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Clearing The Mind:Tools and Techniques for Increasing Calm Abiding

April 1, 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

|Recurring Event (See all)

An event every week that begins at 6:30 pm on Monday, repeating until April 22, 2019

with John Mifsud

Clearing the Mind is for both experienced and new meditators. We will explore practical techniques that increase deep relaxation and steady concentration. Simple, how-to tools will combine with traditional Buddhist teachings to strengthen calm abiding in meditation practice.

All classes are stand-alone, come to one or all four.

Week 1: Single Pointed Concentration, Moment to Moment
Awareness and Luminous Mind
Week 2: Body Scans, Mantras and Creative Visualizations
Week 3: What Gets in the Way – The Five Hindrances
Week 4: Focusing on the Divine Abodes: Loving Kindness, Compassion, Appreciative Joy & Equanimity.

Space is limited and registration is requested. REGISTER HERE

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 to donate to EBMC; the teachers will not receive any part of this online donation).
* 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.

Details

Date:
April 1, 2019
Time:
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Event Category:

Venue

East Bay Meditation Center
285 17th Street
Oakland, CA 94612 United States
Phone:
510-268-0696

Details

Date:
April 1, 2019
Time:
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Event Category:

Venue

East Bay Meditation Center
285 17th Street
Oakland, CA 94612 United States
Phone:
510-268-0696