UYM - Workshop on the principles of meditation: The Noble Eightfold Path | Tue 08 Feb at 17:10

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UYM - Workshop on the principles of meditation: The Noble Eightfold Path

Meditation can be practiced as a standalone activity, but also as part of a path that leads to the highest, ultimate form of happiness one can achieve in life. This path is known as ‘The Noble Eightfold Path’, and it encompasses not just meditation but all one does in life. Are you interested in learning more about the origin and the principles of meditation? Read more below!

The eightfold path

Doing meditation without walking the path in its entirety, is like mopping the floor while leaving the water tap open: your meditation may increase your quality of life a bit, at least temporarily, but you can (and will) easily undo your own progress again in other aspects of your life. Don’t get me wrong: there is nothing wrong with doing (some form of) meditation as a standalone activity, it can still be beneficial. However, if you have a car, why use it only to visit people who live in the same street, and not to drive to the other side of the world? The Noble Eightfold path brings you as far as you can go in terms of happiness: to the highest, ultimate, most perfect form of happiness. Meditating as part of that path, is hence like driving your car to the other side of the world: you use, exploit the car’s potential to its fullest.

The course Rutger Hommes is offering is one in which you will learn to do meditation as part of the path. You will learn how to drive, not just to the end of the street you live in, but to the other side of the world. Of course, you yourself have to do the driving, no one else can do that for you – but at least it helps if an experienced driver who knows the road gives you the proper instructions. That’s what the course is about. There’s no distinction between beginners and ‘advanced’ meditators in this course: we are all beginners here. The course is thus accessible to, and suitable for, all. The focus of the course is on activity, on action, on meditation, but always in the context of the Noble Eightfold Path.

Preparation beforehand 
Perhaps you have come to a point now where you are thinking ‘I am interested’. In that case, Rutger ask the following of you: please contact him personally via WhatsApp on 0646042974, or via e-mail on rutger.hommes@tno.nl. This way, he knows you are truly interested, and will send you some important preparatory material for the course. This preparation makes sure that you have sufficient theoretical background for the course itself, in which we will focus not on theory but on practice only. It is – in theory – possible to attend the course without this preparation, but its not recommend. So please, contact Rutger personally if you intend to participate.

  Tue 08 Feb 17:10 - 19:00
  Mon 07 Feb 17:00

 Online via Teams

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