Mindfulness for Better Living and
Spiritual Development
Online Workshop featuring personal guidance and support
from Dr. Charles T. Tart
Coming February 18, 2012
To
reserve a spot in this upcoming online workshop or to subscribe
to our workshop newsletter, please write to us at:
programs@glidewing.com
About the upcoming Workshop from Dr. Tart:
In 2012
I will be offering for the first time, a unique web-based course
on the Foundations of Mindfulness. Mindfulness in the sense of
deeper perception and understanding of how you, your mind, your
feelings, perceive, react to and think about your world and your
self. Mindfulness in the sense of becoming aware of the many
robot-like, automatized ways of perceiving and reacting we have
which might have been useful once upon a time, but which now
distort our perceptions, understandings, and reactions.
Mindfulness in the sense of formal, classic meditation practices
common to the world's spiritual traditions, like concentrative
meditation and insight meditation, and, even more importantly,
increasing mindfulness in your everyday life activities, where
you need it the most! I think hardly anyone has ever hurt
themselves or others very much with their thoughts and
perceptions while sitting on a special cushion and calling it
"meditation," but how many times have we mindlessly
said or done something in ordinary life that led to all sorts of
unpleasant consequences, and we end up thinking "If only I'd
realized what I was saying and doing at the time and kept quiet,
or said something else!"
It's much more difficult to speak clearly
from the heart, but my heart is behind these words, and my basic
aim is that we all live happier lives through becoming wiser and
kinder. I also teach from a conviction that increasing our
self-knowledge is a vital path in those directions of happier,
more effective, and spiritually growthful lives. I hope my words
and presence can convey some of that wish to you. We'll talk
about heart, as well as intellectual, knowledge often in this
course.
Who am I teaching this course for?
You:
- if you are curious about understanding
your own mind better and using it better, and/or
- if you are thinking of starting some
spiritual practice like meditation or mindful living, or already
are such a practitioner, and/or
- if you are suspecting that some of your
suffering in life comes from the way your mind operates, but it
doesn't have to operate that way....and/or
- if you are looking for more meaning to
life than contemporary, materialistic culture presents you.
We are fortunate to live in a time when all of the world's deeper
spiritual paths, systems and disciplines of practice that claim
to lead us to our deeper spiritual nature, are much more
available than ever before.
In the three weeks of the
Workshop, you will be introduced to
- Concentrative meditation, the
"pumping mental iron" that increases your ability to
focus and hold,
- Insight meditation, where you start using that increased
ability to focus, observe, and explore how your mind actually
works, and
- Gurdjieffian self-remembering, where you bring increased
mindfulness to your everday life activities.
We hope that you will join us on this journey of exploration!
-
Dr. Charles T. Tart
Questions?
Please write to us at programs@glidewing.com
