Jeanne Corrigal is the guiding teacher for the Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community, and a graduate of the 2017-2021 IMS teacher training program. She deeply appreciates metta and nature based practices. She has been practicing since 1999, and is a graduate of Spirit Rock’s Dedicated Practitioner and Community Dharma Leader Programs. Jeanne is certified with Indigenous Focusing Oriented Trauma Therapy (IFOT), is a certified MBSR teacher, and she has trained with Mindful Schools and Somatic Experiencing. She is Métis, and one of her first teachers in loving presence was Cree Elder Jim Settee.
This talk is grounded in Ajahn Buddhadasa’s teaching of temporary Nibbana. It explores the Satipatthana Sutta as a doorway into freedom and offers the acronym CARE as a way of bringing the Four Noble Truths into whichever practice we are engaged in.
We spend one more week understanding how the paramis show up in groups to support our daily practice. We need never feel alone, with our friends the parami.
We have been practicing the ten paramis, or qualities of heart and mind that support peace. This week we explore how, together, they can create a life of integrity, conviction, and purpose.
Equanimity is seen as the crown of our practice: it is the final parami, as well as the final quality in many other central lists in the Buddhist teaching. We will explore this quality and its liberating invitation this week.