Teachings

  • All teachings are located at CTS Dharma Center, 12 Parkwood Avenue
  • The Dharma Center will be open 30 minutes before each teaching
  • Try to make an effort to arrive at least 5 minutes before the teaching begins
  • Please leave your shoes on the front porch in the racks provided before entering
  • If you cannot stay until the teaching is over, we ask that you do not attend that class
  • All classes are open to the general public, unless otherwise indicated
  • If you have any questions, please contact a board member or senior student
  • Please check the Calendar page for class cancellations

Sunday

7:00 -8:30am - Members Only

Meditation & Practices. SHAMATA Meditation & VAJRASATTVA purification practice for advanced students.

9:30 - 10:30am

Introduction to Meditation. Instruction on meditation w/20 minutes of meditation practice ending with questions and answers.

Monday

6:00 - 7:00pm

Lam-Rim Teachings. The stages of the path to enlightenment. Lam-Rim teachings give one a good foundation for meditation practice and direct access to study Buddha's entire teachings in great depth. (Basic and complete introduction to Buddhism). For beginner students.

Tuesday

7:00 - 8:30pm - Members Only

SIX PARAMITAS. The most important Mahayana practice for the maximum expansion of Love, Compassion and altruistic intention that leads to full enlightenment which benefits all sentient beings. FOR ADVANCED MEMBERS who have completed at least 2 years Lam-Rim or Foundational Teachings.

Wednesday

3:00 - 4:00pm - Members Only

MEDITATION. The key for expanding and increasing the mind's capacity to know without need for an intellectual and conceptual description about what one attempts to know. In this class, we learn very basic mind calming techniques up to highly complex methods that lead to awareness of non-duality between relative and ultimate reality. FOR INTERMEDIATE MEMBERS.

7:00 - 8:00pm

SHAMATA MEDITATION PRACTICE. Shamata, or calm abiding, is "a form of meditation which creates a stable mind capable of focusing single-pointedly on emptiness or any other phenomenon" (from Gen Lamrimpa's book "Calming the Mind"). This group practice begins with chanting, followed by two 20 minute sessions of shamata meditation with a five minute silent break between sessions, and ends with closing dedication.

Thursday

7:00 - 8:30pm

FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS. The cream of Buddha's message and the ground or foundation of Buddhism. For second year and higher students.