Tag: meditation

This six-week course was provided by Sagaraghosha from the Cambridge Buddhist Centre, UK.

Week 1:

• Guide line for the teacher (Outlook over the course; setting up and preparing; ‘useful emotions’; exploring values; general and specific intentions
• Handout 1 on preparing for meditation
• Handout 2 (main points from class + meditation diary 1)

Week 2:

• Guide line for the teacher (review; reviewing metta bhavana; balancing effort; trying this out with mindfulness of breathing)
• Diary 2: Balancing active and receptive effort

Week 3:

• Guide line for the teacher (review; focus and broadness)
• Diary 3: Focus and broadness

Week 4:

• Guide line for the teacher
• Handout ‘Exploring experience’ (positive and negative aspects [hindrances
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Introducing Metta Bhavana is a highly-polished 32-page guide to the Metta Bhavana developed by Ruchiraketu in 2004. He introduces it thus:

Introduction
The ideas given in Introducing Metta Bhavana are to give practical tips for designing experiential exercises while introducing Metta Bhavana to newcomers. I hope they will stimulate more experimentation with an experiential approach to learning.

They are not a complete course in themselves but are provided to supplement whatever teaching you might normally do. Adapt them to suit your own style and purposes. They...

This four-week course was developed by Vajramati for use with the New York City Sangha.

This is a six-week foundation course based on a practice diary. This course aims to support people in establishing a meditation practice, breaking down teaching into day-by-day experiential exercises and reviewing how the meditation is going. The materials include a meditation diary, handouts with reminders of the practice, and Teachers Notes. Developed by Maitreyabandhu and peer-reviewed by the Lighting the Flame Group.

Notes on the Practice Diary

This post introduces the context for using the Diary in a course you are leading.

1. Aims
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