TEACHINGS & MEDITATIONS 2012

Teachings start on the 25th January
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: 1 Glenn Ave, Mosman Park, 6011

The "Four Hundred Stanzas" was written by Arya Deva who was the foremost disciple of Nagarjuna, the great Buddhist logician. Even though Arya Deva was born in Sri Lanka, he arrived in South India to study under Nagarjuna. He became a great scholar like his teacher and wrote Four Hundred Stanzas as a supplementary to Nagarjuna's "Root Wisdom". It has sixteen Chapters. The first eight explains the Conventional Truth and the other eight about the Ultimate Truth.
The Buddha taught that ignorance is the root cause of all our suffering. The ignorance in this context is not merely lack of understanding but rather a misconception of our perception which fabricates the nature of phenomena and the self which is responsible for our clinging dearly to the self, possessions, friends, fame, status and so forth which in turn brings frustration and agitation. Enquiry into understanding this nature and ridding of the misconception and understand the true nature of the self is known as realization of emptiness which brings peace and tranquilty because it stops anger, desire and greed.
It will help bring about awareness of the self and make a new discovery about oneself and others. It is therefore suitable for every one who is interested in discovering oneself.


From Geshe La
 

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