Buddha's Last Temptation

Registration required: https://victoria.shambhala.org/program-details/?id=807008

This Friday to Sunday afternoon program is designed to help us develop as spiritual warriors. Ira Rechtshaffer uses a combination of dharma, psychotherapy and meditation practice to guide us along this path.
Buddha’s last temptation before enlightenment was his confrontation with the four maras. The maras represent aspects of our mind that sabotage our path by seducing us with pleasure, ego inflation, emotional reactivity, and by provoking fear. Many people regard situations of intense emotion as if they were demons.
Buddhism helps us befriend these demons to communicate with the parts of ourselves that we may have denied and disowned. When we ask our demons what they want from us, we enlist them as helpers on our path, who remind us to use adverse circumstances and emotional hot spots to fuel our spiritual journey.
Please join us as we engage in the practice of befriending our demons.
Facilitator: Ira Rechtshaffer Ph.D. [www.wayofthemandala.com] has practiced psychospiritual psychotherapy for the past 35 years and has taught Buddhist philosophy and meditation for the past 40 years. Ira is the author of 4 books including Mindfulness and Madness: Money, Food, Sex, and the Sacred; and What Was in Buddha's Left Hand?: Tantric Teachings to Transform Neurosis into Sanity.
Questions? Contact
[victoria.shambhala@gmail.com](mailto:victoria.shambhala@gmail.com)
Co-ordinator: Linda Gould