The basic text for this module is Traveling from Confusion to Original Sanity, by Dzogchen Pönlop Rinpoche.
All materials for this module will be online. There is no book purchase required.
Class 1: Introduction to Buddhist Study.
Reading: Class 1 of Traveling from Confusion to Original Sanity.
Audio of talk: September 25, 2014 by Emily Weidman
Class handout
Class 2: The Path is the Goal – Part I
Reading: Class 1 of Traveling from Confusion to Original Sanity
Audio of talk: October 2, 2014 by Emily Weidman
Class handout
Class 3: The Path is the Goal – Part II
Reading: Class 1 of Traveling from Confusion to Original Sanity
Audio of talk: October 9, 2014 by Emily Weidman
Class 4: The First Noble Truth – The Truth of Suffering
Reading: Class 2 of Traveling from Confusion to Original Sanity
Audio of talk: October 16, 2014 by Michael Fagan
Class Handout
Class 5: The Second Noble Truth – The Cause of Suffering: Part 1
Reading: Class 2 of Traveling from Confusion to Original Sanity
Audio of talk: October 23, 2014 by Michael Levin
Reading for The Second Noble Truth – The Cause of Suffering
Reginald Ray Indestructible Truth pp 320-321 pp 322-323
Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism The Development of Ego
Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso, Rinpoche Progressive Stages of Meditation Chapter One
Note on the readings
Class 6: The Second Noble Truth – Part 2
Audio of talk: October 30, 2014 by Michael Levin
The Five Skandhas are: Form, Feeling (Attitude), Perception/Impulse, Formation/Concept and Consciousness
Class 7: The Second Noble Truth – Part III
Audio of talk by: November 6, 2014 Michael Levin
The Wheel of Existence is a depiction of the cause of suffering in the form of a thanka or painting.
Teaching by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche on The Wheel of Life.
Class 8: The Third Noble Truth – The Cessation of Suffering
Audio of talk: November 13, 2014 by Michael Fagan
Class 9: The Fourth Noble Truth – The Path
Audio of talk: November 20, 2014 by Emily Weidman
Reading: Class 2 of Traveling from Confusion to Original Sanity. Read from the section entitled “The Path” to the end of the chapter.
Supplemental reading:Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche The Myth of Freedom The Eightfold Path.
Class Handout