Many of us experience one or another form of struggle, turmoil, or tragedy in life, and these are often what bring us to spirituality. Or, we recognize a message that resonates and inspires us. This is how our deepest nature of wisdom and compassion shines through, in longing for healing and freedom and bringing us along our paths.

The Buddha’s teachings of the Four Noble Truths encourage us to accept our suffering with love. We can learn to understand and release the causes of suffering; entangled, destructive emotions (kleshas), and actions based upon them that play out across lives and become systematized in societies (karma). We can include everything in a transformative path of living true to form, and coming home together to natural freedom.

This course on the Four Noble Truths will describe this in more depth, and include topics like:

-What is our Buddha Nature? How are we naturally wise, loving, and free?

-How to have a healthy relationship with the suffering we experience in life

-An introduction to Buddhist psychology

-What is karma? How does it work? What about collective, and national karma too?

-The long term view of Buddhism, including how to contextualize the crises of the times we’re living in

-What is right livelihood? How do we incorporate our work into our paths?

-Can we all someday be free?