This talk will be about the 3 poisons (passion, aggression, ignorance) and how easy it is to injest or inject them when it comes to relationships. It’s one thing to be all oh I’m so compassionate and peaceful but it’s another to fall in love without demands or survive a breakup without losing your dignity.
I’ll also touch on the 3 yana approach to relationships. In Buddhism, there are many references to the Hinayana (Foundational Vehicle), Mahayana (Great Vehicle), and Vajrayana (Diamond Vehicle).
To oversimplify vastly, Hinayana practices relate to issues of personal conduct, decency, and basic human ok-ness.
Mahayana practices are about about love, compassion, and the “six paramitas” (transcendent actions): generosity, patience, discipline, exertion, mindfulness, and wisdom.
Vajrayana practices are about working with everyday life as the basis for enlightenment. In other words, whatever happens, good, bad, or ugly, is viewed as the means for waking up completely.
What happens when we apply the principles of the 3 yanas to love, romance, and friendship? That’s what this talk is about.
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8 responses so far ↓
1 Carol Statella // Feb 18, 2008 at 10:14 am
amen. Huge topic, one I grapple with constantly, sometimes even with pleasure! Have been so stoked about what’s going on in NYC with the Interdependence Project–love how substantive their programs seem to be, and dig their visual aesthetic, too.
Hope to check it out when I go up NYC in April. All the best to you. Rock on.
2 susan // Feb 18, 2008 at 10:23 am
Hi Carol. Yes, huge. I think the fun part comes from knowing that you’re engaging something so real and important.
ID Project is fantastic. How did you become aware of them?
Please continue to rock on, yourself.
3 Dave Wendel // Feb 18, 2008 at 11:51 am
Sounds like an interesting topic. Will your talk be recorded for their Podcast? If so I look forward to listening to it later this week.
4 susan // Feb 18, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Yes, it will be recorded. I’ll post a link on this site and I’m sure they’ll post where they normally do. Thanks for asking and hope you find it useful!
5 Carol Statella // Feb 20, 2008 at 1:38 pm
I’m a Shambhala lurker/lurkee.
Also, discovered them through interest in Cyndi Lee’s OM Yoga, etc….and will be in NYC in about a month, so had been checking the site out.
Hope it went great.
6 susan // Feb 20, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Lurk on!
It was great to talk to the interdepend-ees. A great group. Will post podcast when it’s available.
7 David // Feb 25, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Hey Carol ! This is your brother, David, the divorce attorney. For what it’s worth, I’ve narrowed this down to “don’t view yourself through the eyes of others, but through the eyes of God.”
8 Carol Statella-Harris // Mar 7, 2008 at 6:02 pm
hey bro…OMG you can find me anywhere…I’d better watch out! I guess you don’t need to hire private investigators in your firm, you’ll do just fine. hahahahaha! Anyway, that’s a beautiful quote. One I resonate with very much, and live out sorta kinda mighta. Now, to track YOU down, BWAHAHAHAHAHA…..
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