Join us for a practical, three-session course exploring how mindfulness helps us meet life with greater steadiness, clarity, and compassion. Drawing from contemplative wisdom and accessible science, participants will learn how to work skillfully with emotional reactivity and cultivate resilience, mental stability, and a more peaceful mind.
Class 1: Foundations of Mindfulness and Inner Stability
Topics include defining the worldview of mindfulness & meditation, right view, the importance of mindful breathing/breathwork, cultivating equanimity, and Metta (loving-kindness) practice.
Class 2: Understanding Reactivity and Building Resilience
Topics include The Two Arrows teaching on pain vs added suffering (from the Sallatha Sutta), recognizing habits and different levels of perturbation, listening to the body as an early warning system, the role of continued practice (viriya paramita).
Class 3: Applied Practice In Action
Topics include right action, accepting, embodying, transforming: kshanti paramita, understanding impermanence, the social aspect of a steady mind, practical steps for building a daily meditation practice, working with anger, comfort with discomfort, the teaching of The Three Difficulties, and the gift of beginning again.
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