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Working with Our Enemies: Finding Freedom from Hostility and Fear
Dare to join Tibetan Buddhism scholar Robert Thurman and acclaimed lovingkindness meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg for their return-by-popular-demand engagement at the Cathedral. Two of America’s most prominent Buddhist teachers, they tackle the mighty spiritual challenge of enemies in this combination lecture and workshop offering. Enemies—habitual, painful mind-states and people toward whom we steadily feel antipathy or fear—consume tremendous energy that we can liberate for powerful, healing change. These pioneers in bringing Buddhist practices to the West guide us to explore our inner and outer enemies, and the stuck mode of “us” and “them” that constricts our lives. Through lecture, dialogue, and meditation practice, they show us the way toward the potential boundlessness of lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity—the four sublime states of mind known as the Brahma Viharas. You are welcome to register for either event separately, or in combination. Please register early as the workshop will likely fill to capacity. An interfaith offering of the Cathedral College, this program is co-sponsored with the Insight Meditation Community of Washington. For more information about imcw, visit www.imcw.org. Sharon Salzberg is co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Mass. She has practiced Buddhist meditation since 1971 and taught worldwide since 1974. She is an ims guiding teacher and author of The Force of Kindness, Faith, and Lovingkindness. Robert Thurman holds the Jey Tsong Khapa Chair in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University. He has studied Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism for almost thirty years as a personal student of the Dalai Lama, written numerous scholarly and popular books, and lectured widely all over the world.
All course registration fees include the cost of required materials. Other related titles are available in the Cathedral Museum Store in the crypt level of the Cathedral or by calling (800) 319-7073. Give the Gift of Service
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