3 Phase Training Program

Live Online - One Weekend over 6 Months

    1. Welcome. Getting started with this course

    2. DATES & TIMES PHASES 2 & 3

    3. 🚩 MTTCS WORKBOOK

    4. Required & Recommended Reading

    1. VIDEO 1:1 MTTCS ORRIENTATION

    2. HOW DO WE KNOW WE ARE MEDITATING article by Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel

    3. REVISION: Phase 1 Session 1

    4. VIDEO What is 'Buddhist' Mindfulness with Lama Alan Wallace

    1. Mindfulness and Attention by Mingyur Rinpoche

    2. Handout: 4 Foundations Mindfulness

    3. Handout: Shamatha - Vipassana

    4. Topics overview Mindfulness Retreat

    5. 1:1 RECORDING Saturday. Workbook intention, mindfulness retreat

    6. 1:2 RECORDING Saturday. Practice: Three Components of Meditation

    7. 1:1 RECORDING Sunday: seated, standing, walking, lying down Vispassana body scan

    8. 1:2 RECORDING Sunday revision, compassion, When Things Fall Apart quote. Homework. Walk through Phases 2 & 3.

    1. 🎬1:1 RECORDING FRIDAY NIGHT Practice: Touch and Go - Disowning. Physical contraction_Openness

    2. Buddhist Principles in Creative Practice

    3. POEM PRACTICE: Joining Heaven and Earth

    4. Video 'Genesis of Expression' with Dzigar Khontrol Rinpoche

    5. DOWNLOAD. Perception from ECourse Meditation Practice Week 5

    6. Enjoyable HOMEWORK: Contemplative Photography Exercise with Partner

    7. 🎬 2:1 RECORDING SATURDAY PRCTICE 5 Elements

    8. 🎬 2:2 RECORDING SATURDAY DHARMA ART. LET THE WORLD IN EXERCISES

    9. 🎬 2:3 RECORDING SATURDAY DHARMA ART CON'T. WRITING EXERCISE

    10. 🎬 3:1 RECORDING SUNDAY Embodied Immediacy, 4 Noble Truths nature of suffering

    11. 🎬 3:2 RECORDING SUNDAY GUIDED MEDITATION: EMBODIED IMMEDIACY + WALKING MEDITATION

    12. 🎬 3:3 RECORDING SUNDAY OUTLINING HOMEWORK read in conjunction with downloads pdfs

    13. DOWNLOAD: MP Lesson 6 CONTEMPLATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY EXERCISE

    14. 📸 Partners for WEEK 2 contemplative photography exercise

    1. 🎬 REPLAY FRIDAY Talk Dependent Arising. MEDITATION: Breath Count-Touch

    2. 🎬 REPLAY 1:1 SATURDAY Contemplative Photography Exercise 1

    3. 🎬 1:2 SATURDAY Contemplative Photography Exercise 2

    4. 🎬 REPLAY 1:1 SUNDAY Guided Meditation and talk on Compassion

    5. 🎬 REPLAY 1:2 SUNDAY Mindfulness Phenomena, discussion; HOMEWORKprep

    6. 📸 IMAGES from your Contemplative Photography practice Part-2 PP

    7. 📸 Buddhist Principles in the Process of Art Making 2024 (powerpoint pdf)

    8. Video: Gentle Vase Breathing with Tsoknyi Rinpoche from Why We Meditate: 7 Simple Practices for a Calmer Mind

    9. 'It Depends' VIDEO about Dependant Arising' with Dzongsar Khyenste Rinpoche

    10. Sogyal Rinpoches notes on Meditation

    11. Pema Chodron's practice L.E.S.R meditation

    12. PREPARATION FOR SATURDAY CONTEMPLATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT

    1. 🎬FRIDAY RECORDING; Contemplation, Practice, Discussion, Practice

    2. 🎬 SATURDAY RECORDING Part 1

    3. 🎬SATURDAY RECORDING PART 2: Mingyur Rinpoches awakening experience, TED TALK Rick Hansen Brain Hardwiring, compassion practice

    4. 🎬 SUNDAY RECORDING Session 1 Teaching Methodology

    5. SUNDAY RECORDING Session 2 incl homework outline

    6. INSPIRATION David Whyte "Self Knowledge", Miriam Rose, "Dadirri - Deep Listening", Mary Oliver "Mindfulness

    7. Excerpt from 'In Love with the World', Chapter 28 by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche related to afternoon discussion

    8. Amygdala Limbic System

    9. Handout: DUKKHA A Buddhist View_Pema Chodron

    10. Copy from Week 1: HOW DO WE KNOW WE ARE MEDITATING article by Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel

    11. Guiding a Practice: Methodology Part 1

    12. HOMEWORK: GUIDING A MEDITATION PRACTICE

    13. Homework overview due week 4

    14. YouTube INTENTION & YOGA NIDRA Kamini Desai describing the 5 Koshas in relation to intention

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