Enter Into Mindfulness: Filling Your Life with Presence (14 One-Hour Sessions)
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Email meditatewithranga@gmail.com if you want us to prioritize this class!
Learn how to fill your life with presence. The art of mindfulness practice can bring an aliveness and electricity to life. It can make sights appear more vivid and life feel more precious. With it, we can become skillful in our relationships, goals, and meditation practice. Without it, we run the risks of plaguing our relationships with bouts of anger and doubt, of failing to adhere to the discipline required to attain goals, and of losing balance in our meditation practice.
Mindfulness has become a buzzword. While this quality of mind is indeed worthy of all this new attention, its meaning and particularly how to develop it are more misunderstood now than ever before. Mindfulness is not a standalone factor that can or should be developed without an understanding of its adjacent and related mental elements, such as Panoramic Awareness (Sati Sampajanna), Right Effort (Samma Vayamo), Right Harmony (Samma Samadhi) and Emptiness (Sunyata). In other words, in order to develop mindfulness appropriately, we have to learn about its place on the Path to peace and how it fits into a chain of related mental qualities that a meditator should develop.
Schedule:
Day 1: Benefits of Mindfulness: We’ll explore the benefits of developing awareness and get everyone amped up to learn about this amazing capacity of mind!
Day 2: Redefining Mindfulness: On day 2, we will focus on common misunderstandings of mindfulness and begin to redefine it. My aim is to put an end to these misconceptions so the rest of the course can build on this foundation of knowledge.
Day 3: Guided Meditation Practice: Practice is always critical! We’ll pause new teachings every couple of days to dive into practice and make sure the group is developing an understanding of mindfulness based on direct experience, rather than philosophy or theory.
Day 4: Right Effort & The Simile of the City: This is a big one! The Buddha once spoke of the mind as a city or kingdom, with mindfulness as the guardians of the city gates! This beautiful simile really helps one understand what mindfulness is all about. You can expect some Game of Throne references as well!
Day 5: Right Harmony (Samma Samadhi): Samadhi is one of the deepest pleasures a human being can experience. Need I say more?
Day 6: Guided Meditation Practice: Let’s take some time to cultivate Right Effort and perhaps get a glimpse of Samadhi!
Day 7: Emptiness (Sunyata): This is the crown jewel of all philosophies. It’s THE thing to realize. We will explore how an understanding of Emptiness can supercharge mindfulness and open a sense of wonder.
Day 8: Guided Meditation Practice: More practice :)
Day 9: Panoramic Awareness (Sati Sampajanna): Let’s talk about presence. Just being able to feel one’s presence can be incredibly blissful.
Day 10: Ajahn Sumedho’s radical view of mindfulness: We’ll spend a day on how this master defines mindfulness–I bet this will open up some new pathways and ways of looking for the group!
Day 11: Guided Meditation Practice: This course isn’t for Allen Iverson (he hates practice).
Day 12: Exploring mindfulness in the Pali canon: Let’s see what we can learn about mindfulness from one of the oldest treasure troves of wisdom available.
Day 13: Exploring mindfulness in the Tibetan Buddhist teachings: We’ll build on what we learned on day 12 with a different approach, born of an incredibly cool culture and tradition.
Day 14: Practice and Closing Thoughts: I will set you up for success with mindfulness tactics to bring to your everyday life.
Other Features:
Dedicated Discord channel & community chat for Q&A
Coming Soon!
Email meditatewithranga@gmail.com if you want us to prioritize this class!
Learn how to fill your life with presence. The art of mindfulness practice can bring an aliveness and electricity to life. It can make sights appear more vivid and life feel more precious. With it, we can become skillful in our relationships, goals, and meditation practice. Without it, we run the risks of plaguing our relationships with bouts of anger and doubt, of failing to adhere to the discipline required to attain goals, and of losing balance in our meditation practice.
Mindfulness has become a buzzword. While this quality of mind is indeed worthy of all this new attention, its meaning and particularly how to develop it are more misunderstood now than ever before. Mindfulness is not a standalone factor that can or should be developed without an understanding of its adjacent and related mental elements, such as Panoramic Awareness (Sati Sampajanna), Right Effort (Samma Vayamo), Right Harmony (Samma Samadhi) and Emptiness (Sunyata). In other words, in order to develop mindfulness appropriately, we have to learn about its place on the Path to peace and how it fits into a chain of related mental qualities that a meditator should develop.
Schedule:
Day 1: Benefits of Mindfulness: We’ll explore the benefits of developing awareness and get everyone amped up to learn about this amazing capacity of mind!
Day 2: Redefining Mindfulness: On day 2, we will focus on common misunderstandings of mindfulness and begin to redefine it. My aim is to put an end to these misconceptions so the rest of the course can build on this foundation of knowledge.
Day 3: Guided Meditation Practice: Practice is always critical! We’ll pause new teachings every couple of days to dive into practice and make sure the group is developing an understanding of mindfulness based on direct experience, rather than philosophy or theory.
Day 4: Right Effort & The Simile of the City: This is a big one! The Buddha once spoke of the mind as a city or kingdom, with mindfulness as the guardians of the city gates! This beautiful simile really helps one understand what mindfulness is all about. You can expect some Game of Throne references as well!
Day 5: Right Harmony (Samma Samadhi): Samadhi is one of the deepest pleasures a human being can experience. Need I say more?
Day 6: Guided Meditation Practice: Let’s take some time to cultivate Right Effort and perhaps get a glimpse of Samadhi!
Day 7: Emptiness (Sunyata): This is the crown jewel of all philosophies. It’s THE thing to realize. We will explore how an understanding of Emptiness can supercharge mindfulness and open a sense of wonder.
Day 8: Guided Meditation Practice: More practice :)
Day 9: Panoramic Awareness (Sati Sampajanna): Let’s talk about presence. Just being able to feel one’s presence can be incredibly blissful.
Day 10: Ajahn Sumedho’s radical view of mindfulness: We’ll spend a day on how this master defines mindfulness–I bet this will open up some new pathways and ways of looking for the group!
Day 11: Guided Meditation Practice: This course isn’t for Allen Iverson (he hates practice).
Day 12: Exploring mindfulness in the Pali canon: Let’s see what we can learn about mindfulness from one of the oldest treasure troves of wisdom available.
Day 13: Exploring mindfulness in the Tibetan Buddhist teachings: We’ll build on what we learned on day 12 with a different approach, born of an incredibly cool culture and tradition.
Day 14: Practice and Closing Thoughts: I will set you up for success with mindfulness tactics to bring to your everyday life.
Other Features:
Dedicated Discord channel & community chat for Q&A
Coming Soon!
Email meditatewithranga@gmail.com if you want us to prioritize this class!
Learn how to fill your life with presence. The art of mindfulness practice can bring an aliveness and electricity to life. It can make sights appear more vivid and life feel more precious. With it, we can become skillful in our relationships, goals, and meditation practice. Without it, we run the risks of plaguing our relationships with bouts of anger and doubt, of failing to adhere to the discipline required to attain goals, and of losing balance in our meditation practice.
Mindfulness has become a buzzword. While this quality of mind is indeed worthy of all this new attention, its meaning and particularly how to develop it are more misunderstood now than ever before. Mindfulness is not a standalone factor that can or should be developed without an understanding of its adjacent and related mental elements, such as Panoramic Awareness (Sati Sampajanna), Right Effort (Samma Vayamo), Right Harmony (Samma Samadhi) and Emptiness (Sunyata). In other words, in order to develop mindfulness appropriately, we have to learn about its place on the Path to peace and how it fits into a chain of related mental qualities that a meditator should develop.
Schedule:
Day 1: Benefits of Mindfulness: We’ll explore the benefits of developing awareness and get everyone amped up to learn about this amazing capacity of mind!
Day 2: Redefining Mindfulness: On day 2, we will focus on common misunderstandings of mindfulness and begin to redefine it. My aim is to put an end to these misconceptions so the rest of the course can build on this foundation of knowledge.
Day 3: Guided Meditation Practice: Practice is always critical! We’ll pause new teachings every couple of days to dive into practice and make sure the group is developing an understanding of mindfulness based on direct experience, rather than philosophy or theory.
Day 4: Right Effort & The Simile of the City: This is a big one! The Buddha once spoke of the mind as a city or kingdom, with mindfulness as the guardians of the city gates! This beautiful simile really helps one understand what mindfulness is all about. You can expect some Game of Throne references as well!
Day 5: Right Harmony (Samma Samadhi): Samadhi is one of the deepest pleasures a human being can experience. Need I say more?
Day 6: Guided Meditation Practice: Let’s take some time to cultivate Right Effort and perhaps get a glimpse of Samadhi!
Day 7: Emptiness (Sunyata): This is the crown jewel of all philosophies. It’s THE thing to realize. We will explore how an understanding of Emptiness can supercharge mindfulness and open a sense of wonder.
Day 8: Guided Meditation Practice: More practice :)
Day 9: Panoramic Awareness (Sati Sampajanna): Let’s talk about presence. Just being able to feel one’s presence can be incredibly blissful.
Day 10: Ajahn Sumedho’s radical view of mindfulness: We’ll spend a day on how this master defines mindfulness–I bet this will open up some new pathways and ways of looking for the group!
Day 11: Guided Meditation Practice: This course isn’t for Allen Iverson (he hates practice).
Day 12: Exploring mindfulness in the Pali canon: Let’s see what we can learn about mindfulness from one of the oldest treasure troves of wisdom available.
Day 13: Exploring mindfulness in the Tibetan Buddhist teachings: We’ll build on what we learned on day 12 with a different approach, born of an incredibly cool culture and tradition.
Day 14: Practice and Closing Thoughts: I will set you up for success with mindfulness tactics to bring to your everyday life.
Other Features:
Dedicated Discord channel & community chat for Q&A