MBEL is a 10-week, facilitator-guided online course, inspired by the early teachings of the Buddha and adapted to the realities of modern life.
More Than Mindfulness
While mindfulness is often promoted today as a tool for personal well-being, MBEL goes further to explore our relationships and interconnectedness in the world. It invites us to open to life’s deepest realities – aging, illness, and death, as well as impermanence and discontent – and to engage in an ongoing process of reflecting on our experiences and seeking to minimize harm and suffering.
Caring about Myself, Other Beings, and the Environment
Home Practice Assignments
Guided meditation – Embracing discomfort
Session 4: Recognizing reactivity
Introduction
Recognizing Reactivity
Bringing Mindfulness to Reactive Habits
Pleasant, Unpleasant, and Neutral Feeling Tones
Three Sources of Reactivity
Home Practice Assignments
Guided Meditation – Feeling Tones
Session 5: Lessening reactivity
Introduction
Letting Be
Being With Whatever Is
What Gives Rise to Discontent?
Positive Aspirations
Home Practice Assignments
Session 6: Reactivity passes
Introduction
Habitual Reactions Come and Go
Experiencing Non-reactivity
With Patience and Courage Our Habits Weaken
Home Practice Assignments
Session 7: Dwelling in a non-reactive space
Introduction
Freedom, Choice, and Care
Resting in Non-reactivity
“Just Like Me”
Home Practice Assignments
Guided meditation – Equanimity
Session 8: Living ethically
Introduction
Living Ethically
Caring and Responsibility
Ethical Mindfulness
Acting in the World
The Web of Life
Opening the Heart
Home Practice Assignments
Session 9: A middle way
Introduction
A Middle Way
Contemplation and Action
Equanimity: A Stable Presence
Tips for Cultivating Equanimity
Ethical Guidelines for Daily Life
Home Practice Assignments
Session 10: Social engagement and human flourishing
Introduction
Social Engagement and Human Flourishing
Changing Ourselves, Changing the World
On Meaning and Flourishing
Mindfulness in the Day to Day
Appendix
Glossary of Terms
Glossary of Names
Aikido Story by Terry Dobson
Matthieu Ricard -The Path to a Compassionate Society
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