with Karuna Cayton

Tuesdays, 7:00pm – 9:00pm
June 7 – July 5, 2016
(5 classes)

Karma is one of the most misunderstood topics in Eastern Philosophy and yet it is essential to understand if one seeks the true nature of reality. We see things, the world and those around us, as if they are there independently. This is opposite the truth. The law of cause and effect, karma, helps to understand and unravel our misperceptions of the world.

Understand which actions create the causes for happiness and which create the causes for suffering, the importance of our motivation, the various types of karmic results, and various factors which make a karma heavy or light. We will also discuss how to purify negative karma in order to minimize or bypass the future suffering result.

Everyone is welcome!

Although it is part of the Discovering Buddhism program, anyone is welcome to attend — you do not have to have attended previous modules.

Karuna Cayton has been a student of Buddhist psychology and philosophy for over 40 years. A long time student of Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche, he worked for the lamas at Kopan Monastery from 1975–1988. During that time he created and taught the secular studies program for the resident Tibetan and Nepali monks. He also assisted in running the Buddhist programs for foreign visitors and was the co-founder and director of the city center in Kathmandu, Himalayan Yogic Institute.

After returning to the US in 1988 he received his MA in Clinical Psychology from JFK University in 1992. He has worked at the Children's Health Council at Stanford University and trained interns in Narrative Therapy at Mental Research Institute (MRI) in Palo Alto.

Presently, he is the director of The Karuna Group a coaching and counseling project. The Karuna Group works with individuals, couples and families as well as assists business leaders in transforming their organizations into preeminent enterprises based upon the Buddhist principles of Wisdom, Compassion, and Ethics. Karuna also teaches workshops and classes in the integration of western and Buddhist psychology.