Training. Mentoring. Coaching.
dhamma + meditation + instruction = stream-entry
advanced buddhist dharma life coaching and stream-entry training
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Actually getting you to your moment of awakening and stream-entry, the first Stage of Buddhist Enlightenment.
Standard subjects and techniques covered include leveraging and integrating the Buddhist approach to problem-management, resilience, and compassion into your day-to-day life. Additionally, we will work on leveraging meditation and the dharma to address issues such as guilt, anxiety, conflict, and all sorts of other day-to-day issues that cause you stress or displeasure. This develops the foundations for stream-entry.
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Do you have an interest in better understanding your dharma books and practically applying lessons contained within them?
As appropriate for your level of practice, we may optionally work our way through specific source materials to help you progress along the path toward awakening. Be it an agreed-upon favourite dharma book, or one that I recommend that supports or enhances your practice and your current position along the path: reading the materials together, discussing the key points, relating the teachings and instructions to your real-world experiences and challenges, and guiding you on how to take your practice from theory to practical application. III. Post-retreat, Real-world Reintegration (if applicable)
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Are you going on retreat or coming back from one?
Many practitioners go on meditation retreats, and some of those who spend their time there skilfully experience profound insights and realisations, or actuate highly-definable meditative attainments, but sadly, they don’t make the necessary changes to their lives when they get back to the “real world" to support and cultivate those attainments; they don't respect that it's not always easy to transition back to the real world after an extended period in a sanctuary of noble silence and peaceful tranquillity...and so, unsurprisingly, they fall right back into old habit patterns and routines, wasting all that time, money, and effort to go on retreat. This coupled with other reasons is why, retreat-after-retreat, so many practitioners still haven’t reached the even first Stage of Enlightenment. If you are going on retreat, I will work with you to help you plan how you can best utilise the precious time that you spend on retreat to min-max your experience and increasing your chances of bringing home sustainable progress. If you are coming back from retreat, I will work with you to help you retain the insights, realisations, and attainments you experienced while you were on retreat. Making the transition from a quiet sanctuary back to the hustle-and-bustle of regular life can be a jarring and challenging experience and I can help make the experience a more productive and long-lasting one. |
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Assisting with the understanding and practice of more advanced concepts that are not appropriate for unprepared minds. Please contact me directly for more information.
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Buddhist Meditation Training:
Anapanasati Meditation (stabilising/breath) Analytical Meditation (cogitation) Lamrim Meditation (structured analytical) Samatha/Jhana Meditation (blissful concentration) Vipassana Meditation (insight/three characteristics) Metta Meditation (lovingkindness/bodhicitta) Tonglen Meditation (exchanging) Maranassati Meditation (death) Lojong Meditation (mind-training) ...and some other analytical practices and esoteric methods. |
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There are many different meditation techniques that are taught and applied in traditional Eastern Buddhism, and moving beyond the the introductory breathing and awareness meditations is critical to the long-term success of the time you spend on the cushion. Together we will explore some of these other techniques to find the ones that are most in-line with your skills and practices, and those that would be beneficial (e.g., filling skill or knowledge gaps) to helping you achieve tangible and practical on- and off-the-cushion results. We will identify the techniques that will flesh-out your practice and fill the gaps that aren't being addressed in your current practice (e.g., the ones that are holding you back). This develops the foundations for stream-entry.
You will learn how and when to use differing meditation techniques as specific antidotes to the inevitable challenges and difficulties that you will encounter in life; for example, that using tonglen is best for being stuck in a disgusting hotel room, while practicing metta is better if you're ego-tripping after a win/loss situation. You're not going to find this out in a book or at your local dharma center. On top of that, this is more than just about providing you with a stable foundation from which to develop a well-rounded, productive, and stable meditation practice, it's about developing the skills needed to realise awakening, attain stream-entry, and make your way down the path toward full enlightenment. |
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Time to take your meditation to the next level and apply a purposeful direction to your time on the cushion: awakening and realistically entering into the clearly defined Stages of Enlightenment as you learn to make highly-measurable progress toward Nirvana. We will explore various natural states of altered consciousness and the direct realisation of Emptiness (sunyata) by way of attaining deeper levels of sustained concentration (jhana) or high-velocity insight (vipassana).
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Michael Turner is a pre-monastic Buddhist Ariya-puggala and a deeply accomplished enlightenment trainer and dharma life coach. He emphasises and teaches the practical application of Buddhism in our everyday lives to make real progress toward enlightenment and is particularly adept at explaining them in ways that can be easily understood and practiced by Western Buddhists. He has been meditating and cultivating the techniques to generate indestructible resilience and inner-strength for more than 25 years and has helped countless numbers of people enhance their practice to make clear progress along the Path.
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