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[UPDATED 9/24/19] - ANNOUNCING PIMC'S FALL 2019 SCHEDULE OF CLASSES & RETREATS
Submitted by avi on Wed, 07/31/2019 - 16:53
Guiding Teacher Robert Beatty and PIMC Teachers Council are pleased to present the Fall 2019 schedule. The teachers have been working for months to develop and coordinate their offerings to provide a diversity of subjects.
For more information and to register, please use the following link to get to the Fall 2019 PIMC Catalog:
Fall 2019 Class: Become Fully Alive - The Dharma of Life and Death, with Robert Beatty (8 Wks)
Submitted by avi on Wed, 07/31/2019 - 16:22
Please join PIMC Guiding Teacher Robert Beatty for a very special opportunity to engage deeply with the idea of death as a teacher for living well. The class will consist of meditation sessions, readings, and discussion about opening the heart and engaging life fully.
CLASS DETAILS
DATES: 8 Wednesdays - 9/11, 9/25, 10/2, 10/23, 11/6, 11/20, 12/4, & 12/18
Fall 2019 Class: Cultivating a Boundless Heart: A Deep Dive into Loving Kindness, with Gary Sanders (8 Wks + Opt. Day-Long Retreat)
Submitted by avi on Wed, 07/31/2019 - 15:16
In this time of divisiveness, taking sides, and creating enemies, we all have the potential to find peace and ease within, to recognize our interconnection to all other beings, and to embrace them all with acceptance and friendliness. It is the practice of Metta that enables this to become our reality, to cut through our conditioning and decades of comparison, judgement and resentment.
Fall 2019 Class: Intermediate Mindfulness With Doug Pullin (5 Wks + Half-Day Retreat)
Submitted by avi on Wed, 07/31/2019 - 14:49
This five-week course will take you beyond basic instruction so that your meditation practice can be a more reliable refuge to experience direct insight into the nature of life.
Fall 2019 Class: Basics of Mindfulness (6 Wks)
Submitted by avi on Wed, 07/31/2019 - 14:30
Fall 2019 Class: Skillful Speech & NVC at PIMC (Day-Long Retreat + 10-Week Class)
Submitted by avi on Wed, 07/31/2019 - 14:12
Fall 2019 Class: The Noble Eightfold Path - Putting the Buddha's Path to Happiness Into Practice (8 Wks)
Submitted by avi on Wed, 07/31/2019 - 13:38
The Noble Eightfold Path is the fourth of the Buddha's Four Noble Truths and is described by the Buddha as the way to the cessation of suffering and the blossoming of self-awakening. The Eightfold Path is often said to contain a summary of all the instructions and essential elements of the Buddha’s path to realization.
Buddhist Movie Night at PIMC: "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter . . . and Spring" (Sat., 8/17/19, 6:30pm)
Submitted by avi on Tue, 07/23/2019 - 13:20
Mindfulness Hike, with Vik (Sat. Aug. 24)
Submitted by avi on Tue, 07/23/2019 - 12:33
Vik Anantha, a longtime sangha participant and hiking enthusiast, will be leading an all-day group mindfulness hike on Saturday Aug. 24, 2019.