Heart of a Warrior Saint
with Santy Wang, John-Chris Record & Supriya Jain
Thursdays 7:45-9:45p
February 12- June 25
IRL OR VIRTUAL
Learn how to open your heart, and keep it open— no matter what’s happening. Master Shantideva is a celebrated teacher who surprised his monastic colleagues hundreds of years ago with a text so radically useful that it remains popular to this day.
For Buddhists, the level of pleasure get out of life is directly related to your ability to love people and situations as they are. But life is challenging and loving can feel impossible a times. The Six Perfections are a classical technique to start where you are and develop qualities of resilience, joy, intelligence, focus and groundedness from the bottom up.
This course counts for completion of ACI 10-12.
This Course is a Triptych
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Love & Truth
February 12-March 26, 2026 with Santy Wang
❤️🔥 HOW TO LIVE LIKE A SAINT
❤️🔥 REMOVING OBSTACLES TO UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
❤️🔥 MENTAL TRAINING FOR UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
❤️🔥 THE PRACTICE OF THE 6 PERFECTIONS
❤️🔥 REMOVING ANGER, ADDICTION, JEALOUSY, PRIDE & IGNORANCE
📖 Source: A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life (Bodhisattvacharya Avatara) by Master Shantideva (700 AD), and the commentary Entry Point for Children of the Victorious Buddhas (Gyalse Juk-ngok) by Gyaltsab Je (1364-1432).
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Anger & Power
April 2-May 7, 2026 with John-Chris Record
⚔️ DEVELOPING PATIENCE, JOY AND CONCENTRATION
⚔️ WORKING WITH ANGER
⚔️ HOW SELFISHNESS PRODUCES SUFFERING
⚔️ OBSTACLES TO JOY AND CONCENTRATION
⚔️ HOW YOUR EXPERIENCE OF YOUR LIFE IS CREATED
📖 Source: A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life (Bodhisattvacharya Avatara) by Master Shantideva (700 AD), and the commentary Entry Point for Children of the Victorious Buddhas (Gyalse Juk-ngok) by Gyaltsab Je (1364-1432).
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Wisdom & Joy
May 14-June 25, 2026 with Supriya Jain
🌈 DEVELOPING WISDOM
🌈 HOW TO ACHIEVE HIGH MEDITATIVE REALIZATIONS
🌈 EMPTINESS & DEPENDENT ORIGINATION
🌈 5 HEAPS & PERCEPTION
📖 Source: A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life (Bodhisattvacharya Avatara) by Master Shantideva (700 AD), and the commentary Entry Point for Children of the Victorious Buddhas (Gyalse Juk- ngok) by Gyaltsab Je (1364- 1432).
This Course Includes
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Daily 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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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.
There is a special Whatsapp channel for conversation, questions and integration, all while networking with fellow practitioners, meditators and teachers with years of experience.
You’ll also have the option to schedule 1:1 sessions with course leads to ask personal application questions.
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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.
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Lead Teachers
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Course Lead
Santy Wang (they/them) teaches meditation in an approachable and applicable way to both beginning and advanced meditators. They teach from the heart and their personal experiences on how meditation applies to support their mental and emotional well being so others can be inspired to apply meditation in a similar manner. Santy is a formally trained fine artist and professional creative problem-solver who is currently the Experiential Producer at Nike's Brand Experience Design team. While maintaining a rigorous professional career during the week, Santy also maintains a consistent spiritual practice through the study of Tibetan Buddhism and meditation. Santy completed Three Jewels' 200-hour meditation teacher training in 2018 and has regularly been teaching meditation classes as well as supporting Three Jewels' Meditation Teacher Trainings.
IG: @innermethods
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Course Lead
John-Chris Record (he/him) 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.
IG: @johnchrisrecord
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Course Lead
Supriya Jain (she/her) 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: @suprecious