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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
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