Program Description:
Meditation practice cultivates inner peace, clarity, concentration and joy. In order to experience these lovely qualities, we must overcome the challenges of agitation, dullness, obsessive thinking, physical pain, difficult emotions, and reactivity. In this program we will identify, investigate, and learn to skillfully overcome obstacles to concentration and insight.
Through inquiry into how the mind functions we will recognize the presence, absence, and causal conditions for hindrances, and transform habitual patterns that might obstruct wholesome states. Once the obstacles have been understood and overcome, the path to deep and stable states of concentration will be clear, and mindfulness of the processes of mind and body will be firmly established.
What to expect
This online program includes 6 content modules with:
recorded lectures
reading assignments
sutta study
guided meditations
peer led discussion forums
five optional online conferences with Shaila Catherine via Zoom
Prerequisites:
Participants are expected to have an established mindfulness-based meditation practice.
This program is hosted on Zoom and closed captions are available. You can check the time of the group sessions in your timezone here: https://www.worldtimebuddy.com. The schedule of Zoom meetings for this program (shown in US Eastern Time) is as follows:
Optional Meeting Time: Every other Sunday (12:00-2:00 PM ET)
Optional Meeting Dates: April 21, May 3, May 19, June 2, June 16
Please note that sessions will be recorded and made available to participants within 48 hours of each session for all programs except weekend retreats. For weekend retreats, all recordings will be made available within 48 hours of the final session. Recordings remain available for two weeks from the program end date with the exception of one-time events, available indefinitely on our website.
Cancellation Policy:
Registration fees for all online programs are nonrefundable after the program start date. Cancellations prior to the program start date incur a $25 cancellation fee. Application-based and online path programs incur a $50 cancellation fee in 2023 and a $100 cancellation fee beginning 2024.
DEI:
As we work to become a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive community, we invite feedback/suggestions you may have regarding ways that we can make participation in the program more accessible and welcoming. Please email us at contact@buddhistinquiry.org.
