Welcome to the first year of the In-Depth Meditation Training!

This first year will visit the following topics:

• Shamatha as a path to overcoming the five hindrances
• Insight meditation as the application of the seven enlightenment factors to the four close placements of mindfulness,
• Application of Buddhist psychology (mind and mental factors) to meditation and daily life
• Training in both bare awareness and mindfulness with analysis and investigation
• Meditation on the twelve links of dependent origination
• Introduction to the seven stages of purification in Theravada
• Exploring the relation between our conditioned nature and potential to become enlightened
• Mindfulness of the qualities of the Buddha as a perspective on ourselves and our relation with the Buddha
• Setting up a motivation; harnessing the power of our intentionality
• Exploring the relation between right view, wholesome emotions, and our sense of agency
• Meditation on the four brahmavihara’s and the relations between them
• Generating the mind of definite emergence as a balanced awareness of our precious human life being in the nature of samsara
• The supportive role of the arhat ideal in meditation, as a precursor to the bodhisattva ideal

For a full description of the four year program, take a look at the IDMT program page.