Information for those Members of the Awakened Heart Sangha who are interested in Taking Refuge or The Bodhisattva vow with Lama Shenpen.

Taking Refuge and Bodhisattva Vows

Religion & Spirituality

Hookham, Lama Shenpen

Buddhism

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

People begin to meditate for different reasons. Maybe you want to be calmer, more relaxed, at peace or at ease. Maybe you are curious about what Buddhism and meditation have to offer. Maybe you have a sense of being unhappy with your view of reality and want some sense of meaning or truth. Or maybe tyou have an inkling that there is something to discover beyond their everyday reality and are looking for answers to some of life’s big questions, such as, why is there so much suffering and pain? What does death mean? What are we doing here at all? Meditation is at the heart of Buddhism, and at the heart of the ‘Living the Awakened Heart’ training. All the themes that you explore in the course relate to meditation. By reflecting on these different themes, you will be homing in on your own direct experience. That experience is then stabilised and taken deeper through the meditation taught in this book.

The Heart of Meditation: An Introduction to Formless Meditation Practice

This booklet is about long-term training in the Awakened Heart Sangha. It is written for students who are making, or thinking of making, the Awakened Heart Sangha their spiritual home, the spiritual community they are supported by and support in return. It gives an idea of what it means to be training in the Awakened Heart Sangha. Living the Awakened Heart is intended to be read alongside its companion book, A Lifetime of Practice. While this book gives you an overview of the content and context of the teachings, A Lifetime of Practice describes the structure of the Awakened Heart Sangha, and gives an overview of how the student progresses through the training.

Living the Awakened Heart

Apramana means measureless or limitless and refers to theBuddha qualities of limitless love, compassion, sympathetic joy and equalness. The Buddha is described as having completely equal love and compassion for all beings, wishing them all the highest joy of complete Awakening. This is a state that only a Buddha knows, so although others may seem to have equal and limitless love and compassion for all beings, they do not really know what the highest joy is and so cannot wish it fully for others. Thus only a Buddha can truly rest in the Apramanas. The rest of us are training in order to do so.This is a small booklet to support students on the living the Awakened Heart training engage in this profound meditation practice.

Apramanas: Practicing the four immeasurables (Living the Awakened Heart)

A clear-headed and relatable guidebook for navigating the student-teacher relationship by one of the first female Buddhist teachers in the West. All major forms of Buddhism stress the need for a teacher. However, the importance of having a guide or guru is sometimes a source of cultural and spiritual confusion as Buddhism expands in the West. A clear understanding of the Buddhist view of the guru is essential for the student-teacher relationship to be beneficial for one's spiritual growth. Collecting over fifty years of personal experiences as both a student and a teacher, Shenpen Hookham writes candidly of the opportunities and challenges facing modern Dharma students in the West who wish to study with a teacher. Traditional texts often do not reflect how the student-teacher relationship manifests in practice, which leaves many pressing questions and a great deal of confusion in communities taking root in the West. With honesty and clarity, Hookham discusses the roles of the teacher, practices related to the guru, and commonly asked questions she receives as a teacher. This handbook is the first of its kind, breaking down in a pragmatic and relatable way everything you need to know to enter a student-teacher relationship with open eyes and an open heart.

The Guru Principle: A Guide to the Teacher-Student Relationship in Buddhism

Shambhala

Drawing from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of approaching and preparing for death, Lama Shenpen Hookham offers Westerners like herself practical descriptions of the attitudes, the practices, and the considerations that surround our own death, caring for those dying and also care-givers. Of great interest to those seeking a positive yet realistic coming to terms with death, its Buddhist context provides further teaching on the Tibetan Books of the Dead, one of the most well-known Tibetan texts.
Lama Shenpen Hookham has practiced in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition for over 30 years. With Khenpo Rinpoche her root teacher, she focuses on the Mahamudra and Dzogchen teachings. She is the author of The Buddha Within and Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness.

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