
Basic Mindfulness & Lovingkindness
This course has finished
Four weeks – free online-course
This course is for beginners. Send it to your friends and family who want to start at the ground level with mindfulness/Vipassana and Metta/Loving Kindness, and learn how start and maintain a daily practice. If you are beyond the beginner stage you can still participate, and will still likely benefit.
The daily practice recommendation will be 30 minutes of formal practice.
There will be lots of space for discussion and questions about practice.
Cost: Free.
The class will be recorded and will be available after the course is done.
We’ll meet on Zoom. The class will last for 90 mins.
Course Overview
- Week 1 (Feb 16th):
Introduction to Basic Mindfulness -
- See, Hear, Feel (SHF) technique
- Rewards & benefits of mindfulness
- Week 2 (Feb 23rd):
Mindfulness in Daily Life -
- See, Hear, Feel techniques, practice in daily life
- Week 3 (Mar 1st):
Loving Kindness Meditation -
- Learn Loving Kindness Meditation
- Practice strategies to work with pleasant & unpleasant experiences
- Apply loving kindness and mindfulness to inner opportunities and obstacles
- Learn to accelerate growth through practice
- Practice Homework
- Week 4 (Mar 8th):
Wrap Up – Your Road Map for further progress on the Path -
- The rhythm of practice: Life, Retreats, Getting Support, Giving Support, Question & Answer
The class will be taught twice to reach people in different time zones. The content is the same.
- 1) USA Sunday Morning & Europe Sunday Evening Class:
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- In the US:
- 11:00am Eastern Time Zone
- 10:00am Central
- 9:00am Mountain
- 8:00 am Pacific
- In the US:
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- In Europe:
- 17:00 (Central European Time (CET) which is UTC/GMT+1)
- 16:00 (Western European Time (WET) which is UTC/GMT +0.)
- In Europe:
- 2) USA Sunday Evening Class
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- 7:30pm Eastern
- 6:30pm Central
- 5:30pm Mountain
- 4:30pm Pacific.
This course has now finished
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Hourly Schedule
Schedule Common to each 90 minute class:
- 11:00
- 5 Minutes of Meditation
- 5 minutes review of prior class (first class will be introductions instead)
- 20 mins practice questions relating to last weeks material (first class would be lecture instead)
- 15 mins lecture of new practice ("See, Hear, Feel" Vipassana, and Metta)
- 5 mins brief clarifications as to the technique
- 20 mins guided meditation for technique just discussed
- 20 mins follow up questions and homework assignment.