"Making a Home of the Heart: The Buddha's Teachings on Friendship" is an eight-week course exploring the four practices of loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. These are the brahma viharas, or "The Divine Abodes," four beautiful qualities of mind and heart which support our meditation practice. By systematically developing each one and understanding the relationship between them, we gradually chip away at the solid sense of "me" and "mine" which is the source of so much suffering in our lives.

In Pali, the language of the early Buddhist teachings, the word Metta has connotations of acceptance, friendship, and goodwill and is often translated as loving-kindness or unconditional friendliness. In this eight-week series, metta is our starting-place, showing us over and over again the possibility of extending our circles of care.

Buddhist teachings on the environment and the writings of Indigenous authors and teachers such as Robin Wall Kimmerer will be woven into each class, along with suggestions for embodied practices.

Tuesday evenings, January 14 - February 18, 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.

 Unfolding Body,
3276 2nd Street
Cumberland BC

Registration Fee options: By donation or $15 - $20 per class or $120 - $160 for the series. You may send an e-transfer to margostoryteller@gmail.com. No security password is needed.
Class size is limited to 15, so please sign up early if you would like to attend.