Practicing Now With Original Buddhism
Teacher: Sensei Beth Jacobs
Dates: October 12, 19 & 26, 2023
Time: 5:30 - 7:00 pm Pacific Time; 7:30 - 9:00 pm Central Time
Cost: $150 PayPal Check
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In this three-evening series, based on Sensei Jacobs book “The Original Buddhist Psychology,” we will revisit some teachings of original Buddhism and consider their implications for one’s personal path. The focus of the series is on practice with perception processes, causation, feelings, and karma. We will consider analyses of perception and consciousness phenomena from different scales of observable experience, in and out of formal meditation. Early Sutras and some charting of our own experiences will provide different facets of observation. Our study will be examined in light of its natural help in relinquishment, and in psychological and consciousness development. Although our study is from original Buddhism, the focus is held through the statement of Eihei Dogen that carefully studying the self frees the self.
Sensei Beth Jacobs, PhD, is a writer, clinical psychologist and transmitted lay teacher in the Soto Zen Tradition. She is the author of Writing for Emotional Balance, Paper Sky, The Original Buddhist Psychology, A Buddhist Journal, and Long Shadows of Practice: Poems. She facilitates expressive writing groups, and mindfulness writing workshops. She has studied the Abhidharma under Roshi Diane Martin and Bhikkhu Bodhi, and has brought Abhidharma teachings to Cloud Water Zendo, Waysmeet Sangha, the Mid-American Buddhist Association Center in collaboration with the University of Sri Lanka, and her home sangha, Udumbara Sangha.
