What is missing in my Life?
Christopher Titmuss
9:30 am - 4:30 pm Saturday 19 January 2019
Dharma Primary School, Brighton
Our mind can easily get caught up in what is missing in our life - love, a role, peace of mind, children, success, intimacy, fulfilment and more.
We live a life torn between what is present and what is absent.
The duality of presence and absence generates stress, feelings of failure and time pressure.
There are other ways to view the circumstances of our existence.
In this one-day workshop, we explore these issues using mindfulness, meditation and sharing of experiences.
The day will include a talk on the theme, inquiry and questions and answers.
The Dharma Primary School
149 Ladies' Mile Road,
Patcham, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 8TB,
England
What is missing in my Life?
Christopher Titmuss
9:30 am - 4:30 pm Saturday 19 January 2019
Dharma Primary School, Brighton
Our mind can easily get caught up in what is missing in our life - love, a role, peace of mind, children, success, intimacy, fulfilment and more.
We live a life torn between what is present and what is absent.
The duality of presence and absence generates stress, feelings of failure and time pressure.
There are other ways to view the circumstances of our existence.
In this one-day workshop, we explore these issues using mindfulness, meditation and sharing of experiences.
The day will include a talk on the theme, inquiry and questions and answers.
The Dharma Primary School
149 Ladies' Mile Road,
Patcham, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 8TB,
England
Insight Meditation
(Vipassana)
Themes for Reflection
THREE JEWELS
Going for Refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha.
FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS
Suffering, Causes and Conditions, Resolution, Way to Resolution .
NOBLE EIGHTFOLD PATH
Right Understanding (Right View), right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right meditative concentration.
FOUR APPLICATIONS OF MINDFULNESS
Body, Feelings, States of Mind, Dharma
FIVE HINDRANCES
The blind pursuit of pleasure, negativity/anger, boredom/apathy, restlessness/anxiety, doubt/fear.
FIVE AGGREGATES
(Categories) of a human being: Body, feelings, perceptions, thoughts/mental formations, consciousness.
THREE CHARACTERISTICS or MARKS
Impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, non-self (impersonal)
FIVE-FOLD TRAINING
Ethics, meditative concentration, wisdom, (transformative) knowledge and knowing liberation
SEVEN FACTORS OF ENLIGHTENMENT
Mindfulness, inquiry, happiness, calmness, energy, meditative concentration, equanimity
Dharma practices explore sukha (happiness) as much as dukkha (suffering). Trust in and the application of the wholesome prevails, so the unwholesome fades. (AN V 6). Dharma offers a huge range of practices to cultivate the wholesome, so the unhealthy lose their foothold in consciousness.
In alphabetical order:
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appreciative joy
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being in nature
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community
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compassion
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creativity
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deep meditative absorptions
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formless realms of experience
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friendship
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generosity
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letting go
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love
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loving kindness
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meditation
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mystical experiences
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non-attachment
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passion
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reflection
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relationships
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seeing and knowing profound awakening
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service
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sharing
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transcendental realisations