MODULE ONE

Opening to the Miracle of Awakened Consciousness

In order to observe direct awakening, a transparent understanding and expertise of woke up consciousness is important. In this opening session, we’ll take an experiential journey into our personal true nature, noticing how this luminous consciousness differs from strange consciousness and studying how we will permit this sacred dimension of being to naturally start to disclose itself as none apart from our personal true self.

You’ll be taught . . .

• How to acknowledge your individual “true nature” or “awakened consciousness” and make room for this important thriller to start to animate your being.
• What it means to “practice awakening” proper now and the way this differs from working towards to be able to put together for awakening.
• How to discern the distinction between “awakened consciousness” and different altered states of consciousness that may typically be distractions on the religious path.
• Why the observe of direct awakening is essentially the most pure observe we will do, and permit that naturalness and easefulness to start to “meditate you.”
• The most typical pitfalls and detours you’re more likely to encounter on the trail of Direct Awakening and acknowledge and keep away from them in order that the grace of pure awakening can stream with out obstruction.

MODULE TWO

An Unshakable Foundation for Awakening:

Cultivating a Fertile Field in Which our Meditation Can Flourish

Like any observe, Direct Awakening rests on a set of fundamentals that collectively create a powerful basis for the deep transformative work we’ll be doing. In this module, you’ll be taught a transparent and easy set of steps to observe every time you observe that may allow you to determine this unshakable basis for the nice work of awakening.

You’ll be taught . . .

• The three foundations of optimum meditation posture that may allow you to observe with out the distractions of pointless bodily pressure or ache. (No, you don’t have to sit down on the ground together with your legs crossed, however it does matter the way you sit and these dos and don’ts can have a big effect on the standard of your consideration!).
• The 5 key environmental elements that help a deep meditation observe, and create a easy “virtual temple” wherever you’re that may assist you to convey your full presence and a spotlight to the observe.
• How to generate a strong intention rooted in “enlightened motivation” prior to every observe session (and why working towards with out this woke up intention typically results in dullness and distraction for even seasoned meditators).
• A easy observe for enhancing your focus that will help you scale back interior distraction and allow you to convey an “easeful focused attention” to your meditation.
• How to depart your “inner critic” on the temple steps with the intention to permit your meditation to unfold naturally with out the distraction of worrying whether or not you’re “doing it right.”

MODULE THREE

A Peace Beyond Understanding:

The Unfathomable Contentment of Being

From daybreak to nightfall, we’re all the time doing one thing. We’re attempting to attain one thing, accomplish one thing, change one thing, make one thing occur. And whereas this engaged orientation to life is important for taking part in and contributing to the world, it tends to obscure a extra elementary actuality: the inherent freedom and fullness of Being itself. In this module, we’ll consciously undertake what would be the final problem for any human being: permitting ourselves to relaxation within the unimaginable contentment and freedom of merely being as we’re.

You’ll be taught . . .

• How to short-circuit the ego’s relentless insistence that there’s something lacking from this second and uncover the profound depth and fullness that’s all the time already right here.
• Why “doing nothing” modifications all the things, and keep away from turning “not doing” into one other, extra delicate type of “doing.”
• How to droop the recurring presumption of lack and limitation lengthy sufficient to make room for the important perfection of your “true nature” to disclose itself.
• How to transcend mere “self acceptance” and uncover the deep peace and contentment of embracing all of actuality as it’s.
• Why taking time to “simply be” is paradoxically some of the transformative issues you are able to do.

MODULE FOUR

Return to Innocence:

Activating the Mystery of Not Knowing

Our tradition locations a premium on information. We are valued and rewarded for what we all know and infrequently afraid to confess it once we don’t. Yet in terms of the thriller of religious awakening, our conceptual information can solely take us to this point. To really enter into the huge, limitless territory of woke up consciousness, we have to be prepared to step past our certainties and enter into an woke up innocence. In this module, you’ll discover ways to “live in the unknown” so {that a} profound power and intelligence which lies perpetually past our comprehension can start to disclose itself in your expertise.

You’ll be taught . . .

• How to open the door to profound intuitive knowledge and spontaneous creativity by letting go of “the need to know.”.
• Why the invention of our “true nature” doesn’t rely on conceptual information and relinquish our attachment to certainty in order that this woke up essence can constantly reveal itself.
• How to meditate deeply even when you have an energetic thoughts by studying disembed your consciousness from the stream of thought.
• Why innocence is extra highly effective than certainty and change into comfy dwelling in “the unknown.”
• How to satisfy every second of meditation–and life–with a “beginner’s mind” and uncover the expansive freedom of not realizing.

MODULE FIVE

Becoming Aware of Awareness:

The Miracle of Self-Recognition

One definition of woke up consciousness is “awareness that is aware of itself.” Although this would possibly sound esoteric, studying how to concentrate on your individual consciousness is actually one of many easiest and most accessible practices of Direct Awakening we’ll discover. The discovery that this woke up consciousness is all the time current brings our seek for freedom outdoors ourself to an finish, liberating us right into a pure state of ever current wakefulness. In this module, we’ll interact a collection of workouts that will help you uncover activate woke up consciousness by listening to the motion of consciousness itself in meditation and in each day life.

You’ll be taught . . .

• Why our recurring identification with ideas and emotions blocks the popularity of woke up consciousness, and launch this behavior and penetrate straight into your woke up nature proper now.
• Why changing into conscious of consciousness itself is the simplest entry level into woke up consciousness.
• three accessible practices for awakening consciousness to itself without having to activate any particular state of consciousness.
• How to acknowledge the important qualities of woke up consciousness and unleash their liberating energy into your life.
• How to straight entry the liberating spaciousness of woke up consciousness even amidst difficult feelings and psychological chatter.

MODULE SIX

Embracing our True Nature:

Awareness Beyond the False Self

We’ve all heard that the “false self” or ego is the first impediment on the religious path. But how can we transfer past this mind-constructed story of self to unleash the extraordinary capacities of our true nature? In this module, we’ll interact a collection of highly effective practices for dissolving the restrictions of our “false self” in order that we will open to the infinite energy and depth of our genuine self.

You’ll be taught . . .

• How to systematically deconstruct the deeply held “false identity structure” that all of us take as a right as who we’re.
• Why letting go of your self is the important thing to totally experiencing the wonder and fullness of Life.
• The key to embracing the novel and liberating reality that “you are not your ego” with the intention to start to just accept the limitless actuality of your important self.
• How to open to the liberty, pleasure and fullness of being alive without having to tie that have again to a slim, limiting concept of self.
• A easy however efficient observe that may allow you to expertise the boundless freedom of your true nature and unleash its in-built “supercapacities” into each space of your life.

MODULE SEVEN

Shattering the Myth of Separation:

The Emergence of Non-Dual Awareness

Most of us are conversant in the thought of “oneness.” For many people, the assumption in our important unity has even change into a brand new faith. But how many people can really say now we have transcended the phantasm of duality? In this module, we’ll dive deep into some of the important and life-changing revelations of Enlightenment–the reality of non-duality, the liberating actuality of no separation.

You’ll be taught . . .

• How to chop via essentially the most highly effective phantasm there’s.
• A potent observe for stepping straight into the deepest a part of who we’re.
• How to expertise the nice liberation of embracing everybody and all the things as an inseparable a part of your self.
• What it means to transcend delicate “spiritual dualism” by studying straight understand the “already enlightened nature” of all that arises.

MODULE EIGHT

Surrendering the Illusion of Control:

The Sacred Art of Letting Go

Most of us have achieved nice issues in life by attempting to regulate and drive occasions and circumstances to work in our favor. But religious awakening is in the end about getting out of the way in which so {that a} better knowledge and energy can start to information and in the end animate our life. To permit the miraculous power of awakening to start to function with out obstruction, we should every discover a solution to give up ourselves to a thriller past our thoughts’s comprehension. In different phrases, now we have to let go of management. In this module, we’ll be taught the delicate artwork of letting go in meditation in order that we will start to be carried by the present of awakening.

You’ll be taught . . .

• How to surrender management of your meditation in order that woke up consciousness can start to “meditate you.”
• What it actually means to give up to a deeper knowledge or larger energy with out giving up your sovereignty over your individual life.
• How to navigate your approach between the polarities of aware effort and unconditional give up.
• Why letting go is the important thing to accessing a profound “inner GPS” to allow you to navigate life with knowledge, readability and unshakable confidence.
• How to let go so deeply that you just’ll by no means need to maintain on once more.

MODULE NINE

Nowhere Else To Go:

Resting within the Explosive Recognition That “This Is It”

The human situation is dominated by an underlying sense of lack. This assumption of insufficiency retains us in an limitless cycle of all the time wanting elsewhere for happiness and success. In this module, we’ll be taught the life-altering meditative observe of seeing the inherent perfection and wholeness of actuality as it’s proper now. When we cease insisting that there’s something lacking from this second, we open the door to the overwhelming revelation of fullness and unimaginable contentment that’s our pure state.

You’ll be taught . . .

• The secret to shifting past a paradigm of lack into the direct recognition of unconditional Fullness and inherent Freedom right here and now.
• Why it’s essential to abandon any funding sooner or later to be able to permit the extraordinary nature of the current to disclose itself.
• How to domesticate the equanimity to remain regular because the uncontainable Truth of wholeness begins to overwhelm your being with its immensity.
• Why lastly accepting the second as it’s is the important thing to a lifetime of unimaginable which means, function and contribution.
• How to let go as soon as and for the entire insistence that you just aren’t sufficient.

MODULE TEN

The Meditation is Already Occurring:

Allowing Awakening to Happen by Itself

As we deepen within the Practice of Direct Awakening, we progressively uncover that the much less effort we make, the extra the method of awakening begins to tackle a lifetime of its personal. In the later phases of observe, we’re studying navigate the subtleties concerned in making room for a mysterious power and intelligence to open up inside us, however with out making the error of changing into fully passive within the course of. In this module, we’ll be taught the fragile artwork of “getting out of our own way” in order that the miracle of awakening can start to have its approach with us, in the end permitting it to permeate each facet of our life.

You’ll be taught . . .

• How to “get out of the way” in meditation in order that the method of awakening can unfold naturally.
• What it means to cease making effort with out sinking into unhealthy passivity or complacency.
• Three highly effective however easy practices for experiencing “effortless meditation” and spontaneous awakening.
• How to entry the humility required to just accept that the method of awakening works higher if you don’t attempt to steer or management it.
• What it actually means to permit meditation to occur by itself.

MODULE ELEVEN

Enlightenment in Action:

The Practice of Direct Awakening in Daily Life

Although the dear time we spend in meditation establishes the muse for a unprecedented, woke up life, all of us spend nearly all of our time outdoors of meditation, actively engaged with the world. What if it have been potential to show our each day life right into a profound religious observe, so that each second may change into a second of awakening? In this module, we’ll take our contemplative observe out of our “virtual temple” and into {the marketplace}, exploring observe Direct Awakening at the same time as we interact with the complexities and challenges of relationships, work, play and inventive pursuits.

You’ll be taught . . .

• Why attempting to carry on to meditative consciousness within the midst of a busy life normally doesn’t work and might really be counterproductive–and the important thing shift that may allow you to show each day life right into a profound subject of awakening.
• How to make use of “engaged inquiry practices” to proceed to deepen your awakening as you progress via your day.
• An energetic method to transformation that lets you defuse, disarm, and deconstruct the ego within the midst of engagement with on a regular basis life.
• How to rework your relationships into dynamic “evolutionary partnerships” that each help and problem you to totally reside your awakening.
• The eight interior postures of enlightened motion that allow woke up consciousness to freely specific itself in all the things you do.

MODULE TWELVE

A Journey That Never Ends:

Activating the Process of Perpetual Awakening

As we change into established within the pure practices of Direct Awakening, the boundary between formal observe and the remainder of life progressively dissolves. This is once we fall in love with meditation. This is once we come dwelling to our True Nature. However, this may also be a fragile transition, as our conditioned tendencies towards unawakened consciousness seemingly nonetheless have momentum. It is subsequently crucial that, at the same time as our awakening turns into extra natural, easeful and pure, we preserve our dedication to a observe routine that may final a lifetime. In our closing module, we’ll discover maintain our formal observe, at the same time as we make room for the pure strategy of awakening to progressively overtake our being.

You’ll be taught . . .

• How to keep away from falling right into a “practice rut” (even one which feels actually good) and what it means to method every second of observe as should you have been working towards for the primary time.
• How to all the time stay open and harmless at the same time as you achieve entry to profound knowledge and perception.
• What it means to repeatedly “take no position” and “hold on to nothing,” regardless of how Enlightened you change into. (Yes, awakening itself ought to handle that, however it doesn’t all the time work that approach, so greatest to not take it as a right).
• How to keep away from religious stagnation by dwelling all the time on the sting of the unknown, following a strategy of perpetual emergence that has no finish.
• The keys to staying grounded in a spot of humility as your religious presence and illumination deepens (particularly as others start to note and be impacted by the ability of your Awakening).