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Kusaladana's Notes

Kusaladana's Notes

Core Buddhist Principles and Practice

  • On Buddhism
    • Courses
      • Basic Buddhism and Methods
        • Course Plan – Part 1
          • Week 1 Siddhartha Gautama – he was innately driven towards enlightenment and then gave us a world view and methods to help us too.
            • Body Scan
            • Mindfullness of Breathing
            • Three big ideas
          • Week2 The Gap – between stimulus and response. – A chance to develop breaking habits and be creative
            • The Gap
            • Vadanya’s greyling fish story
          • Week 3 In the Gap – Which way is up – training the heart to replace received and contractual habitual ethics with responses and actions from the opening heart
            • Metta Bhavana Meditation
          • Week 4 Ethical Principles, Precepts, to open the heart and train the mind.
            • The 5 Precepts
          • Week 5 Meditation: Hinderences and Furtherences
          • Week 6 Aspects of Wisdom: The three Lakshanas; Our hard-wired false views: Permanence, Substantiality and Satisfactoriness, and the reality : Impermanence , Insubstantiality and unsatisfactoriness.
        • Course Plan – Part 2
          • Week 7 Siddhārtha Gautama and other prodigys – Driven Like bats out of hell. In the case of Siddhartha towards enlightenment
          • Week 8 The Buddha’s Legacy and from imagination to the architype 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
          • 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
            • The Seven Fold Puja
    • Notes
      • Stepping into Buddhism
      • In the World – Developing through ethics and meditation
        • Aspects of the Buddha’s Life
        • Ethics for Humans
          • The Gap, between sensation-feeling and emotion-action response: A chance to break a habit and be creative
          • Received and Contractual Ethics
          • Positive Empathic based Ethics
          • 5 Precepts
          • Ethics Notes
        • Meditation Its purpose and its 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 – Developing through attention to inner truths with Meditation
        • In the Imagination
      • In Reality – Developing through abiding with and becoming reality in Meditation
  • Kusaladana’s Notes

Meditation

There are a lot of daily mediation classes on Zoom now suitable for beginners and for those with some experience.

At the moment I take a couple of classes. The Colchester Buddhist centre has morning and lunchtime classes. You can catch me most Mondays at at 07:00 and 13:00.

https://thebuddhistcentre.com/text/mindfulness-breathing

and

https://thebuddhistcentre.com/text/loving-kindness-meditation

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