
Buddhist Studies
Spring 2025:
Three Natures
Wednesdays
7:00-9:00 P.M.
Apr 2 – May 21 (8 sessions)
Taught by Genpo Michael O'Neal, with Joen O'Neal
“[The teaching of three natures] is intended to crack through every hardened way of seeing things the mind and heart can make. It is to turn the mundane into the wondrous, the tiny into the vast, the infinite into the immediate, the known into the inconceivable, and anguish into joy, peace, and compassion.”
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“The three natures provide an empowering model for understanding how we can practice freedom from harmful personal and family patterns, addiction, trauma, and systems of oppression; they show a path to personal and communal healing. They affirm agency…while relentlessly challenging tendencies to become prejudiced or stagnant.”
Ben Connelly
Vasubandhu's "Three Natures"
A Practitioner's Guide for Liberation

In This Class...

This class examines the three natures, or three aspects of how we can experience our world— imaginary, dependent, and absolute—as described by the great fourth-century Buddhist teacher Vasubandhu. This teaching presents a way of taking care of our lives that can transform suffering in ourselves and in our communities.
Genpo Michael O'Neal & Joen O'Neal​
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Wednesdays
7:00-9:00 P.M.
Apr 2 – May 21 (eight sessions)
$185 (members $165) (includes course materials)
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Early registration is encouraged.
Member rates apply to members of all local Buddhist centers.
​​Reduced fees are offered as needed; please contact the Center at (612) 781-7640.