Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course
Week 4: An overview of the aggregates of perception, mental formations, and consciousness, plus a brief introduction to the Insight Dialogue guideline of Attune to Emergence
Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course
Week 3: Investigating the three qualities of feeling-tone / vedana, how they can condition the three afflictive energies of greed, hatred and delusion, and how these can form into the three personality types
After clarifying further the fundamental practices of our retreat, particularly the three ways of seeing leading to liberating insight, we examine the third way of seeing—seeing anatta (or not-self). We focus less on understanding this way of seeing conceptually, and more on identifying two main ways of practicing—(1) opening to being mindful of the flow of experience, increasingly with a “thinned out” self or lack of self, and (2) noticing and being mindful of when there is a “thick” sense of self.
Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course
Week 2: guided dyad (pairs) practice, exploring physical sensations in the body (three minutes each), then an example of a time when you became aware of the body's impermanent, unreliable and not-self nature
Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course
Week 2: Dukkha as the second of the three universal characteristics; its relationship to the five "clinging-aggregates" and ways that we commonly cling to or identify with the body
Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course
Week 2: A 15 minute guided meditation focus on mindfulness of the body and physical sensations
Three fruits of maranasati practice are discussed: 1) Preparing for our moment of death with fearlessness and peace. Topics of Near Death Experiences (NDEs) and rebirth are presented with a don't know mind. 2) Living THIS limited, precious life fully, with gratitude, forgiveness, generosity and letting go. 3) Awakening, liberation, nibbana -- Maranasati is a practice towards liberation, arising insights into the three marks of existence (anicca, dukkha, anatta).
Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course
Week 1: A short introduction to anatta or not-self
Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course
Week 1: A brief overview of the three universal characteristics of anicca / impermanence, dukkha / unsatisfactoriness, and anatta / not-self
Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course
A 15 minute guided meditation as preparation to start the course
