Green Tara Retreat (Online)
Choden will offer an experiential retreat exploring how to integrate the teachings and practices of the Tibetan deity practice Green Tara into your daily life and meditation practice.
Boundless Compassion: Mahamudra, Compassion and Messy Humanity
The Springer Mindfulness Journal has published the second article of the Mahamudra and Mindfulness Series, written by Mindfulness Association tutor and Buddhist monk Choden. As with the first article, Choden explores a central tenet of Mahamudra teaching – this time compassion – and how it is central to modern mindfulness practice. Compassion is fundamental to the work…
The Seven Points of Mind Training
This course will explore the Seven Points of Mind Training (called Lojong in Tibetan) in a pragmatic step by step way. Lojong is a profound and famous text from Tibetan Buddhism that lays out specific guidelines for how to apply wisdom and compassion in our meditation practice and daily lives.
Wisdom and Modernity
Wisdom and Modernity: Honouring the Past, Present and Future of Mindfulness. This month saw the publication of the article “Mahamudra and Mindfulness Series, Part 1: Mindfulness” in the Springer Mindfulness Journal by Mindfulness Association tutor and Buddhist monk Choden. This is the first of several articles by Choden that will be published in Mindfulness, an…
New! Compassion Based Living Course Book
New Compassion Based Living Course Book LINK TO SEE THE BOOK! The Compassion Based Living Course, is a self-guided compassion course based on Choden and Heather’s fifteen years’ experience of teaching in depth compassion meditation courses to thousands of students. It draws on compassion teachings and practices from Mahayana Buddhism, which have been adapted to…
Doctoral Research on Race and Trans and Nonbinary Inclusion in Mindfulness
Josetta (they/them) October 2024 update The initial title and remit for my PhD was “Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in Mindfulness” to look across the 9 protected characteristics listed under The Equality Act 2010 (race and ethnicity, religion or belief, sex, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, gender reassignment, age, marriage and civil partnership) [1].…
11 April at 7pm – Live Research Forum
Our next Research forum is this Thursday 11 April at 7pm. Join Us! We are excited to announce the launch of our new Mindfulness Research Forum. Each month two of our recent graduates from our MSc Studies in Mindfulness Courses will present their research with us live over zoom. The next presentation will take…
What is Buddhism?
A Personal View Next month, in April, I’m going to be teaching on a course with Choden (mindfulness teacher, Buddhist monk, author and old friend) on “The Practice of Buddhism”, which I’ve been asked to write a few words about. Where to start! Buddhism has been around for over two and half thousand years, after…
Naturally Being Blog
I am sitting in a retreat led by Rupert Spira this week, at home, online. Rupert Spira teaches the direct path and pathless path to non-dual awareness or naturally being. I relate to his teachings very strongly and find that his style is similar to the style of my first and main meditation teacher Rob…