planetary dharma

dr. John churchill

Every Thursday evening: 6-8 pm mountain time on Zoom

This class is now being hosted at our sister non-profit site, Karuna Mandala.

This class emphasizes a full-spectrum exploration of Planetary Dharma, a fourth-turning teaching that synthesizes Buddhist contemplative science, psychodynamic integration, embodiment, adult ego-development, and esotericism into a Western Bodhisattva path for the 21st century. When the path of the Bodhisattva, the awakening warrior, and her path of freedom and fulfillment through service to all, is grounded in sacred world and contextualized within a contemporary Time Wheel teaching we then find a Universal vision that goes beyond Buddhism itself.

It is a vision of Interbeing, the deep interdependence that we share with an interconnected holonic kosmos in all its planes of expression. This Universal way is a teaching for our time, it is deeply humanistic, planetary in its scope, aspirational in its vision of possibility, and calls us to a heroic altruism based on an evolved perspective of what it means to be a true human-being.

As a contemplative approach this fourth-turning practice path integrates Buddhist contemplative psychology from the sutra (insight calm/staying), Mahayana (openness/compassion), process (vajrayana, and essence (mahamudra and ati yoga)traditions of practice.

Each class consists of a dharma talk, Q&A, and a guided meditation.