This is a six-week foundation course based on a practice diary. This course aims to support people in establishing a meditation practice, breaking down teaching into day-by-day experiential exercises and reviewing how the meditation is going. The materials include a meditation diary, handouts with reminders of the practice, and Teachers Notes. Developed by Maitreyabandhu and peer-reviewed by the Lighting the Flame Group.

Notes on the Practice Diary

This post introduces the context for using the Diary in a course you are leading.

1. Aims
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This is a fully-worked-out six-week course introducing the FWBO’s main meditation practices, by Sagaraghosha from the Cambridge Buddhist Centre, UK. We’ve included a file with the complete course combined into one document.

Week 1:

• Guide line for the teacher
• Handout ‘Practical Points‘
• Handout ‘Four Types of Meditation‘ (concentrative, generative, reflective, receptive)
• Handout about meditation diary and meditation CDs

Week 2:

• Guide line for the teacher
• Handout ‘Meditation Posture‘
• Handout ‘Mindfulness of Breathing‘
• Handout ‘Diary‘ 2

Week 3:

• Guide line for the teacher
• Handout ‘Diary‘ 3

Week 4:

• Guide line for the teacher
• Handout ‘Metta Bhavana‘
• Handout ‘Diary‘ 4

Week 5:

• Guide line for the teacher
• Handout ‘Diary‘ 5

Week 6:

• Guide line for the teacher
• Handout ‘Diary‘ 6
• Handout ‘Feedback sheet‘
• Programme for Meditation 1 Practice Day

Get the Level 2 course by Sagaraghosha 

Buddhistisches Tor Berlin. Ãœberblick Über einen 6-Wochen-Kurs, basierend auf den Büchern Buddhismus auf einen Blick von Kulananda und Wegweiser Buddhismus von Sangharakshita.

Here you can download the handouts for a six-week course, provided by Achala from New Zealand.

Please note that according to Achala further improvement of some of these handouts is needed! Please share your improvements in the comments.

NOTE: This is what Achala said about his intentions when designing this course:

I tried to construct a course such that it:
 

• covers what an average human being needs to effectively practice Buddhism
   
• doesn’t not have a scholastic bent (so a few Pali/Sanskrit terms seemed reasonable

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This is Module 1 of the Level 2 Buddhism Course by Vajrapriya used at Cambridge Buddhist Centre, UK (November 2007). 

The resources include: notes for the course leader (including learning objectives, guide lines for input and exercises, background information, suggestions for home practice), and handouts

Week 1: Sraddha – Faith within a Buddhist context
Topics: Grounds of faith; developing faith; faith and doubt; faith and inspiration; experiences of faith.

• Notes for the course leader
• Handout 1 (2 pages): Faith within a Buddhist Context
• Handout 2 (1 page): Quotes on Faith
   

Week 2: Going for Refuge
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