Jhanas and Dependent Origination

Instructor(s): Leigh Brasington

Program Description:

Paticca-samuppada and jhāna are dependent co-origination and the meditative absorptions. This program combines the two main elements of the Buddha’s model of liberation: cultivating the meditative absorptions (jhānas), which lead to calm clarity, along with insight into the dependent co-origination (paticca-samuppada) of phenomena. We will look at selected texts from the Pali suttas, including the famous Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, to highlight both meditation practice and the teachings of dependent co-origination.

Prerequisites:

This program is for those who have completed at least two one-week or longer silent vipassana retreats.

About the Instructor(s):
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  Leigh Brasington

  Leigh Brasington has been practicing meditation since 1985 and is the senior American student of the late Ven. Ayya Khema. Leigh began assisting Ven. Ayya Khemma in 1994, and began teaching retreats on his own in 1997. He is also authorized to teach by Jack Kornfield. Leigh has taught the jhanas, along with multiple insight practices, at well over one hundred residential retreats throughout the United States and Europe. He is the author of the books Right Concentration: A Practical Guide to the Jhanas and Dependent Origination and Emptiness: Streams Of Dependently Arising Processes Interacting.