Living Practice

This evening 13 people joined Satyasthira and me in our flat for the first evening of a seven-week 'Living Practice' course. I have led the course twice before and have personally benefitted a lot by doing so. It is an intensive mindfulness course, during which one undertakes a daily meditation and various mindfulness exercises, keeping a record of the practices in a journal. Each week one reviews with others the results of the weeks exercises. The course was initially put together by Maitreyabandhu from the London Buddhist Centre. He has recently published a book, entitled Life with Full Attention, based on his experiences of running the course.

Unfortunately I had another full day of meetings and appointments and missed another day's training, so have to be content with having trained my mind rather than my body today. All being well, I'll run tomorrow and again at the weekend, though it is still below freezing and the pavements are hazardous underfoot.