Making the Mind Spacious
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
7:00pm – 9:00pm
livestreamed on Facebook
Lama Yeshe would frequently talk about the limitations of
the "narrow mind" and how it creates so many of our
problems. In this session, we will explore the habitual ways
that we create our own difficulties through maintaining a
constricted and limited focus in our lives. We will also
discuss how to cultivate a more vast and spacious view to
enable us to open our minds and hearts to the opportunity
for awakening in every moment.
The evening includes a meditation on the sky-like mind.
Don Handrick is the resident
teacher at Thubten Norbu Ling Buddhist Center in Santa Fe,
NM, and he teaches for the FPMT at the Ksitigarbha Tibetan
Buddhist Center in Taos, NM. Don also serves as a Buddhist
teacher for Liberation Prison Project, which includes
teaching Buddhism at a local prison in New Mexico. Don's
study and practice of Buddhism began in 1993 when he read
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal
Rinpoche. Over the next two years he practiced with Rigpa,
Sogyal Rinpoche's organization, until he began attending
classes with Venerable Robina Courtin at Tse Chen Ling,
the FPMT center in San Francisco.
At the beginning of 1998, Don left the Bay Area to attend
the FPMT's Masters Program of Buddhist Studies in Sutra
and Tantra, a full-time seven-year residential study
program in Tuscany, Italy, taught by the incomparable
scholar and kind Spiritual Friend, Geshe Jampa Gyatso. By
2004, he successfully completed all five subjects of the
program and received an FPMT final certificate with high
honors. Soon after, Don moved to Santa Fe and served as
the Spiritual Program Coordinator for Thubten Norbu Ling,
and in 2006 he was appointed Resident Teacher.
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