Cultivating Friendship as a Practice & Perspective
with Lhasha Tizer MS, CDL
A Seven-Week Series: March 16 through April 27th
Monday evenings from 6:30 to 8:00
$225, Sol Center Member Discount Applicable
This class series is a thoughtful exploration and investigation of the meaning of friendship and its practice in today’s often confusing world. Using the Buddhist framework of spiritual friendship, each week will focus on one of seven particular qualities and its relevance to oneself, others, and the world at large.
As a practice and perspective these qualities help us deepen friendship as a basic and important human relationship, and an essential mindset from which we relate to the world around us. Friendship has within it leverage upon which many of our actions hinge, and a compass to offer us direction when we feel confused or lost. Through these teachings we strengthen our own self-compassion and will gravitate to our kindred people.
We will also look deeper at discovering ways to open space for diverse friendships, including building bridges to differences between us. Finding our freedom and larger place in the human family, in an often unjust world, will require our capacity to be, feel, and cultivate relationships with people from various backgrounds and identities.
Lhasha Tizer, MS. is a certified Community Dharma Leader trained in Insight Meditation through Spirit Rock Meditation Center. She is a long time practitioner and teacher of meditation and mindfulness, studying for 46 years, and has been teaching Buddhist Studies since 2010. Through Desert Insight Meditation, her teaching community, she offers classes, book groups, and retreats at Tucson Community Meditation Center and beyond. In her private practice, The Mindfulness Path, Lhasha guides, consults and provides individual instruction in mindful living, meditation practices, and mindful inquiry. Lhasha has a diverse background with a teaching certificate in “Chado”, The Japanese Way of Tea, with roots in Zen Buddhism. She has practiced as a Holistic Health Counselor, a Holistic nutritionist specializing in tea nutrition, and is a co-author of the book Tea Here Now. She is devoted to sharing the benefits of her personal studies and practices through her teachings with others, to enrich their lives with caring, non-harming, love, well-being, peace, and happiness.
