with Poep Sa Frank Jude Boccio

Feb 8th through April 4th, 2012 (No meeting on March 28th) 

Wednesdays 7:00 - 8:00 pm
@ yo | downtown (245 E. Congress St.)
Rate: $50 for all 8 weeks or $9/class drop-in.

The Prajna-paramita Heart Sutra is considered by many Buddhist traditions (including Zen and Tibetan Buddhism) as the essence of Buddhist teaching and philosopy. It is chanted or recited daily in Buddhist practice communities throughout the world. The text has been studied and discussed for 2,000 years, beginning in India, and then spreading to China, Korea, Vietnam, Tibet and Japan, before being "discovered" by the West just over a century ago.

The Heart Sutra is the "heart" or "core" of a huge body of texts known as the Prajna-paramita or "Perfection of Wisdom Sutras." In it's single page of five short paragraphs, is distilled the liberating insight of the Buddha, leading to a life of freedom and bliss.

Join Poep Sa Frank Jude in an exploration of this seminal sutra in order to learn and explore the deepest wisdom of the Buddha for yourself!

To pre-register, contact via phone or email: 520.322.6142 or registration@yogaoasis.com or stop by any of the yo | studios.

About Poep Sa Frank Jude Boccio:

My interest in Buddhism dates to high school, reading books by Christmas Humphreys and Alan Watts after my sister died in 1972. It wasn't until 1977, however, with my first marriage disintegrating, that I took my first yoga class. Though we were told that asana practice was to prepare the body for meditation, we never got to meditate in class! One day, browsing in a bookstore, a book fell from an upper shelf striking me in the head. It was Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki, and it was all the prompting needed to get myself to the zendo! In 1992 I began practicing with the Vietnamese Zen Master, Thich Nhat Hanh. In 1995 I took refuge and precepts with him, and received certification as a yoga teacher. In 1997 I was ordained into the Order of Interbeing. 

In 2000 I began study with the Korean Zen Master, Samu Sunim, who ordained me as a Poep Sa (Dharma Teacher) on July 4, 2007. Since my book, Mindfulness Yoga: The Awakened Union of Breath, Body and Mind, was published in 2004, I have had the great fortune to travel, sharing teachings and practices that have literally saved my life! 

Happily, life has brought me to Tucson where I now make my home with my wife Monica, our daughter Giovanna, two cats and two chickens. I've founded the Tucson Mindfulness Practice Community, and feel delighted to be offered the opportunity to share meditation and Dharma instruction through YogaOasis' Mind Lab meditation class established by Will Duncan. I offer deep gratitude and appreciation to all my teachers, most especially Thich Nhat Hanh, Samu Sunim, Swami Satchidanda, John Friend, David Swenson and Beryl Bender Birch. I can be reached at: frankjude@mindfulnessyoga.net