Venue: KB223, 2/F, Knowles Building, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
Session 1: 7:00–9:30 pm on December 2, 2014 (Tuesday)
Session 2: 7:00–9:30 pm on December 5, 2014 (Friday)
Conducted in English․ Free admission
About Ani Zamba
Bhikshuni Zamba Chozom was born in London in 1948 and is one of the first Western women to take full monastic vows in multiple Buddhist traditions. She began as a nun in Tibetan Vajrayana, and was later ordained within the Korean Seon and Chinese Chan lineages. Her background in Buddhist philosophy and practice is extensive and rich, covering a period of 44 years.
Ani Zamba. From Ani Zamba Facebook
Ani has had the extraordinary opportunity to study and practice under some of the most highly realized Vajrayana, Mahayana, and Theravadin masters of the last century. She has devoted many years to solitary retreat in several countries in Asia, where she lived for 30 years. For the past 14 years, Ani Zamba has lived in Brazil, teaching, practicing, and establishing Dharma centers throughout the region.
Ani Zamba has dedicated the past four decades to turning the wheel of Dharma at the behest of her teachers. With a refreshing scientific, down-to-earth, and direct style, Ani helps us to unravel the “mind” and the “nature of consciousness,” illuminating how to work with daily life situations as a basis for our path to Liberation.
Abstract
“The Cost of Illusion” series of teachings is a step-by-step psychological journey of discovery. It reveals how the illusion of our ego is constructed and maintained so that what is now actually a very intelligent and sophisticated fantasy appears to be our reality. At present, it is difficult for us to appreciate how we personally construct our experiences of life moment by moment.
As we begin to unravel the various conditions that support our illusory and distorted way of seeing, we perceive that the confusion it produces has naturally become the “ups and downs” of our daily experience. We also see that through an in-depth investigation of the elements that make up ego psychology, we can find out how to deconstruct and reconstruct the way we see so we are no longer bound by our distorted dualistic vision.
We can learn how to free our perception of its conditioning so that we can begin to see in a more and more awakened way—one that no longer results in the arising of our neurotic psychological habits and tendencies, which are the fundamental basis of our confusion and suffering.
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Sponsored by: Tung Lin Kok Yuen
Organized by: The Centre of Buddhist Studies, The University of Hong Kong