Diamond of Mindfulness: A Christic Transmission
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A comprehensive teaching and transmission of right mindfulness integrating the earliest Buddhist traditions, subsequent meditative innovations, and the profound pinnacle of the mindful path.
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Zoom meeting
About the event
This teaching and transmission series over 72 sessions aims to introduce the theory and practice of right mindfulness (samma sati) in the Buddhist meditative context from its traditional origins to its terminus. We begin our experiential contemplation with the early Pali Nikaya and Chinese Agama texts through to the Abhidhamma and commentarial treatises such as Visuddhi-magga and Vimutti-magga; Chinese Chan and Japanese Zen literature; Mahayana Pure Land literature; Mahayana sutric and tantric texts of the Indic Nalanda tradition; Indo-Tibetan Mahayana and Vajrayana transmissions of Lamrim, Lojong, Lower and Highest Yoga Tantras—culminating in the advanced lineages of Mahamudra and Dzogchen, considered by tradition to be the pinnacle of the path of enlightenment.
The focus is essentially experiential and practical, with sufficient doctrinal and theoretical points transmitted to the degree necessary for solid unmistaken practice and realization. While all efforts have been made to ensure fidelity to revered tradition and transmission,…