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Basic Buddhism & Methods Summer 22
Key Ideas in Basic the Buddhism and Methods Course
Course Plan – Part 1
Week 1 In the footsteps of Siddhartha
Body Scan
Mindfullness of Breathing
Three big ideas
Media for week 1
Week2 How we respond with habits and ‘The Gap’
The Gap
Vadanya’s greyling fish story
Week 3 Changing habits, becoming creative
Metta Bhavana Meditation
Week 4 Train the mind and open the heart
The 5 Precepts
Week 5 Supports and hinderences in meditation
Week 6 Right and Wrong Views, and their consequences
Course Plan – Part 2
Week 7 Siddhārtha Gautama and other prodigys – People driven by creativity and the emergence of the Dharma
Week 8 The Buddha’s Legacy. From imagination to the archetype Shakyamuni
Week 9 The Dharma: Teachings from the life of the Buddha. Vision and Transformation
Week 10 Towards Deepest Meaning in the Dharma: The Heart Sutra
The Heart Sutra
THE SUTRA ON AMITĀYUS BUDDHA
Week 11 The Sangha: The spiritual community and ‘mutual support’
Week 12 True meaning and truth in the realm of the imagination: The Arya Sangha and the Bodhisattvas
On Kusaladana
Notes
Connecting with Buddhism
In the World – Ethics and Meditation
Aspects of the Buddha’s Life
Ethics for Humans
The Gap. A chance to break a habit and be creative
Received and Contractual Ethics
Positive Empathic based Ethics
5 Precepts
Ethics Notes
Meditation Its purpose, ways and means
Mindfullness of Breathing
Metta Bhavana
The Three Fold Path, Hindrances and Balance
A System of Practise
Wisdom Conceived in Thought
In the Mind – Attention to inner truths with Meditation
In the Imagination
In Reality – Abiding with and becoming reality
Ritual in Buddhism
The Seven Fold Puja
Getting into it more
Media for week 6
On the three Marks and Right and Wrong Views
Metta: We All Breath
