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)
The Meditation Practice
Samadhi is the Pali word for meditative concentration. The texts of the Buddha define samadhi in two ways:
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The wholesome mind steadily fixed on an object
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The unification of mind.
A firm focus on a single object means that mental hindrances, stress or excessive thought does not disturb the mind. Samadhi offers the experience of non-distraction and thus contributes to the attainment of calm.
Happiness functions as an approximate condition for samadhi and happiness emerges as an outcome of samadhi. Samadhi develops through the application of:
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interest from wake up to sleep
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patience with the process
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dissolving of stress in mind and body
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the motivation to develop samadhi,
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wise instructions of the meditation teacher