Study Programs
Foundation Program
For those who wish to delve more deeply into the teachings, we offer the Foundation Program (FP) on Sunday Evenings. On the FP, we engage in the systematic study of key Buddhist texts in order to gain a deep and lasting understanding and experience of the spiritual path, as well as an authentic confidence as a meditator and practitioner.
The Foundation Program also enables us to become part of a community of practitioners who are sincerely putting the teachings into practice, giving us
access to a resource that will nourish and sustain our spiritual growth.
With weekly reading assignments from the text, as well as commentary, discussions and meditations on the week's reading, the FP creates the conditions for us to develop deep inner experience of the teachings.
We are currently studying the text Joyful Path of Good Fortune
| For more information about joining the Foundation Program, please email us at info@brooklynmeditation.org |
About Joyful Path of Good Fortune
We all have the potential for self-transformation, and a limitless capacity for the growth of good qualities, but to fulfil this potential we need to know what to do along every stage of our spiritual journey.
With this book, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso offers us step-by-step guidance on the meditation practices that will lead us to lasting inner peace and happiness. With extraordinary clarity, he presents all Buddha's teachings in the order in which they are to be practised, enriching his explanation with stories and illuminating analogies.
Buddha demonstrated how to follow a path of inner transformation that leads to the complete eradication of all traces negativity and confusion from the mind and the attainment of sublime qualities such as universal compassion and wisdom realizing the true nature of all phenomena.
During his life he gave many teachings revealing how the practices that lead to this realization of enlightenment. Later, the great Indian Pandit Atisha arranged all these teachings in the order in which they are to be practiced. This special arrangement became known as the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, or Lamrim.
In Joyful Path of Good Fortune, Geshe Kelsang provides a systematic, step-by-step commentary to these teachings rendering them completely accessible to the modern reader.
Following these practical instructions, we will come to experience for ourselves the joy that arises from making progress on a clear and structured path that leads to full enlightenment. This is a perfect guidebook to the Buddhist path.
