Equanimity
Program Description:
We do notice our almost rapid-fire likes and dislikes – our feelings of attachment and aversion towards people, places and things, running 24/7. Buddhist teachings lead us to train our minds to create space to question and change our reactions, avoid overwhelm, and to make sense of the world.
In Buddhism, equanimity is a state of mental equipoise and balance, characterized by non-reactivity and even-mindedness amidst life's constant ups and downs. It is not a passive state but a quality that is cultivated through mindfulness, meditation, and ethical conduct. It involves not being overwhelmed by emotional reactions to external events or internal states, but also to set up preconditions to change the way we experience the world.
Geshe Sherab, with his learning and experience, will offer advice and methods to achieve equanimity in a two-part series offered on Zoom.
We do notice our almost rapid-fire likes and dislikes – our feelings of attachment and aversion towards people, places and things, running 24/7. Buddhist teachings lead us to train our minds to create space to question and change our reactions, avoid overwhelm, and to make sense of the world.
In Buddhism, equanimity is a state of mental equipoise and balance, characterized by non-reactivity and even-mindedness amidst life's constant ups and downs. It is not a passive state but a quality that is cultivated through mindfulness, meditation, and ethical conduct. It involves not being overwhelmed by emotional reactions to external events or internal states, but also to set up preconditions to change the way we experience the world.
Geshe Sherab, with his learning and experience, will offer advice and methods to achieve equanimity in a two-part series offered on Zoom.
About Geshe Thubten Sherab:
Geshe Sherab was born in Manang/Nepal in 1967. He attended Kopan monastery at age nine and was ordained by Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche. After 10 years of study in Kopan, he went to Sera Je Monastery for further studies in 1987 and graduated as Geshe at the end of 1999. He then joined Gyume Tantric College for a year, and taught young monks at Kopan for a year. In 2001, he was sent by Lama Zopa Rinpoche to New Mexico to serve and help at the International Office of FPMT and teach at TNL in Santa Fe and Ksiti Garba Center in Taos as resident teacher. He also served as a Board member of FPMT for two years during that period. By the end of 2003 in December he returned to Nepal to do his own practices. In 2006 he was appointed as Head Master of Kopan Monastery and served for four years. He served as acting Abbot for a year in 2011 when the late Guru Khensur Rinpoche Lama Lhundup became ill.
He has been teaching at Kopan during meditation courses as well as traveling and teaching around the world, in the US, Canada, many parts of Europe, Asia, Mexico, Guatemala, and Australia.
Geshe Sherab was born in Manang/Nepal in 1967. He attended Kopan monastery at age nine and was ordained by Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche. After 10 years of study in Kopan, he went to Sera Je Monastery for further studies in 1987 and graduated as Geshe at the end of 1999. He then joined Gyume Tantric College for a year, and taught young monks at Kopan for a year. In 2001, he was sent by Lama Zopa Rinpoche to New Mexico to serve and help at the International Office of FPMT and teach at TNL in Santa Fe and Ksiti Garba Center in Taos as resident teacher. He also served as a Board member of FPMT for two years during that period. By the end of 2003 in December he returned to Nepal to do his own practices. In 2006 he was appointed as Head Master of Kopan Monastery and served for four years. He served as acting Abbot for a year in 2011 when the late Guru Khensur Rinpoche Lama Lhundup became ill.
He has been teaching at Kopan during meditation courses as well as traveling and teaching around the world, in the US, Canada, many parts of Europe, Asia, Mexico, Guatemala, and Australia.
Registration:
Advanced registration is required.
We offer all Dharma teachings and center events on a “dana” basis. This means we’re grateful for your generosity but there is no required cost to attend and no one is turned away for lack of funds.
Suggested donation amounts are provided, and we welcome you to offer what you can to help us sustain our programming and make the dharma and events like this possible. And of course, ordained sangha (ordained nuns and monks) are always welcome free of charge.
If you're not donating at this time but would like to attend, please email [email protected].
Advanced registration is required.
We offer all Dharma teachings and center events on a “dana” basis. This means we’re grateful for your generosity but there is no required cost to attend and no one is turned away for lack of funds.
Suggested donation amounts are provided, and we welcome you to offer what you can to help us sustain our programming and make the dharma and events like this possible. And of course, ordained sangha (ordained nuns and monks) are always welcome free of charge.
If you're not donating at this time but would like to attend, please email [email protected].