Death & the Realms
with Supriya Jain
Thursdays 7:45-9:45p
September 25 - November 20
IRL OR VIRTUAL
Timeline-hopping is real but it’s not what TikTok says. Learn traditional Buddhist cosmology, practices around death & sleep to navigate live transitions and transcend human suffering using wisdom and love. This course helps you develop the understanding and skill required to access new timelines and manipulate reality to shift into the highest realm possible: a Buddha paradise.
This course counts for completion of ACI 8.
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Buddhist Cosmology
🪐 Learn the composition of the universe and how it relates with time.
🪐 Understand the Buddhist approach to the cosmos and universe and time in order to master reality and transcend the human experience
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Death & How to Die
🪦 Learn the buddhist definition of death
🪦 Learn techniques to cultivate death awareness
🪦 Learn how maintaining awareness of your death can make your life extremely vibrant
🪦 Learn about intermeditate states of consciousness between death & rebirth
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Realms & Reincarnation
🌐 Learn about traditional Buddhist realms and the beings that live there
🌐 Learn different ways to reincarnate
🌐 Learn how to hop between realms like a saint and not a 16 y/o on tiktok
Practice Applications
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Meditation
GUIDED WEEKLY MEDITATIONS TO SUPPORT COURSE COMPLETION. Every dharma course includes a weekly optional Monday Night Meditation Hall, designed to support a students meditation practice development. In order to reach the deep stages of meditation required to initiate fundamental personal change, practitioners must get to 60 minutes of perfect concentration per day. Meditation Hall guides help students identify where they are at on the path to deep meditation, and then provide techniques and advice to increase meditative concentration, or buld a meditation practice from the ground up.
*This is an optional course offering.
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Journaling Practice
DAILY JOURNALING PRACTICE. Learn traditional journaling technique for Buddhist consciousness development. In order to refine and access the states of mind necessary to achieve deep states of meditation required to shift realms, it is essential to track and train the general mental state throughout the day. Students will learn a traditional technique for doing so and also answer prompts about death awareness throughout the day.
Particularly motivated students are encouraged to sign up for MASTER CLASS, where an expert teacher with 30 years of experience, Hector Marcel, will read students’ journals, provide comments, and host a weekly 90-minute deeper download with Q&A to triage specific questions.
*This is an optional course offering.
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Navigating Life Transitions
Learn how the application of death awareness, the laws of karma, and the Buddhist concept of emptiness removes the power of identity problems such as low self-esteem, self-criticism, depression and more.
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Community Connection
Learn in community and connect with like-minded individuals for accountability and support in building a meditation practice and a new, healthier, happier way of living.
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Certification
Students have the option to complete required homeworks, quizzes, meditations and final exam for course certification. This course fulfills the requirements for course 8 of an 18-course curriculum certification in the sutra teachings of Tibetan Buddhism. If a student completes these 18 courses and a meditation teacher training and yoga teacher training they are eligible to apply to teach at Three Jewels.
Lead Teachers
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Course Lead
Supriya Jain is a strategist at an EdTech startup, and discovered Three Jewels on a lunch break. She has since become a daily meditator, curious yogi, and dedicated dharma practitioner. Supriya has 400 hours of meditation and yoga asana teacher training with Three Jewels, and over 500 hours of yoga asana & acupressure training with Rose Erin Vaughan. She has also completed a rigorous study of the 18 Foundational Buddhist Courses as offered through the Asian Classic Institute, which parallels the basic core of information that a Geshe (Doctor of Theology) learns at Tibetan Buddhist monastery. Supriya has volunteered on the Three Jewels Leadership team since 2018. She is currently Director of Dharma, and oversees production of all Dharma courses. Her motivation is to help others find the discipline and depthless joy of a spiritual practice that delivers extra-ordinary results. She is indebted to Three Jewels for revealing her teachers.IG: @internet.dakini
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Master Class
Hector Marcel has been studying and practicing Tibetan Buddhism for over 25 years. He is a passionate organizational change management consultant helping executives drive transformational change in their organizations through an emphasis on culture, people, and service. He is a master teacher of meditation and Eastern philosophy, linking ancient Asian ideas to modern western systems for individuals and teams.
Hector serves on the board of the Asian Classics Institute, he is the director of the 108 Lives Project and is the president of Three Jewels. He believes that meditation opens the door to every personal achievement. Hector is treasured by his students for his immense kindness, humor, and generous wisdom.
IG: @wakeupist
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Meditation Hall
John-Chris Record is a Dharma, Meditation, and Yoga teacher at Three Jewels. An attorney for nearly a decade, John-Chris is a member of the oldest and largest public defender firm in the country, where he represents low-income elder New Yorkers at risk of eviction. John-Chris has completed both the Meditation and Yoga Teacher Trainings at Three Jewels, as well as formal mentorships in both modalities. He completed his 18 Foundational Asian Classics Institute (“ACI”) Sutra Courses in 2021. He loves to create, and loves to learn— by diving deep into the cultures and subcultures epitomized by this strange portal called the East Village. Finding ways to honor his lineage, and alchemize its teachings for the New York of today brings him joy.