online courses
This e-course is offered through Awake in the Wild
Embodying Nature’s Perfection: An Exploration of the Six Paramitas
tuesdays @ 5pm pst / 8pm est beginning feb 11 on zoom
The Buddhist concept of the Bodhisattva comes to us from the Mahayana tradition dating back over 2,000 years. The Bodhisattva is a being who has attained enlightenment, but chooses to reincarnate over and over until every single being has been liberated from suffering.
To navigate the world, the Bodhisattva embodies Six Paramitas (Perfections) - Generosity, Harmonious Conduct, Patience, Enthusiastic Effort, Concentration, and Understanding / Wisdom. This course will examine the Six Perfections and turn to Nature as our living teacher of how to more deeply embody them in our day to day life.
The course consists of land-based practices, journaling, art, ritual, and meditation. It is secular, and intended for everyone!
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting — over and over announcing your place in the family of things.
– Mary Oliver
