Mindfulness, Compassionate Action, and the Wisdom of Emptiness
with Jon Aaron
6 Week Course on Thursdays, April 18th – May 23rd 2019 | 10:00am – 12:00pm
How does meditation practice inform our engagement with the world today?
As we walk the path between the absolute and ultimate reality do we allow appropriate response to arise when confronted with the challenges we face today?
The ideal of the Bodhisattava—implicit in the early Buddhist teachings and explicit in the later teachings—is compassion in action. Compassionate action arises in the space of emptiness when we let go of the clinging to self.
This class will explore the Bodhisattva ideal – its place in the early teachings and some of the primary texts of later teachings. Most important however we will explore how compassionate action arises in us, when is it blocked, and how we bring our practice and wisdom into the world. This course is open to all and appropriate to all levels of experience.
Registration
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Teacher(s)
Jon Aaron
Jon Aaron is a Dharma and mindfulness teacher based in New York and Chicago. Since 2006, he has taught at the New York Insight Meditation Center, offering Dharma and MBSR classes. He regularly leads retreats around the U.S. He is primarily grounded in the Theravāda tradition, alongside non-dual and Mahayana approaches. His teaching emphasizes integrating Dharma and mindfulness into daily life to foster clarity in addressing personal and social challenges. His teachers include Matthew Flickstein and, more recently, Kittisaro and Thanissara through their Dharmapala program. Jon also studied contemplative care at the Zen Center for Contemplative Care and completed the Integrated Study and Practice program at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. He is a certified MBSR teacher and teacher trainer and a Somatic Experience Practitioner®. In response to the pandemic, he and his partner, Upayadhi, launched the Space2Meditate community, offering daily meditation since March 2020. Additionally, he co-hosts the podcast Diggin’ the Dharma with scholar Doug Smith, now in its third season. JonAaron.net