4 Mondays: April 4, 11, 18, 25, 2016
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

with John Mifsud

Clearing Your Mind is for experienced and new meditators and will explore practical applications and techniques to deepen concentration. How-to tools will be coupled with Buddhist teachings to strengthen meditation practice.

Week 1: The Five Hindrances
Week 2: Single Pointed Concentration, Moment to Moment Awareness and Luminous Mind
Week 3: Body Scans, Mantras and Creative Visualizations
Week 4: Divine Abodes: Loving Kindness, Compassion, Appreciative Joy and Equanimity

Open to all. Attendance at all 4 classes is encouraged but drop-ins are also welcome.

Registration: Registration is required and space is limited. Click here or on the link below to register:

http://eastbaymeditation.org/ebmcreg/?event=apr16concentration

Cost: There is no registration fee for attending this event, nor most EBMC events. However, EBMC is not independently funded. The Center and the teachers will be sustained only by your voluntary donations (the practice of generous giving, or “dana”). Please donate generously, in proportion to your ability:

* Either online (you will be offered an opportunity during the online registration process)
* Or at the event, in the two baskets at EBMC, one for the Center, the second for the Teacher

Thank you for your generosity. EBMC will be only be sustained through our collective generosity.

Fragrance-free: In order to protect the health of community members with environmental illness, please do not wear fragranced products (including “natural” fragrances) or clothes laundered in fragranced products to EBMC.

EBMC is wheelchair accessible.