Purpose
The Foundation Programme is a unique structured study programme that enables us to gain deeper understanding and experience of Buddhist teachings and to develop a regular meditation practice.
Through regular teachings, meditation, systematic study and group discussion, the Foundation Programme offers deep support for your spiritual life.
This book offers us deep insight into our mind and shows how an understanding of its nature and functions can be used practically in everyday experience to improve our lives.
Part 1 is a practical guide to developing and maintaining a happy and controlled mind – showing how to recognize and abandon states of mind that harm us, and to replace them with peaceful and beneficial ones.
Part 2 describes different types of mind in detail, revealing the depth and profundity of the Buddhist understanding of the mind. It concludes with a detailed explanation of meditation, showing how by controlling and transforming our mind we can attain a lasting state of peace and joy, regardless of external conditions.
Benefits of studying this book
We will understand the relationship between our mind and its external objects. If we understand that objects depend upon the subjective mind we can change the way objects appear to us by changing our own mind. Gradually we shall gain the ability to control our mind and in this way solve all our problems.
The Class
The class is held on Saturdays from 10am to 12pm.
Prior to class, students study an assigned portion of the text, usually a few pages long, and try to memorize the essential points. Class begins with chanted prayers and guided meditation. The teacher then reads the assigned section from the book while giving commentary to the text. The students then discuss the material. The teacher and students conclude by deciding what to meditate on in the next class and how to practice during the coming week.
Further information and Enrolment
If you are interested in joining the Foundation Programme, please contact us for further details:
email meditateinpenangEPC@gmail.com
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