This program will be held in-person at our Center in Cambridge.
The Ānāpānasati Sutta is one of the most important suttas in the Pali Canon of early Buddhism. In this foundational teaching, the Buddha lays out a comprehensive series of sixteen sequential steps for using full awareness of breathing as a complete path to liberation.
This program is appropriate for those who are already familiar with the sixteen steps outlined in the Ānāpānasati Sutta and who have spent some time practicing them with a teacher's guidance. (For an introduction to the Ānāpānasati Sutta, please join Jim Austin at CIMC for Sixteen Steps to Awakening: Introduction to Mindfulness of Breathing starting September 11th).
Each session will include instructions, practice, and time for reflections, questions, and discussion. Over the course of our time together, we will move from the formal practice of the sixteen steps into an integrated practice of working with the breath in both formal sitting practice and in our everyday life.
Deepening our understanding and experience of the practice instructions in this sutta, we see for ourselves how they can form the core of a rich and fruitful meditation practice and support our progress on the path toward happiness and inner freedom.
Full and partial scholarships are available up to 72 hours before the start of the program.
Jim Austin has been practicing insight meditation since 1975. He regularly teaches various programs at CIMC: the Beginners Drop-In, the Parents Sangha, and the Little Buddhas Sangha. For a number of years he offered workshops and retreats at the Insight Meditation Center of Newburyport and also assisted Larry Rosenberg on his weeklong retreats at the IMS by providing mindful yoga sessions. Formerly he was the Senior Teacher at eMindful for over 10 years, leading online mindfulness courses. Anapanasati has been his primary practice.