation and wisdom.
The Programme consists of a dynamic combination of teachings, meditation and discussion, all of which enable us to go deeper into the layers of meaning within each book that we study. So all of this helps us to make real progress along our spiritual path. Each class consists of preliminary prayers, guided meditation and reading from the book with commentary and discussion.
Benefits of the Foundation Programme
- Increased personal insight, wisdom and experience of Dharma (Buddha’s teachings)
- Studying and meditating more effectively following a specially-designed programme and qualified meditation teacher
- An opportunity to discuss and ask questions
- Help, support and friendship from like-minded people
- Gain the ability to integrate Buddha’s instructions into busy modern life.
How do I start?
In September we will start The New Heart of Wisdom
When you join the Foundation Programme, you commit to studying one section of the book. This can take differing lengths of time, depending on which book is being studied. The current section – will take approximately 12 months to complete.
What to expect
In each class there are guided meditations, teachings on the book, and discussion in pairs. Every fifth or sixth class is a group discussion, which enables students to ask questions and clarify the meaning of the text.
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What are we studying?
New Heart of Wisdom by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche
Many people are very intelligent in accomplishing worldly attainments. This intelligence is not wisdom because worldly attainments such as a high position, reputation, wealth and success in business are deceptive. If we die tomorrow, they will disappear tomorrow, and nothing will be left for our future. Wisdom, however, will never deceive us. It is our inner Spiritual Guide, who leads us to the correct path. It is the divine eye through which we can see what we should know, what we should abandon, what we should practise and what we should attain.
This special presentation of Buddha’s teachings by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, offers truly liberating insights and advice for the contemporary reader.
It reveals the profound meaning of the very heart of Buddha’s teachings – the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras.
The text shows how all our problems and suffering come from our ignorance of the ultimate nature of things, and how we can abandon this ignorance and come to enjoy pure, lasting happiness by developing a special wisdom associated with compassion for all living beings.