CULTIVATING MINDFULNESS—AN INTRODUCTION TO SHAMATHA PRACTICE with Glen Svensson
Schedule
Sat Dec 09 2023 at 10:00 am to 04:00 pm
Location
Nepali Ghar Hotel | Kathmandu, BA
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Cultivating Mindfulness (An Introduction to Shamatha Practice)“Few things affect our lives more than our faculty of attention. If we can't focus our attention – due to either agitation or dullness – we can't do anything well. We can't study, listen, converse with others, work, play, or even sleep well when our attention is impaired. And for many of us, our attention is impaired much of the time.” Alan Wallace
During this one day event we will learn how to develop and enhance our attention skills, how to strengthen our faculty of mindfulness. Within Buddhism this training is often referred to as shamatha practice – the practice of developing a calm, clear and focussed mind. This practice is essential if we are to subdue and heal our agitated and unruly mind, to become masters of our own mind.
During the four sessions we will be focussing on mindfulness of breathing, a technique that has been found to be very effective in the modern world. Mindfulness of breathing means settling your awareness on the sensations of the breath, continually returning your attention there whenever your mind wanders.
With regard to this training we will also be looking at how to set up a good meditation posture, what faults can arise during the meditation and how we can overcome them, what stages we progress through in this practice and how we can integrate this practice into daily life.
Each session will include instructions on the practice, guided meditations and an opportunity to ask questions.
Schedule:
10:00 - 11:00 Session 1 – Introduction to Shamatha practice
11:30 – 12:30 Session 2 – Overcoming faults
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:30 Session 3 – Stages of progress
15:00 – 16:00 Session 4 – Integrating into daily life
Recommended reading
The Attention Revolution – B. Alan Wallace
About Glen:
Glen has been a student and practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism since 1995 and graduated from the seven-year Masters Program in Advanced Buddhist Studies of Sutra and Tantra at Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa (Pomaia, Italy) in 2004.
Since 2005 he has taught and led meditation retreats in India, Europe, North America and Australia with a clear and structured teaching style emphasizing the integration of philosophical view, meditation and daily life conduct.
Suggested Donation:
NRS 1,500 (includes morning and afternoon refreshments, excludes lunch)
Registration:
Please register in advance:
Facebook Messenger: Himalayan Buddhist Meditation Center
Email: [email protected]
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