Mindfulness
for Better Living and Spritual Development with
Dr. Charles T. 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. US$ 295.00
Spring, 2012 - To be announced
