The Journey and the Guide
Eight-Week Buddhism Course
Starts Thursday 4th September 2025, 7.30pm – 9.30pm
Led by Vajrashura
How do we make the most of life? We all want to live a valuable and fulfilling life. We want our life to be our own, not predictable, boring or mapped out by others.
It is this kind of problem that the Buddha sought to solve, firstly in his own life and then, after Enlightenment, in his teaching.
On this eight-week course you’ll be guided by the Buddha’s vision in an exploration of the fundamental issues of life, facing up to them, finding a way of overcoming them, and uncovering your human potential.
We begin by cultivating a ‘fit’ mind, as fitness is important for any journey. Then we permeate it with positive emotion, so that we can face into challenges on the way. Then there is ‘spiritual death’ – letting go or going beyond that which restricts us. Finally, we come to ‘spiritual rebirth’, experiencing more and more what it is like to have a ‘Buddha mind’.
Participants will receive Maitreyabandhu’s book The Journey and the Guide as part of the course.
Over the eight weeks we will cover:
- Week 1: Introducing the Journey and the Guide.
- Week 2: Supports for a ‘Fit Mind’.
- Week 3: Positive Emotion: The Stage of Action.
- Week 4: Positive Emotion: Other People.
- Week 5: Spiritual Death.
- Week 6: The View that Creates Itself.
- Week 7: Spiritual Rebirth and Imagination.
- Week 8: Shraddha: Imagination Looking Up.
When
Starts Thursday 4th September 2025, 7.30pm – 9.45pm | For eight weeksWhere
Dublin Buddhist Centre Unit 5, Liberty Corner James Joyce Street Dublin, D01 N5H6
Vajrashura started practicing yoga and learnt to meditate while in university doing a Masters in High Performance Computing. He has worked as part of the Centre Team since 2002 and in 2007 he joined the Triratna Buddhist Order.
Since ordination, he’s been one of the DBC’s main teachers, leading many courses, retreats, and events each year, and is concerned with helping people go more deeply into meditation and Buddhism.
This course is for anyone who wants to engage with a deeper understanding and practice of Buddhism.
You don’t have to be a Buddhist to gain from this course; you don’t have to be particularly ‘spiritual’. All you need is curiosity, a desire to learn, and a willingness to put what you learn into practice.
Cost
We do tiered pricing, depending on the circumstances.
€175 waged
€150 low-waged
€95 unwaged
€80 for under-25s
A €50 deposit per person of this payment is non-refundable under all circumstances.
If you wish to cancel or transfer a booking, please notify us as soon as possible on info@dublinbuddhistcentre.org
Cancellation
- If you wish to cancel your place seven days prior to the event starting, a full refund minus the deposit will be offered.
- If cancellation occurs within seven days of the event starting no refund will be available.
Transfers
- It may be possible to transfer your place to another event if we are given sufficient notice (at least four days before the event is due to start) and there are places available on the alternative event.
- If the event you wish to transfer to costs more than your original booking you will need to pay the difference at the time of transferring in order to secure your place.
- We will refund the difference if the event you wish to transfer to costs less than the original booking.
- We will only transfer a booking once and no transfer will be possible once an event has started.