level 1¶
format¶
- heart sutra
- sitting meditation
- walking meditation
- dharma lessons
- dedication of merits
topics¶
- Karma and Causality
- The Buddha
- Three Jewels / Three Refuges
- Four Tenets of Chung Tai
- Five Precepts & Ten
- Wholesome Deeds
- Vegetarianism & Buddhism
- Four Noble Truths
first ten weeks¶
- fundamental buddhism
- practice meditation and mindfulness
- learn how to connect awareness, causality
- fundamental buddhist principles to the practice of mindfulness and meditation
week 1 Mindfulness & Fundamentals¶
- heart sutra
- how to sit
- how to walk
- abc - aware - be with - change
- look at your feet
- story of young & old monk walking at night
week 2 meditation¶
- shamatha & vipassana
- meditation journal
- first noble truth: suffering
- second noble truth: cause of suffering
- third noble truth: ending suffering nirvana
- fourth noble truth: links of dependent origination
- four foundations: body, feelings, mind, phenomenon
week 3 karma¶
- Karma and Causality
- story: changing destiny & clowns habits pie in the face & karma piggy bank with holes in it &
week 4 buddha¶
week 5 group discussion¶
- group discussion
week 6¶
week 7 tenets¶
- Four Tenets of Chung Tai
- respect is the antidote to arrogance
week 8 precepts¶
- Five Precepts & Ten
week 9 wholesome deeds¶
- Wholesome Deeds
week 10 Vegetarianism¶
- Vegetarianism & Buddhism
second ten weeks¶
- four noble truths
- by the end of the course, students will have a basic understanding of these important mahayana teachings and their significance
week 11¶
week 12¶
week 13¶
week 14¶
week 15¶
week 16¶
week 17 Suffering¶
week 18 Causes of Suffering¶
week 19 Nirvana¶
week 20 Noble Eightfold Path¶
quotes and stories¶
- how can you walk down the mountain at night?
- upali haircut story: https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN/MN56.html
dharma lecture topics¶
- Mindfulness & Fundamentals
- Mindfulness & Meditation
- Karma and Causality
- The Buddha
- Three Jewels / Three Refuges
- Four Tenets of Chung Tai
- Five Precepts & Ten
- Wholesome Deeds
- Vegetarianism & Buddhism
- Four Noble Truths
- Suffering
- Causes of Suffering
- Nirvana
- Noble Eightfold Path