beacon yoga centre

Loving Kindness, Compassion, Empathetic Joy, Equanimity and Feeding our Demons

 

Learning to cultivate the qualities of kindness, compassion, equanimity, and empathetic joy can be a transformative journey for anyone. Michael Bobrowicz, with over 50 years of experience in Buddhist meditation and philosophy, offers a unique opportunity to explore these aspects through practical meditations.

 

These meditations, designed for ordinary individuals, aim to help recognize and nurture these inherent qualities within us. The structured approach of the course, spanning 11 weeks, breaks down the practice into manageable steps for both beginners and experienced meditators.

 

The emphasis is on experiential learning, with regular home practice and feedback sessions, ensures a deeper understanding and integration of these qualities into daily life. Despite the commitment required, the course acknowledges the participants' busy schedules, with practices lasting around 30 to 45 minutes on average.

 

Michael's passion for meditation is evident in his teaching approach, aiming to share the joy and benefits he has experienced through his own practice and teachings.

 

Join Michael Bobrowicz on this enlightening journey of self-discovery and mindfulness, where the path to kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity awaits.

 

Tuesday evenings at 7pm in the Satsang room at Sivananda Ashram starting 29 April. To enrol, please contact the awesome Janet Voss on vost_8@hotmail.com

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The classes are simultaneously live and on Zoom for those living at a distance, and recorded for those in other time zones.

Learning to cultivate the qualities of kindness, compassion, equanimity, and empathetic joy can be a transformative journey for anyone. Michael Bobrowicz, with over 50 years of experience in Buddhist meditation and philosophy, offers a unique opportunity to explore these aspects through practical meditations.

 

These meditations, designed for ordinary individuals, aim to help recognize and nurture these inherent qualities within us. The structured approach of the course, spanning 11 weeks, breaks down the practice into manageable steps for both beginners and experienced meditators.

 

The emphasis is on experiential learning, with regular home practice and feedback sessions, ensures a deeper understanding and integration of these qualities into daily life. Despite the commitment required, the course acknowledges the participants' busy schedules, with practices lasting around 30 to 45 minutes on average.

 

Michael's passion for meditation is evident in his teaching approach, aiming to share the joy and benefits he has experienced through his own practice and teachings.

 

Join Michael Bobrowicz on this enlightening journey of self-discovery and mindfulness, where the path to kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity awaits.

 

Cost: There is no charge for the course. We put out a bowl and we use all donations to assist in the cost of running the Ashram. We ask you to be as generous as your personal circumstances allow .

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Testimonies:

I have never found that it helped me to listen to those endless voices (most of which were in my own mind) that told me that I ‘ought to’ or ‘should’ have more compassion or loving kindness. In fact, this just made me feel miserable, and dejected by what I saw as my failings.

 

What has helped me, was learning that there is a series of very practical meditations which teach how to systematically develop loving kindness, compassion, equanimity, and empathetic joy and that gave me the skill and courage to also look at the more hidden and protected parts of consciousness.

 

This set of meditations dates to the Buddha’s lifetime.

They were not designed for ‘special’ people, but for ordinary people like you and me.

The Buddha said that the reality is that we all have and have always had all the qualities; the meditations enable us to recognize them and set aside the obstacles to having them present.

Each of the meditations uses a series of small steps to enable us to understand what the words might mean, and to demonstrate these qualities first towards ourselves, and then towards others.

 

Each of us is confronted at least some time by circumstances where our ability to access Loving Kindness, Compassion, Empathetic Joy and Equanimity is called upon and we are beset at times by poor mind states.. This series of meditations is designed to open the door within us so we might access those states more readily.

 

There are now more than eight billion of us on the planet. Each day we meet people: in the supermarket, at work and so on. Each of these encounters is an opportunity in which to practise these meditations. These opportunities are Immeasurable, Boundless, Limitless.

 

The course runs over 11 weeks. The meditations are broken down into small steps which are practical, easy to learn and practise. The emphasis is largely experiential including regular practice at home and opportunities for feedback. The course is suitable both for beginners and for experienced meditators with an interest in a systematic approach.

 

It does require a commitment both to attend the classes and, for the period of the course, to try out the meditations at home between classes. However, the time commitment is not designed to be arduous and considers that most people who will be enrolling for the course have busy lives. On average the practices take about 30 minutes.

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Michael Bobrowicz has been studying Buddhist meditation and philosophy for more than 40 years. He studied for over 20 years with the Venerable Namgyal Rinpoche and the Venerable Cecilie Kwiat. Having worked in private enterprise, owning companies, and in the public sector, Michael has a good understanding of how to integrate meditation with a busy career. Stepping out of the workforce in 2007, he studied and did long retreats with the Venerable Cecilie Kwiat. Michael loves meditation and is keen to share that love with other people, “I work from experience, which in my case is very ‘nuts and bolts’ based on what I learned from long silent retreats; how to meditate and why, has been very important to me. I was lucky enough to have teachers who not only loved meditation but had the skill to explain why they loved meditation. My aim is to try to show people what a joy meditation can be.”

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