Mind, Reactive and Creative
A six-week Buddhism course for beginners and regulars
One of the Buddha’s key insights is that our state of mind influences our thoughts, which in turn determine our actions, and thereby our world.
This course explores the idea that the mind operates in two very different ways. When our mind is reactive, we are led by habitual patterns of thought. But if we can liberate ourselves from those habitual patterns, then our mind can begin to be creative.
The spiritual life is essentially a movement from the reactive mind to the creative mind. When our habitual patterns of thinking fall away, we begin to realise how much energy we were putting into our bad habits, and usual cycle of thoughts. This newly liberated energy can go into positive transformation of our minds. We can start to live the way we really want to live. How we then decide to live is essentially a creative process. Every moment of life offers us the choice of being creative in this sense, rather than reactive.
On this six-week Buddhism course, we will investigate just what that choice means in our own lives, with a combination of teaching, discussion, meditation and practical exercises. For those who are new to meditation, full instruction will be given. The path to Enlightenment is one of ever-increasing creativity. We will explore one of the Buddha’s teachings in which he describes a sequence of ever-increasing creative states of mind, all the way to Enlightenment.
Participants will receive the e book ‘Mind, Reactive and Creative’ as part of the course.
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Level Of Experience Needed: All
Led By: Pundarika, Satyadaka & Friends
Date/Time: September 10, 2023 - October 15, 2023 - 10:30am - 12:30pm
Price: £105 / £60
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