The Power of Mind: Kindness, Clarity & Insight
October 2 @ 7:00 pm - 8:45 pm
This brand new weekly course presents the Mahayana Seven Points of Mind Training. These points lay out a path of formal meditation practice, along with guidelines for extending that practice into everyday life.
These teachings are precious and unique in presenting the entire depth and breadth of the Buddha’s Mahayana teachings succinctly and practically. Mahayana mind training offers an approach to life that is straightforward, grounded in sanity, kindness, and compassion. Yet it also offers a vision that completely transcends our ordinary way of viewing ourselves and others, with an all-encompassing vision of enlightenment.
At the heart of this vision of enlightenment is the view that our innate, fundamental identity is vast, luminous and utterly awake. The Mahayana teachings refer to this as our enlightened heart, or bodhicitta. Enlightenment is nothing other than who we really are. But for most of us, our true nature is like a hidden treasure, concealed behind layers of mental activity and preoccupation.
Mahayana mind training helps us give expression to our enlightened heart in everything we think, say and do. The training particularly focuses on our relationships, which are like a mirror that shows us exactly where we are at. Our relationships also provide us with a way to dissolve the limitations that prevent the vastness of our true nature from fully manifesting.
Founded on a practice lineage that has been actively practised for hundreds of years, these teachings are completely relevant to the challenges posed by our modern, globalised life. This course will include topics like:
- finding meaning in our lives, and connectedness with our world
- overcoming loneliness and isolation
- how to thrive in the face of difficulties
- how to contribute to creating a more sustainable, kind, and compassionate world
The course will consist of seven classes on Wednesday evenings, plus two extended practice based classes where we gather for more in-depth mind training meditation practice.
🗓️ 7 weekly classes: 25 September – 13 November 2024 (course break on Wednesday 9 October)
⏰ 7:00-8:45pm AEST (Start time 11:00am CEST, 5:00am US East Coast)
* as this will be taught from Brisbane, times in other locations will change once summer time begins in some states in the second week of October. Please use this time zone calculator for full details
Practice days on Saturday 19 October and Sunday 10 November, 9:30am to 3:30pm AEST (Start time 10:30 AEDT, 1:30am CEST, 7:30pm US East Coast)
📍Online via Zoom and in person at Rigpa Brisbane, 2/19 Enoggera Tce, Red Hill.
💰full $200, concession $100, free for Rigpa paying subscribers (registration is still required, just close the payment page that comes up after registration.)
