Saturday Morning Workshops

SATURDAY MORNING WORKSHOPS FOR RECONNECTING WITH THE PRACTICE

AND FOR INSPIRATION

Every three weeks, a complementary Saturday morning session is offered from 9:30 to 12:30. This is a good opportunity for discovering mindfulness practice without commitment to a series, or as a refresher for practitioners to reconnect. You can use this opportunity as a wellness session, or as a source of inspiration and change.
These days include periods of sitting, Q&A and a talk. Mindfulness is healing to us as individuals, and also as families and couples, or as members of a working team.

A 20 dollar contribution is requested. Reservations are necessary as our space is small. An email message is sufficient.

Location: Pointe-Claire. For directions, click HERE.

Winter 2012 Calendar:

28 January
11 February
10 March
31 March
21 April

January 28: SUFFERING IS NOT ENOUGH. Buddha’s smile belies the fact that he often said, “I only teach suffering and the overcoming of suffering.” Buddha’s core teaching about suffering is known as The Four Noble Truths. It is a process of looking at our suffering dispassionately for once, without getting caught up in it, and seeing how we contribute to creating it. But suffering is not enough. The next step is to stop making ourselves suffer, to let go of those attitudes and mental habits that create stress or make us unhappy. The final step is traditionally called the Noble Eightfold Path. Thich Nhat Hanh also calls it “The path of well-being”, and it is a list of ways of living and thinking that bring happiness. Appropriately, these include concentration and mindfulness.
Concentration is an ally of mindfulness; it gives us the ability to stay with and look deeply into the knots inside so we can start the work of undoing them.

During this day we will review basic mindfulness practices, and see how we can apply them to our own life.

February 11: EIGHT STEPS TO HAPPINESS: How mindfulness meditation can help us choose happiness over unhappiness in our attitudes, habits, relationships, and way of life.
Whether we are aware of it or not, we are making small choices all the time, sometimes with every breath. These choices determine the direction we are going, whether we are going in the direction of more happiness and well-being, or in the opposite direction.
The Eight Steps to Happiness is a basic teaching of the this tradition. Mindfulness meditation makes it possible to make them a part of our life. it makes it possible to bring our wishes and aspirations to bear upon every moment so they can become a reality for us.
During this workshop, we will discuss the practical application of the Eight Steps, as well as review some basic mindfulness practices.

To register, please e-mail Joseph Emet