Mondays 16:30-18:00
including 30 mins meditation
at Kodo Kyodan Temple in Yokohama
5 min walk from Higashi Hakuraku Station (Toyoko Line)
12 mins by train from Hiyoshi

Since our Keio class focuses on the situation of Buddhism in contemporary society, there is not much time for learning and analysis of basic Buddhist teachings and concepts. So for the first time, starting in the Spring of 2019, I will be offering an optional regular core Buddhist teachings class on Monday afternoons at my temple in Yokohama together with an optional meditation session.

The book we will study from this semester is the contemporary Tibetan teacher, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s The Future Is Open: Good Karma, Bad Karma, and Beyond Karma (Shambala Publications, 2018).

Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche (1939-1987) is a renowned Tibetan teacher who is one of the first Buddhist masters to bring Tibetan Buddhism to the West and make it comprehensible to not only western but contemporary audiences.

The Future Is Open: Good Karma, Bad Karma, and Beyond Karma shows Trungpa Rinpoche’s depth of realization in teaching about karma and other core Buddhist teachings that are followed in all forms of Buddhism. This is a very accessible yet very deep collection of his talks and will complement the course book for the semester, Rethinking Karma: The Dharma of Social Justice.

We will cover approximately one chapter per week from April 15th to July 1st. I will provide a copy of each chapter the week before to read OR you make like to buy the entire book on Amazon Japan.