Life with Full Attention
- Mon Oct 14th 2024
- 7:00 pm
- 9:30 pm
- Booking required
- £195/£135
This 8-week course runs 14th October – 2nd December.
The point of life is to live – to live as fully, richly, and meaningfully as possible.
The point is to really do something with your life, instead of merely scrolling through Instagram, binge-watching Netflix or rehearsing arguments in your head. Most people simply don’t realise how much potential they have, how large their life could be. The Buddhist practice of mindfulness is to do with becoming more alive and less toxic, more whole and less fragmented.
This 8-week course is an ideal way to learn mindfulness. The course uses as its base Maitreyabandhu’s book Life with Full Attention (included in the course) and is accompanied by the Life with Full Attention App.
There are hundreds of books on mindfulness, but for a practical guide I would turn first to Life with Full Attention by Maitreyabandhu…. Alice O’Keeffe, The Guardian
Mindfulness is about working with limiting thoughts in order to become more alive, more creative and more able to face the challenges of life. After all, it’s your mindset, your habitual thought patterns and unconscious inner narratives that limit your life.
Studies suggest that mindfulness helps people manage stress, cope better with illness and reduce anxiety and depression. Many people report an increased ability to relax, a greater enthusiasm for life, and improved self-esteem.
Mindfulness comes from the Wisdom tradition of Buddhism. If we take mindfulness out of that context we change it. It becomes less authentic. This course puts mindfulness back in context but in a day-to-day practical way, bringing ancient mindfulness techniques to bear on modern life.
Ultimately the aim of mindfulness is to move towards reality itself, to progress toward the enlightened mind.
Put this course into action on our 1-3 November weekend retreat. Book both together and save. More info here.
Amalavajra (l), Maitrikumara (m), Samantavajra (r)
Booking
The easiest way to book is online - just click the button below.
Please make sure you have read all the details of the event, have made sure you are eligible to attend (eg for 'going deeper' events) and are willing to make any commitments that are required.
Bookings are fully refundable up to 7 days in advance. After that we cannot usually offer refunds.
You can also book in person at the Centre, or by sending a cheque payable to West London Buddhist Centre along with your name, email and phone number and the name and date of the event to:
The West London Buddhist Centre,
45a Porchester Rd,
London W2 5DP
Please include your name, email and phone number with your booking.
