Why Worry? Buddhist Pragmatism in an Impractical World.
with Ven. Gyalten Lekden
Facebook LIVE, Sunday, October 4, 2020
10:30 AM-12:00 PM PDT (US Time)
This course will be presented via Facebook livestream on Tse Chen Ling Center for Buddhist Studies’ Facebook page.
We all have worries, some small, some big, from simple nagging concerns to debilitating panic attacks. The world around us, with what seems an ever-growing amount of uncertainty and tumult, often serves as the primary condition generating and perpetuating our worries, but since worry is an internal, emotional phenomena there needs to be a substantial, internal cause, too.
The teachings of Buddhism help us to recognize our worries and engage with them in a more constructive way, whether that be learning strategies to navigate and ameliorate them, or whether it be recognizing that, sometimes, there can be some benefit to be found in worry, especially when accompanied by compassion and discernment. In this edition of Taste of Buddhism, Ven. Gyalten Lekden will lead us in strategies that can help both to undermine the destructive power of worry and to accept and utilize the constructive power of worry in our daily lives.
About the Presenter:
Ven. Gyalten Lekden was born and raised outside of Boston. He first started studying and practicing Buddhism during his undergraduate studies, and after completing BAs in Theatre and Religious Studies he continued on to complete his Masters of Divinity in Buddhist Ministry at Harvard Divinity School. Ven. Lekden started leading Buddhist communities while an undergrad, and has studied, served, and taught at various Dharma centers since then. In 2012 he joined Sera Je Monastery in southern India, where he continues to study and practice. Ven. Lekden is a registered teacher in the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition, and has given talks and meditation instruction in India and the USA.
Ven. Lekden is also a co-founder of The Union of Teaching and Accomplishment Publishing Group comprised of a few monks living and studying at Sera Je Monastery in south India. The members of the group are studying full-time as part of the geshe curriculum and use their free time to produce Tibetan-language critical editions of are mostly texts that are useful for study but are not easily available, especially not in book format and not in critical editions. The texts they translate are most often aimed at practice, not theory, and help all strive for the union of study and practice, or of teaching and accomplishment. For more on The Union of Teaching & Accomplishment Publishing Group, please visit: http://publishing.simplebuddhistmonk.net/index.php/about-us/
10:30 AM-12:00 PM PDT (US Time)
This course will be presented via Facebook livestream on Tse Chen Ling Center for Buddhist Studies’ Facebook page.
We all have worries, some small, some big, from simple nagging concerns to debilitating panic attacks. The world around us, with what seems an ever-growing amount of uncertainty and tumult, often serves as the primary condition generating and perpetuating our worries, but since worry is an internal, emotional phenomena there needs to be a substantial, internal cause, too.
The teachings of Buddhism help us to recognize our worries and engage with them in a more constructive way, whether that be learning strategies to navigate and ameliorate them, or whether it be recognizing that, sometimes, there can be some benefit to be found in worry, especially when accompanied by compassion and discernment. In this edition of Taste of Buddhism, Ven. Gyalten Lekden will lead us in strategies that can help both to undermine the destructive power of worry and to accept and utilize the constructive power of worry in our daily lives.
About the Presenter:
Ven. Gyalten Lekden was born and raised outside of Boston. He first started studying and practicing Buddhism during his undergraduate studies, and after completing BAs in Theatre and Religious Studies he continued on to complete his Masters of Divinity in Buddhist Ministry at Harvard Divinity School. Ven. Lekden started leading Buddhist communities while an undergrad, and has studied, served, and taught at various Dharma centers since then. In 2012 he joined Sera Je Monastery in southern India, where he continues to study and practice. Ven. Lekden is a registered teacher in the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition, and has given talks and meditation instruction in India and the USA.
Ven. Lekden is also a co-founder of The Union of Teaching and Accomplishment Publishing Group comprised of a few monks living and studying at Sera Je Monastery in south India. The members of the group are studying full-time as part of the geshe curriculum and use their free time to produce Tibetan-language critical editions of are mostly texts that are useful for study but are not easily available, especially not in book format and not in critical editions. The texts they translate are most often aimed at practice, not theory, and help all strive for the union of study and practice, or of teaching and accomplishment. For more on The Union of Teaching & Accomplishment Publishing Group, please visit: http://publishing.simplebuddhistmonk.net/index.php/about-us/
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