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BUD 500

Analytical Meditation I

Faculty: Jirka Hladiš

Course Description:
This course is a systematic training in the meditation of special insight following the approach of the Abhidharma tradition. Students learn the skills to gain certainty in the view of selflessness through the practice of the Four Applications of Mindfulness, cultivating inferential wisdom and bringing it to personal experience.

Additional Course Description:
Through a series of analytical meditations, students will train in the sequential entry into the view of identitylessness - dependent origination with the support of the scriptural sutras of the foundational vehicle and mahayana, and following the matrix of the four noble truths:

  1. Suffering to be known
  2. Origin to be relinquished
  3. Cessation to be realized
  4. Path to be relied on

PREREQUISITE:

Open to all, no prerequisites!

REQUIRED TEXTS:

  • None

DATES & TIMES:

Mondays September 9 - December 16, 3:30 - 5:00 pm US Pacific Time

COST:

$200

Nitartha’s Payment Plan and Financial Assistance (PPFA) program is funded by fellow students to support those who would not be able to attend the Institute’s courses without this assistance. To request aid, please fill out the PPFA application before you register for the course.

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Buddhist teacher, Jirka Hladiš teaching at Nitartha Institute.

Jirka Hladiš

Jirka Hladiš has studied under the guidance of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche since 1997. He joined Nitartha Institute in 2002 and was authorized as a faculty member in 2007. Jirka’s interest is in approaching study, analytical meditation and debate as a unified tool for spiritual transformation. Jirka holds graduate degrees both in engineering from Prague Technical University and in Buddhist studies from Naropa University.

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