John Makransky

Cultivating Love and Wisdom as Expressions of Innate Wholeness

John Makransky, PhD

March 9 - 11, 2012

Price: $150.00

Program Contact: Catherine Dalton. Email: catherinebdalton@yahoo.com.

This weekend retreat is for both new and experienced meditators. Participants will learn powerful meditations from Tibetan Buddhism that help bring out latent powers of loving compassion and wisdom from the ground of our being.  Such meditations, adapted for people of all faiths and backgrounds, can make us more fully present to self and others by awakening an unconditional attitude from within that nourishes all, while challenging us to see more of the potential in all.  When this unity of compassion and wisdom is embodied in relationships and action, it can become a great force to heal our lives and world.  The ancient bodhisattva way of awakening is rediscovered here and now in the particulars of family, work, and service.  By making contemplations from Tibet accessible to people of all faiths and backgrounds, this retreat is also an exercise in deep mutual learning across religious boundaries.  The weekend will include guided meditations as well as time for questions and discussion.

About the Teacher

John Makransky

John Makransky, PhD

John Makransky is a professor of Buddhism at Boston College and the founder and guiding teacher of the Foundation for Active Compassion, which provides meditation workshops and retreats both in Buddhist contemplative settings and also in secular settings for peace and social justice activists, ministers, social workers, teachers, therapists, counselors, health care and other helping… more »