| Welcome |
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| PROGRAM STRUCTURE |
| – Course Components |
| – Reading Assignments |
| – Writing Assignments |
| – Service Work |
| – Mentor Interviews |
| – Optional Activities |
| COURSE INFO |
| – Contacts, Communications and Pumble |
| – Group Agreements |
| – Payment, Withdrawal and Completion |
| MONTH BY MONTH |
| – Before Our First Workshop |
| – September Karuna – Compassion Workshop 1: 09/26 Workshop 2: 09/30 |
| – October Dana – Generosity Workshop 1: 10/10 Workshop 2: 10/24 |
| – November Sila – Virtue Workshop 1: 11/07 Workshop 2: 11/21 |
| – December Nekkhama – Renunciation Workshop 1: 12/12 Workshop 2: 12/19 |
| – January Panna – Wisdom Workshop 1: 01/16 Workshop 2: 01/23 |
| – February Virya – Energy Workshop 1: 02/06 Workshop 2: 02/13 |
| – March Khanta – Patience Workshop 1: 03/13 Workshop 2: 03/20 |
| – April Sacca – Truth Workshop 1: 04/03 Workshop 2: 04/10 |
| – May Aditthana – Resolve Workshop 1: 05/08 Workshop 2: 05/15 |
| – June Metta – Lovingkindness Workshop 1: 06/05 Workshop 2: 06/12 |
| – July Upekkha – Equanimity Workshop 1: 07/10 Workshop 2: 07/17 |
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September
KARUNA – COMPASSION
Chaplaincy Skill – Meeting
Workshop date: 09/29/2023
“As the Boddhisattvas thousand eyes behold the world’s suffering,
Compassion awakens to perform the work of a Buddha.“
CLASS RECORDINGS
TO DO BEFORE OCTOBER CLASS:
– Practice regularly with paramita of the month: Compassion
– Start service work or develop a plan accordingly
– Meet with your buddy and get to know one another’s motivation for enrolling in this training
– Meet with your small group (virtually or in person) and discuss the impact of the September workshop
– Have a Mentor Interview if you are scheduled here
– Write the Dharma Story assignment: ‘Tending the Sick’. For more guidelines around writing Dharma Story assignments, see here.
– Read the September workshop follow-up articles posted below
– Read at least 50% of the Book-of-the-Month (click here for schedule)
READ
ABOUT BUDDHIST CHAPLAINCY
About Buddhist Chaplaincy – by Gil Fronsdal
About Buddhist Chaplaincy – by Paul Haller
About Buddhist Chaplaincy – by Jennifer Block
Chaplaincy- A Brief Intro
Structure of a Care Relationship
What Does a Chaplain Do?
We Are All Healers – Henri Nouwen
INTRODUCTION TO PARAMIS
A Treatise on the Paramis
The 10 Perfections – a poem
COMPASSION
Compassionate Mind Healthy Body
Compassion & the Bodhisattva vows
CHAPLAINCY COMPETENCIES
The Four Domains of Competency (Short)
The Four Domains of Competency (Long)
HINDRANCES RITUAL
Find a small, smooth stone, or a similar object that can be written on. A piece of paper or card can also serve. Hold the object in your hand and closing your eyes, bring to mind your intention for the year. Then ask yourself, what might be the most significant obstacle to this intention be? Identify the obstacle or the hindrance and carefully, opening your eyes, write it on the stone/object/paper with a marker.
How will you relate to this obstacle? Will you part with it immediately and release it from your grasp? Might you bury it, put it out to sea or give it away?
Or is there a way in which this obstacle can be your teacher in the coming weeks and months? Might you keep it, put it in your pocket, or place it on your altar?
“Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” – Rilke