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Date/Time:
This workshop takes place February 20-21, 2021.
Registration
Registration will close 1 hour in advance of the event. Full refunds will be given for cancellation requests up to 1 hour in advance of the event.
Who can attend this event?
Anyone.
Translation
Translation from English will be offered in French, German, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
“Really, you are the very heart of compassion, completely aware, and fully capable of achieving the greatest good—not only for yourself, but for everyone and everything you can imagine.” — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
In this online weekend workshop, Tergar Instructor Tim Olmsted will guide us through the beautiful Buddhist meditation practices that help us connect with our innate capacity for loving-kindness, compassion, and joyful appreciation – for ourselves and others alike.
WHY SHOULD I ATTEND?
It’s not always easy connecting to others. We may often feel frustrated or stuck, or isolated and lonely, or incapable of letting go of negative judgements and unhealthy attachments – or just not able to connect as well as we would like to. Research shows that both our relationships and our own well-being are deeply enriched when we are better able to see our commonality with others, better able to imagine how they experience their lives and the situations we share.
The Buddhist tradition offers us a powerful contemplative meditation practice known as the Four Immeasurables that can connect us with our natural capacity to feel and express kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity. When we begin to recognize that we all share the simple desire to be happy and to avoid suffering – in whatever way we may define or experience them – we are able to perceive the vulnerability, longing, hopes, frustrations, and accomplishments of others and ourselves with greater clarity and sympathy.
WHAT WILL I LEARN?
In this workshop you will learn proven techniques to develop loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity.
- Recognize the natural kindness and compassion you already have
- Develop greater warmth and understanding towards yourself
- Extend kindness and compassion to friends, strangers, and even the most difficult people in your life
- Meet people and situations with less judgment and with more openness and equanimity
- Appreciate and enjoy others’ successes
- Feel better connected with people and less isolated
- Deepen and enrich your relationships
- Cultivate resilience and the ability to grow by facing challenging situations
- Experience a natural sense of joy and appreciation in your life
WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THIS WEBINAR?
- Instruction in the practices of loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity
- Short guided practice sessions
- Q&A with instructor Tim Olmsted
Befriending Yourself — Loving the World with Tim Olmsted
This talk introduces ideas and practices that Tergar Instructor Tim Olmsted will cover in more detail in this event.
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About Tim Olmsted
Tim Olmsted is a Tergar Instructor with decades of experience teaching meditation. He began his Buddhist studies in 1977; in 1981 he moved to Kathmandu to study with Mingyur Rinpoche’s father, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche. During the twelve years that he lived in Nepal, Tim studied with many of the renowned meditation teachers living there and worked as a psychotherapist serving the international community. Tim is one of the founders and senior instructors of the Tergar Meditation Community, for which he regularly travels around the world leading retreats and teaches online. He lives with his wife Glenna in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, where he leads an active community that follows Mingyur Rinpoche’s teachings and those of his family lineage. Tim is the founder and president of the Pema Chödrön Foundation. He is known for the down-to-earth warmth, practicality, and humor of his approach to teaching meditation.
