Into the Void: The Buddha’s Teachings on Emptiness

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Into the Void: The Buddha’s Teachings on Emptiness

with Jon Aaron

9 Week Course on Thursdays: January 17th, 31st, February 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th, March 7th, 14th, 21st, 2019 | 10:00am – 12:00pm
 

 
The teachings on Emptiness (Sunyata) can come across as some great mystical experience or as a “thing” to be obtained. While it may seem confusing at first, these teachings have the potential to open us to the experience and embodied wisdom of Anatta (not-self). There are many books on the topic (some of which will be used in this class) and you have likely heard the term used often in talks. This class will be an opportunity to explore how, as we start to live from the place of Emptiness, true freedom is experienced.

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Teacher(s)

Jon Aaron

Jon has been a teacher at NYI since 2006.  His principal dharma teachers have been Matthew Flickstein of The Forest Way and Kittisaro and Thanissara of The Sacred Mountain Sangha. He is a Certified Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Teacher and Teacher Trainer and has taught over 100 cycles of the seminal curriculum.  He leads retreats in the US and in Europe.  He is the co-guiding teacher of the Makom Meditation Havurah program at the Jewish Community Center.  He is a certified Somatic Experience Practitioner® and an Accredited teacher of Mindfulness for Heath from Breathworks in the UK.  Jon is a co-founder of the MBSR Teachers Collaborative of Greater New York, and a founding member of the Global Mindfulness Collaborative.  Recently with his partner Upayadhi, he established  Space2Meditate.com, an online community for meditators which started in the context of the pandemic and has been thriving ever since.  JonAaron.net

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