"Making a Home of the Heart: The Buddha's Teachings on Friendship" is a four-week course exploring 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 discover new ways of relating to ourself and to others..

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, February 4 - February 25, 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.

 Unfolding Body,
3276 2nd Street
Cumberland BC

Registration Fee options: By donation or $15 - $20 per class or $60 for the series. You may send an e-transfer to margostoryteller@gmail.com. No security password is needed.
Drop ins are welcome. Class size is limited to 15, so please sign up early if you would like to attend.