Session outlines continued:
14 Feb 10:
Practice in session: focus on appearances
Find a fist-sized rock and hold it in your hand throughout
Shamatha #1: any favorite form (8:00)
Shamatha #2: Clarifying p23 "Tightening" (4:00)
Shamatha #3: Clarifying p25 "Loosening" (4:00)
Shamatha #4: (7) "Just Sit" (8:00)
Together read Bokar Rinpoche's pointing out instructions: section 3
Notice the beautiful logic of the core Kagyu teaching:
Appearances Are Mind. Mind Is Empty.
Emptiness Is Natural Presence. Natural Presence Is Self-Liberated
Vipashyana #1: (5:00): From ACI: Kedrup Je's Four-Part Meditation on Emptiness applied to rock
Vipashyana #2 (5:00): From ACI: Rock Meditation on same object
Vipashyana #3 (8:00): Exploring Thoughts: (7) "Investigating Appearances"
21 Feb 10:
Shamatha #1: any favorite form (8:00)
Shamatha #2: Clarifying p23 "Tightening" (4:00)
Shamatha #3: (7) "Just Sit" (8:00)
Vipashyana #1: Online Ch.3, (8) Investigating the Perceiver of Appearances (8:00)
Vipashyana #2: ACI: Dropping the Object (pp 5-7) (8:00)
Vipashyana #3: Combine #1 and #2 during walking meditation in the warm spring sun
28 Feb 10:
Preparation:
- Clarifying: read 34-47
- Crystal: pp 72-91
Practice in session: focus on summing up shamatha and vipashyana
Shamatha #1: any favorite form (8:00)
Shamatha #2: Clarifying p23 "Tightening" (4:00)
Shamatha #3: Clarifying p25 "Loosening" (4:00)
Shamatha #4: (7) "Just Sit" (8:00)
Vipashyana 1: Read together: Clarifying 32-33, Sit with this (8:00)
Vipashyana 2: Read together: Clarifying 34-35, Sit with this (8:00)
Vipashyana 3: Read together: Clarifying 36-37, Sit with this (8:00)
Vipashyana 4: Read together: Clarifying 37-38, Sit with this (8:00)
Vipashyana 5: ACI: Dropping the Object (pp 5-7) (8:00)
07/14 Mar 10: Spring Break - practice at home or on the road!
At home:
- Clarifying: read 34-47
- Crystal: pp 72-91
At home practice: Same as 28 Feb 10 above!
21 Mar 10:
Practice in session: difference between shamatha and vipashyana
Shamatha #1: any favorite form (8:00)
Shamatha #2: Clarifying p23 "Tightening" (4:00)
Shamatha #3: Clarifying p25 "Loosening" (4:00)
Shamatha #4: Clarifying p25 "Loosening" (8:00)
Vipashyana #1: Dropping the Object ("When you notice an object of meditation, notice who's
looking and drop the object") (4:00)
Discuss difference between "Loosening" and "Dropping the Object"
Vipashyana #2: Dropping the Object (6:00)
Vipashyana #3: Online Ch 3 (12) Certainty Regarding Moving and Calm Mind, first third (8:00)
Vipashyana #4: Online Ch 4 (1) Coemergent Mind (8:00)
28 Mar 10:
Practice in session: Forget anything you ever saw before today. Your past insights are useless
here and now. See also Rumi poem.
Shamatha #1: any favorite form (8:00)
Shamatha #2: Clarifying p23 "Tightening" (2x4:00)
Shamatha #3: Dropping the Object ("When you notice an object of meditation, notice the
awareness (looking) and drop the object") (2x4:00)
Vipashyana #1: Online Ch 3 (12) Certainty Regarding Moving and Calm Mind, first third (4:00)
Vipashyana #2: Online Ch 3 (12) Certainty Regarding Moving and Calm Mind, second third (4:00)
Vipashyana #3: Online Ch 4 (2) Coemergent Thoughts (2x4:00)
Vipashyana #4: Based on "Essential Advice"
04 April 10:
Preparation:
- Clarifying: read 48-59
- Introduction to Online Guide, chapter 4.
- "Essential Advice"
Shamatha #1: any favorite form (8:00)
Shamatha #2: Clarifying p23 "Tightening" (6:00)
Shamatha #3: Dropping the Object ("When you notice an object of meditation, notice the
awareness (looking) and drop the object") (4:00)
Read from "Essential Advice", apply to subsequent meditations
Vipashyana #1 (5:00): Online Ch 4: (5) Meditation on Ordinary Mind
Vipashyana #2 (5:00): Online Ch 4: (2) Coemergent Thoughts
Vipashyana #3 (5:00): Online Ch 4: (3) Coemergent Appearances, with visual object
Vipashyana #4 (5:00): Online Ch 4: (3) Coemergent Appearances, with tactile object
Discuss difference between visual and tactile object
11 April 10:
Shamatha #1: any favorite form (8:00)
Shamatha #2: Clarifying p23 "Tightening" (2x4:00)
Shamatha #3: Dropping the Object ("When you notice an object of meditation, notice the
awareness (looking) and drop the object") (8:00)
Vipashyana #1 (6:00): Online Ch 4: (4) Ordinary Mind
Vipashyana #2 (8:00): Online Ch 4: (5) Meditation on Ordinary Mind
Vipashyana #3 (12:00): Online Ch 4: (6) Mindfulness, Vigilance, and Caring (Break this into
thirds and apply one "style" to each 4:00 period)
18 April 10:
Shamatha #1: any favorite form (8:00)
Shamatha #2: Aspiration Prayer for Dewachen 7x
Shamatha #3: Tonglen (8:00)
Shamatha #4: Clarifying p23 "Tightening" (2x4:00)
Vipashyana #1 (8:00): Online Ch 4: (4) Ordinary Mind
Vipashyana #2 (12:00): Online Ch 4: (6) Mindfulness, Vigilance, and Caring
(Break this into thirds and apply one "style" to each 4:00 period)
Vipashyana #3 (8:00): (7) Loosening Mind
25 April 10:
Aspiration Prayer for Dewachen 7x
Shamatha #1: any favorite form (8:00)
Shamatha #2: Tonglen (5:00)
Shamatha #3: Clarifying p23 "Tightening" (2x4:00)
Shamatha #4: Forget anything you ever saw before today. Your past insights are useless
here and now. Fresh, artless, and unbound
Shamatha #5: Clarifying p24 "Loosening" (2x4:00)
Vipashyana: Gamapopa's four points
Vipashyana #1: Online Ch 4: (7) Loosening Mind (8:00, 4:00)
Vipashyana #2: Online Ch 4: (8) Resting in Primal Freshness (3x4:00)
02 May 10:
Preparation:
- Clarifying: read to p70
- Crystal: read to p121
Aspiration Prayer for Dewachen 7x, tonglen
Shamatha #1: any favorite form (8:00)
Shamatha #2: Clarifying p23 "Tightening" (3x4:00)
Shamatha #3: Clarifying p24 "Loosening" (4:00)
Vipashyana: Gamapopa's four points
Vipashyana #1: Online Ch 4: (7) Loosening Mind (2x4:00)
Vipashyana #2: Online Ch 4: (8) Resting in Primal Freshness (2x4:00)
Vipashyana #3 (8:00): (9) Delightful Mind (4:00)
Vipashyana #4 (8:00): (10) Mind of Relaxation (4:00)
09 May 10:
Preparation:
- Clarifying: read to p89
- Crystal: read to p150
Aspiration Prayer for Dewachen 7x, tonglen
Shamatha #1: any favorite form (8:00)
Shamatha #2: Clarifying p23 "Tightening" (2x4:00) alternated with ...
Shamatha #3: Clarifying p24 "Loosening" (2x4:00)
Vipashyana: Gamapopa's four points
Vipashyana #1-4: Online Ch 4: (7) - (10) Mind of Relaxation (6:00 each)
Vipashyana #5: Online Ch 4: (11) Non-Meditation and Non-Distraction (6:00)
16 May 10:
Preparation:
- Guide: Introduction to chapter 5 - DAWNING OF CERTAINTY
- Clarifying and Crystal: read to end
Aspiration Prayer for Dewachen 7x, tonglen
Shamatha #1: any favorite form (8:00)
Shamatha #2: Clarifying p23 "Tightening" (2x3:00) alternated with ...
Shamatha #3: Clarifying p24 "Loosening" (2x3:00)
Guide p96: "Do not become concerned when you become distracted. Do not even examine what
happens. Once you regain mindfulness, just keep your ordinary, unadulterated awareness. Do
not think about meditation, experience, practice or realization."
Vipashyana #1-4: Online Ch 4: (7) - (10) Mind of Relaxation (6:00 each)
23 May 10: Final session of season
Aspiration Prayer for Dewachen 7x, tonglen
Shamatha #1: any favorite form (8:00)
Shamatha #2: Clarifying p23 "Tightening" (2x3:00) alternated with ...
Shamatha #3: Clarifying p24 "Loosening" (2x3:00)
Vipashyana #1-4: Online Ch 4: (7) - (10) Mind of Relaxation (6:00 each)
Vipashyana #5: Online Ch 4: (11) Non-Meditation and Non-Distraction (6:00)
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Last updated: 31 May 10
Weekly Practice Group Schedule During 2009-2010 -
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