Sangha of Auspicious Companions

Here are two wonderful upcoming opportunities to study with Pema:

TOUCHING THE PRESENT: ONLINE RETREAT

Exploring the Nature of Self

Weekend teaching from Omega Institute.

Pema’s upcoming retreat at the Omega Institute is sold out, but you can still participate in the retreat from wherever you are by joining us live online the weekend of May 29-31.

“Touching the Present” explores the beliefs and assumptions we make about ourselves, and the world around us, and how they determine whether we experience happiness or sorrow, ease or distress in any given moment.

Watch in real time or at any time that is convenient for you through July 30. Play back parts you liked or sessions you may have missed. Omega is offering $20 off the regular price of $79. This fee goes toward offsetting Omega’s technological and staffing expenses associated with the live streaming.

Information about the program and to register – here

To take advantage of the $20 discount, use code PEMAPCF20 when you register.

With questions, please contact – onlinelearning.

MAKING FRIENDS WITH YOURSELF

Exploring Self, Selflessness, And The Roots Of Attachment

Online from Pema’s home monastery, Gampo Abbey

Six weeks beginning June 9, 2015

Every winter Pema Chödrön leads a retreat for the thirty residents of Gampo Abbey, her home in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. This unique online course is the first time the teaching from one of these retreats has been made available to the general public.

Join Pema in this intimate setting as she explores, in her usual down-to-earth and practical way, the Buddhist teachings on the five elements (skandhas) and the eight kinds of consciousness that make up our experience of the self, as well as on the twelve nidanas (links in the chain of causation), which reveal how we get hooked by our negative habitual patterns. These teachings get to the heart of how our sense of self develops and functions. Pema shows how we can use them to transcend the negative patterns and attachments that are at the root of our suffering. Having seen through the self, we can then proceed to live with limitless joy, wisdom, and compassion toward ourselves and all beings.

Save $30 off the full price when you sign up before June 1.

For more information and to register – here

Margie Rodgers

Vice President

Pema Chödrön Foundation