MODULE ONE

Opening to the Miracle of Awakened Consciousness

In order to apply 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 odd consciousness and studying how we will permit this sacred dimension of being to naturally start to disclose itself as none aside from our personal true self.

You’ll be taught . . .

• How to acknowledge your individual “true nature” or “awakened consciousness” and the way to 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 practising with the intention 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 apply of direct awakening is probably the most pure apply we will do, and the way to permit that naturalness and easefulness to start to “meditate you.”
• The commonest pitfalls and detours you’re prone to encounter on the trail of Direct Awakening and the way to acknowledge and keep away from them in order that the grace of pure awakening can move with out obstruction.

MODULE TWO

An Unshakable Foundation for Awakening:

Cultivating a Fertile Field in Which our Meditation Can Flourish

Like any apply, Direct Awakening rests on a set of fundamentals that collectively create a robust 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 apply that can allow you to ascertain this unshakable basis for the good work of awakening.

You’ll be taught . . .

• The three foundations of optimum meditation posture that can allow you to apply with out the distractions of pointless bodily rigidity 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 huge impact on the standard of your consideration!).
• The 5 key environmental elements that assist a deep meditation apply, and the way to create a easy “virtual temple” wherever you might be that can provide help to deliver your full presence and a focus to the apply.
• How to generate a strong intention rooted in “enlightened motivation” prior to every apply session (and why practising with out this woke up intention typically results in dullness and distraction for even seasoned meditators).
• A easy apply for enhancing your focus that will help you scale back interior distraction and allow you to deliver an “easeful focused attention” to your meditation.
• How to depart your “inner critic” on the temple steps to be able 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 at all times doing one thing. We’re making an attempt 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 basic 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 at all times already right here.
• Why “doing nothing” modifications the whole lot, and the way to 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 probably the most 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 sometimes afraid to confess it after we don’t. Yet with regards to the thriller of religious awakening, our conceptual information can solely take us to date. 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 learn to “live in the unknown” so {that a} profound vitality and intelligence which lies eternally 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 upon conceptual information and the way to relinquish our attachment to certainty in order that this woke up essence can constantly reveal itself.
• How to meditate deeply even if in case you have an energetic thoughts by studying the way to disembed your consciousness from the stream of thought.
• Why innocence is extra highly effective than certainty and the way to grow to be snug residing in “the unknown.”
• How to fulfill 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 may sound esoteric, studying how to pay attention to your individual consciousness is in reality one of many easiest and most accessible practices of Direct Awakening we’ll discover. The discovery that this woke up consciousness is at all times 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 workout routines that will help you uncover the way to 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 the way to launch this behavior and penetrate straight into your woke up nature proper now.
• Why changing into conscious of consciousness itself is the best entry level into woke up consciousness.
• three accessible practices for awakening consciousness to itself while not 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 constraints 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 with no consideration 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 unconventional and liberating fact that “you are not your ego” to be able to start to simply accept the limitless actuality of your important self.
• How to open to the liberty, pleasure and fullness of being alive while not having to tie that have again to a slim, limiting thought of self.
• A easy however efficient apply that can 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 grow to be 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 probably the most 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 by probably the most highly effective phantasm there may be.
• A potent apply for stepping straight into the deepest a part of who we’re.
• How to expertise the good liberation of embracing everybody and the whole lot as an inseparable a part of your self.
• What it means to transcend delicate “spiritual dualism” by studying the way to 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 completed nice issues in life by making an attempt 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} higher knowledge and energy can start to information and in the end animate our life. To permit the miraculous vitality of awakening to start to function with out obstruction, we should every discover a strategy 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 increased energy with out giving up your sovereignty over your individual life.
• How to navigate your method between the polarities of conscious 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 at all times trying elsewhere for happiness and achievement. In this module, we’ll be taught the life-altering meditative apply 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 with the intention 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, objective and contribution.
• How to let go as soon as and for all the 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 levels of apply, we’re studying the way to navigate the subtleties concerned in making room for a mysterious vitality 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 method with us, in the end permitting it to permeate each side 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 simply 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 rare, woke up life, all of us spend the vast majority of our time outdoors of meditation, actively engaged with the world. What if it had been attainable to show our each day life right into a profound religious apply, so that each second might grow to be a second of awakening? In this module, we’ll take our contemplative apply out of our “virtual temple” and into {the marketplace}, exploring the way to apply Direct Awakening whilst we interact with the complexities and challenges of relationships, work, play and inventive pursuits.

You’ll be taught . . .

• Why making an attempt 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 can allow you to show each day life right into a profound discipline of awakening.
• How to make use of “engaged inquiry practices” to proceed to deepen your awakening as you progress by your day.
• An energetic strategy to transformation that allows you to defuse, disarm, and deconstruct the ego within the midst of engagement with on a regular basis life.
• How to remodel your relationships into dynamic “evolutionary partnerships” that each assist and problem you to totally dwell your awakening.
• The eight interior postures of enlightened motion that allow woke up consciousness to freely categorical itself in the whole lot you do.

MODULE TWELVE

A Journey That Never Ends:

Activating the Process of Perpetual Awakening

As we grow to be established within the pure practices of Direct Awakening, the boundary between formal apply and the remainder of life progressively dissolves. This is after we fall in love with meditation. This is after we come house 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, whilst our awakening turns into extra natural, easeful and pure, we preserve our dedication to a apply routine that may final a lifetime. In our closing module, we’ll discover the way to maintain our formal apply, whilst 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 strategy every second of apply as when you had been practising for the primary time.
• How to at all times stay open and harmless whilst you acquire entry to profound knowledge and perception.
• What it means to repeatedly “take no position” and “hold on to nothing,” regardless of how Enlightened you grow to be. (Yes, awakening itself ought to deal with that, however it doesn’t at all times work that method, so finest to not take it with no consideration).
• How to keep away from religious stagnation by residing at all times 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).