Led By: Padmadharini & Ananta
Monday Evenings
6:30 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. EDT
June 24th - July 29th, 2024
Online via Zoom
Course Description:
The Buddha emphasized that happiness is found through understanding the mind rather than getting caught up in sensory experience. This simple yet radical shift is key to a relaxed and uncontrived way of practicing.
This course on mindfulness will be a deep dive into the practice of exploring our experience as it happens in this relaxed, natural, and uncontrived way.
Drawing on Vajradevi’s work Uncontrived Mindfulness, which is inspired by the Burmese teacher U Tejaniya’s teachings on satipatthana meditation, the emphasis will be on cultivating wisdom, using the tools of attention, curiosity, and discernment to recognize and see through the delusion that causes our suffering.
You might find it helpful to read along with the course using Vajradevi’s book “Uncontrived Mindfulness”. You can find it here in eBook format and here in printed format (sent through the mail) from Windhorse Publications.
Agenda:
Arriving Meditation
Review of previous material
Small group discussion
Review of new material
Large group discussion
Meditation
Home practice review
About the Leaders:
Padmadharini is a courageous and dedicated meditation practitioner. She has attended around 3 years of cumulative meditation retreats, during which she has tried out various approaches to insight. She is trained and educated in modalities that support going deeper in meditation. This includes her training as a Chaplain, training as a coach, training in mindfulness courses and in focusing and somatic work.
Ananta has practiced within the Triratna Buddhist Community for 25 years. He has spent over three years on retreat. He was Ordained in 2007 and is a leading teacher of Triratna New York and of the Triratna US & Canada Men’s ordination training team.
He is the CEO of Karuna USA, a Buddhist-inspired international nonprofit tackling poverty and discrimination in South Asia, and formerly led global youth empowerment initiatives with the United Nations. He is a certified Mindfulness teacher with Brown University.
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