This program will be held online via Zoom. All registrants will receive the link to join the program in their Order Confirmation email. This program will not be recorded. Times are ET.
The Buddha described his understanding of the health, strength, and balance of a practitioner’s spiritual life in aspecific way. This understanding can be useful to those who are brand new to the practices of meditation, virtue, and wisdom, as well as to the most experienced. We know this teaching as the Five Spiritual Faculties (pali: Indriya), including their development and balance. When we learn how these aspects of practice work together, the insights they provide offer us a clear avenue for balancing and strengthening our inner spiritual life.
The five Spiritual Faculties are:
- Confidence/Faith
- Energy/Vigor
- Mindfulness/Awareness
- Collectedness/Unification
- Wisdom/Discernment.
In one who has cultivated all five and who has brought them into balance, they are even known as the Five Powers. And they do create a feeling of profound power, and at times a sense of effortless deepening as we continue walking the path. What’s more, at any phase of practice they help us identify what kind of technique or practice approach will most skillfully return us to the path.
Join us for a 5-week practice group investigating the features of our spiritual life and practice, and exploring how to best respond to what we find through skillful engagement of the Five Spiritual Faculties.
Full and partial scholarships are available. Please submit your requests to office@cambridgeinsight.org at least 72 hours prior to the start of the program.
Closed Captions (CC) for CIMC Programs are generated through Zoom.