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LERNEN UND FORTSCHRITT

Curriculum für Praxis und Studium

Bodhi Path bietet einen Lehrplan für Meditationspraxis und -studium, der in authentischen Dharma-Lehren verwurzelt ist und den Bedürfnissen und Bedingungen moderner Dharma-Praktizierender entspricht.

Das Bodhi Path Curriculum basiert auf dem Seven Points of Mind Training (tibetisch: Lojong), ein tiefgreifendes System kontemplativer Praktiken, das Achtsamkeit, Bewusstsein und Einsicht in unsere alltäglichen Erfahrungen bringt, sowohl auf als auch außerhalb des Meditationskissens.

Diese Lehren wurden seit der Zeit des Buddha in einer ununterbrochenen Linie bewahrt und werden in allen Bodhi-Pfad-Zentren zusammen mit unterstützenden Praktiken und Studienthemen gemäß einem vom 14. Shamarpa, Mipham Chokyi Lodro, zusammengestellten Ansatz präsentiert.

Curriculum Development

Shamar Rinpoche spent decades considering how best to benefit modern-day practitioners. He refined his teachings in the West over many years,  and the Bodhi Path community is grateful to have received his personal guidance during that time.

His system of Practice and Study, based on the profound teachings of Lojong, provides a legacy of rigorous, practical teachings that Rinpoche believed will lead the practitioner to genuine spiritual development.

Die Trainieren und Lernen pages, as well as the Books and Resources section, provide support for Shamar Rinpoche’s Bodhi Path legacy of teachings.

Shamar Rinpoche formed the first Bodhi Path Center in 1996 in the United States. In 2004, Shamar Rinpoche gave an early talk for a European audience in Remetschwiel, Germany, in which he provided an overview of plans for what could be learned at Bodhi Path centers. In later years, he further refined his program. Starting in 2007, Shamar Rinpoche provided a sequence of annual teaching programs in the US & Europe, during which he transmitted the basis of what became three important manuals for his students:

  • Grenzenloses Erwachen: Das Herz der buddhistischen Meditation (2013, Bird of Paradise Press)
  • The Path to Awakening: How Buddhism’s Seven Points of Mind Training Can Lead You to a Life of Enlightenment and Happiness (2013, Delphinium Books distributed by Harper Collins)
  • Boundless Wisdom: A Mahamudra Practice Manual (2018, Bird of Paradise Press)

Shamar Rinpoche gave direct advice on how to study sections from these manuals and in what sequence, which is included in the introduction of Grenzenlose Weisheit. All three manuals can be found in Books and Resources.

Bodhi Path is in an ongoing process of collecting Shamar Rinpoche’s recorded teachings in which he taught this material at Bodhi Path centers, and will be adding them over time to our searchable teachings library.