Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel will be teaching this coming Wednesday at Rigpas center in New York City. The topic: Sacred World. Her talk will focus on how the often exotic and magical imagery of Vajrayana Buddhism expresses a wisdom that we can integrate into our practice. More about the event: Vajrayana Buddhism introduces us to a sacred world through the rich and magical imagery of deities and mandalas. But until we understand the wisdom behind this imagery it will have no personal meaning for us. The Vajrayana challenges us to question: “How do we understand the deity beyond conceptual fabrication? What is the nature of the deity? And how do we genuinely cultivate “pure appearance” when the world around us seems so imperfect?” Such questions take us deeper into the practice of sacred world where we learn to value and utilize all of our experience to free the mind, and bring us to a very different way of seeing things. https://facebook/events/268472373327446/
Posted on: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 15:28:39 +0000