Teacher: Christopher Ash

Weekly Conversations

When a specific course is not happening, I open up our Zoom venue each Sunday at 4:00 PM, Sydney-Melbourne time, for conversation. These weekly Kalyanamitta meetings are open to those who have done my courses or have made an arrangement with me personally.

If there is a topic designated for the Sunday meeting, it will be listed below in the events.

Courses

Any courses will be on Zoom; and all are held on Sundays at 4:00 PM, Sydney-Melbourne time. In between courses we enjoy our regular conversations.

Individual Sessions with Christopher

If you have any questions about the approach to the Dharma, or feel in need of support, I’m available for one-on-one sessions.

In case there is extra content, click on the heading-link for the particular course.

Event Information:

  • Sun
    12
    Mar
    2023

    Experiencing Felt Meaning

    4:00 pmOnline

    The Buddhadharma is organised around the principle that experiencing is central to the 'wakeful' life. ("Buddha" means 'awake.)

    All the familiar Buddhist terms - mindfulness, situational awareness (clear comprehension), meditation, grounded attention (yonisomanasikara), wisdom, and so on - are experiential terms. That is, they are about intimate knowledge of the life of the body.

    This 'knowledge' is, however, not intellectual. We know the body from within the body, the feeling-tones from within the feeling-tones, the perceptions from within the perceptions, the intentional (shaping) processes from within those processes, and consciousness from within consciousness.

    Felt meaning plays a fundamental role in this self-knowledge. How is this so?