What's So Bad About Complaining?with Don Handrick
Friday, June 3, 2016 7:00pm – 9:00pm Griping about the things that bother us is a habit that practically everyone has indulged in to some extent, though perhaps it seems even more rampant nowadays, especially with the internet providing so many forums for us to vent our complaints. But does anything truly positive ever come from our complaining? In this talk we will discuss the truth about complaining and explore how to address the things that we don’t like in the most positive way for both ourselves and others.
Don will give another talk on Thursday, May 26: Using Work as a Spiritual Path
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Last year, Don Handrick led the November Course, a month-long teaching and meditation retreat on the lam-rim held at Kopan Monastery in Nepal and attended by over 225 people from around the world.
In this slide show, Don will share his experiences during the course, which also included a visit from Lama Zopa Rinpoche for two weeks of the course and some pilgrimage to sacred sites in the Kathmandu Valley. |
Don Handrick is the resident teacher at Thubten Norbu Ling Buddhist Center in Santa Fe, NM, and he teaches for the FPMT at the Ksitigarbha Tibetan Buddhist Center in Taos, NM. Don also serves as a Buddhist teacher for Liberation Prison Project, which includes teaching Buddhism at a local prison in New Mexico. Don's study and practice of Buddhism began in 1993 when he read The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche. Over the next two years he practiced with Rigpa, Sogyal Rinpoche's organization, until he began attending classes with Venerable Robina Courtin at Tse Chen Ling, the FPMT center in San Francisco.
At the beginning of 1998, Don left the Bay Area to attend the FPMT's Masters Program of Buddhist Studies in Sutra and Tantra, a full-time seven-year residential study program in Tuscany, Italy, taught by the incomparable scholar and kind Spiritual Friend, Geshe Jampa Gyatso. By 2004, he successfully completed all five subjects of the program and received an FPMT final certificate with high honors. Soon after, Don moved to Santa Fe and served as the Spiritual Program Coordinator for Thubten Norbu Ling, and in 2006 he was appointed Resident Teacher.
At the beginning of 1998, Don left the Bay Area to attend the FPMT's Masters Program of Buddhist Studies in Sutra and Tantra, a full-time seven-year residential study program in Tuscany, Italy, taught by the incomparable scholar and kind Spiritual Friend, Geshe Jampa Gyatso. By 2004, he successfully completed all five subjects of the program and received an FPMT final certificate with high honors. Soon after, Don moved to Santa Fe and served as the Spiritual Program Coordinator for Thubten Norbu Ling, and in 2006 he was appointed Resident Teacher.
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