Dedicated Practitioner Program

The DPP is a practice curriculum that includes meditation, study, reflection, investigation and the jewel of sangha. We meet once a month in Shenton Park. The course is designed to meet the needs of experienced practitioners wishing to deepen and broaden their understanding, embodiment and realisation of the dharma. A program which originated at Spirit Rock Insight Meditation Centre (California), and which is facilitated by Sally Clough and Eugene Cash in the U.S.

Sally has generously agreed to give us the files for study which are designed by various recognised teachers such as Jack Kornfield, Sylvia Boorstein and others. Our intention is to challenge, broaden and vitalise our understanding and embodiment of central Buddhist teachings through in-depth study, reflection and practice.

Topics include:

• Four Noble Truths
• Eightfold Path
• Understanding Dependent Origination and Karma
• Worldly Dharmas: sex, money, work and relationships
• Being guided by Buddhist cosmology and world view
• Four Foundations of Mindfulness
• Compassion and the Bodhisattva path
• Embodied speech and enlightened activity
• Five Aggregates and the teachings of Not-Self
• Brahma Viharas: The fullness of the awakened heart
• Working with emotions, fetters, and entanglements
• Learning from the Suttas, and making them come alive
• Freedom, Liberation, and Nibbana

For more information please contact: Laura Bernay 9380 4704 Email: lbernay@iinet.net.au