Six Week Discussion Group for Awakening Wisdom: Joy of Living III 

This six-week discussion group is designed to help deepen our understanding and practice of insight meditation as taught in the third level of Joy of Living.

Insight meditation allows us to see how rigid ideas and unconscious beliefs lock us into a cycle of confusion and dissatisfaction. When we bring these beliefs into the light of awareness, however, our perspective naturally shifts. Instead of seeing only the limited version of reality projected by the conceptual mind, our fixation loosens and we experience the fluid, ever-changing nature of perception.

While the various approaches to insight meditation help to uproot the causes of anxiety and suffering, they can also be challenging to work with. This discussion group will offer participants an opportunity to both work more deeply with the individual practices and to share with others about their experiences while doing so.

This discussion group is open to those who have already completed either a weekend or online Joy of Living III program.  It is a two hour session with a tea break in the middle. Please note that the group will meet every other Thursday evening. Although there will be a topic outline for the six sessions, you are welcome to attend even if you cannot make all sessions.  All sessions will be from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. The dates are as follows:

• February 12
• February 26
• March 12
• March 26
• April 9
• April 23