Manchester Buddhist Centre

Exploring and med­it­at­ing, and look­ing at a paper by Subhuti on Mindfulness and the Mind

Subhuti looks at what mind­ful­ness is and how we prac­tise it, begin­ning by ask­ing what is mind. He talks about the five con­stants that make up a mind moment:

• con­tact
• feel­ing
• Interpretation
• will
• atten­tion

He then shows how these con­stants relate to karma-vipaka and then to mind­ful­ness, which he talks about in terms of:

• Smrti — attentiveness
• Samprajanya — awareness
• Apramada — vigilance

Our own experience

If all this sounds a bit heady, we will be try­ing to see how we can prac­tise this, identi­fy­ing in our own exper­i­ence what these things are and how they can help us on the spir­itual path.

Booking

If the prices are too much for you, please just book at recep­tion and give what you can

Before the day

Please read Subhuti’s paper and come with any questions