No Hope, No Fear: The Genuine Heart of Spiritual Practice with Frank Berliner

This program has been cancelled. Frank Berliner will be teaching again in the Fall. We all want happiness and usually seek it in what we imagine will give us lasting security or comfort. But whatever the form—possessions, status, relationships, cherished beliefs or meaningful experiences—it never lasts. Yet still we try, only to find ourselves alone in an increasingly desperate struggle between our hope and our fear. Whether we call ourselves worldly or spiritual people, this struggle is the same.

What, if anything, lies beyond this seeming dead-end?

This is the core issue we will explore through guided meditation, lectures, discussion and poetry.

Frank Berliner, MA, is a core faculty member at Naropa University, where he teaches Buddhist and Western humanistic/existential psychology and has pioneered the teaching of meditation on-line there since 1999. A senior student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, he has served as national director for Shambhala Training, and executive director and resident teacher of the Shambhala Meditation Center in Berkeley, California. He now maintains a private practice as a psychotherapist and organizational consultant in Boulder, Colorado, specializing in executive coaching, communication and conflict resolution.

Please arrive between 2 and 5pm on Friday, February 23. Program ends with lunch at 12:30pm on Sunday, February 25. View Detailed Program Information.