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Download this overview of the course

The resources include:

• Notes for the course leader (including learning objectives, guide lines for input and exercises, background information, suggestions for home practice)
• Exercises, and handouts
• Overview of the course
• An overview of the whole of life’s dynamics in symbolic form.
• The wheel of life – knowing our realm
• The wheel of life – karma and rebirth
• The wheel of life – the chain of conditioning, “staying in the gap”
• The spiral path – to Insight and beyond
• The mandala of the five Buddhas – Akshobya and Amitabha
• The mandala of
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Here you can download notes for six talks/guided discussions introducing the Buddha, provided by Achala from Wellington, New Zealand.

1. Approaching the Buddha: His youth; the ‘Four Sights’ and the Going Forth; Enlightenment and the Nature of the Buddha; faith in the Buddha.
    
2. The Buddha’s Victories: Leaving the family/group; overcoming complacency and ambition; facing existential fear; being alone; Mara.
    
3. Stories from the Buddha’s Life: The first teaching; a case of dysentery; Kisagotami; Devadatta; meeting with Bharadvaja; mediating between the Koliyans and
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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...