PILGRIMAGE TO THE HEART

~ AWAKENING THE FIVE SPIRITUAL FACULTIES (pañca-indriyas) ~

The development (bhavana) of the heart-mind (citta) through meditation, although most certainly do-able for all beings with mental-faculties in place, is certainly not an easy ask of our minds. Especially more so when the five spiritual faculties (pañca-indriyas) of confidence, energy, mindfulness, concentration and wisdom remain relatively inactive within the mental-continuum (citta).

Although annual retreats are imperative, enabling our heart-minds to enter the silence and solace of silent intensive practice, without a strong focus, motivation and consistent and unceasing daily practice, the vital path factors known as the pañca-indriyas / spiritual faculties will not become enlivened, resulting in much more friction and difficulty for the practitioner’s heart attempting to tread this path.

Maintaining a daily practice, and one that is efficiently designed to maximize our time and efforts is imperative to maintain our confidence and motivation upon this path. A path which can be rather distasteful in the beginning for our heart-minds (citta).

For these reasons, and more, I invite you to join me and our Dhammic community for a monthlong meditation intensive in which we will systematically build a consistent meditation practice over the course of 30-days and 30 minute practices per day, focusing on the awakening of confidence (saddha), energy (viriya), mindfulness (sati), concentration (samādhi) and wisdom (paññā).

This monthlong intensive is designed to ensure that by its culmination all practitioners will not only have an unshakable habitual daily practice (a non-negotiable ingredient for the path), but will have filled the tank of confidence and conviction (saddha) and energy (viriya) through a systematic approach to mental-development (citta-bhavana) that will include the practices of the brahamavihāras (mettā, karunā, muditā, upekkhā), tranquility meditation (samatha), the foundations of mindfulness (satipatthāna) and the practice of insight (vipassanā) meditation.

The result will be the reawakening of the five spiritual faculties (pañca-indriyas) of confidence (saddha), energy (viriya), mindfulness (sati), concentration (samādhi) and wisdom (paññā), fuelling and sustaining our path through the winter months ahead of us and beyond.

Each 30-min session will include 20-mins of practice and 10-mins of instruction and discussion.

This offering is offered by dāna and will include 30 x 30 minutes live and recorded (via zoom) practices.

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