Thursdays: October 17, 24, 31 & November 7, 2024
6.00 – 7.15 PM Sydney Daylight Saving Time (new students please attend all sessions)
Vipassana (Insight) meditation is the development of understanding or “insight” through the cultivation of mindfulness. Mindfulness is observing with clarity. As mindfulness is practiced it brings stillness and composure, reducing the confusion inherent in our typically reactive relationship with life experiences. Building skill in mindfulness reduces judgement and enhances responsiveness, resilience, integrity and discernment. Ultimately, insight meditation develops the art or skill of living intelligently, with compassion.
The course is suitable for those with previous experience in meditation as well as new students. Sessions include periods of instruction and individual guidance as well as silent meditation practice and opportunity for discussion and questions. The course is structured such that each session builds on the understanding of the previous week.
Venue: Online via Zoom
Course cost: Dana
Dana: there is no set or suggested fee for the course, it is offered as Dana. Dana means generosity, the practice of giving without holding back or expecting any return. Giving liberates through the lessening of attachment and the deepening of kindness. Teachers offer teaching as a gift and students offer the gift of support to teachers. Dana therefore is a subtle and sophisticated interchange between student and teacher. It requires sensitivity, intent and awareness (for example of how the responsibility for costs and expenses associated with the provision of teaching is met). Students have an opportunity to nurture their practice of giving by offering financial support rather than pay any set or suggested amount.
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