Mind, Reactive and Creative
Mind, Reactive and Creative
This six-week course is based upon Bhante's classic lecture. It unfolds his way of looking at our minds as operating reactively or creatively in every moment, and how we can see Enlightenment as a state of ever-increasing creativity.
This six-week course is based upon Bhante's classic lecture. It unfolds his way of looking at our minds as operating reactively or creatively in every moment, and how we can see Enlightenment as a state of ever-increasing creativity.
Teachers’ Notes
These notes cover all six weeks of the course
COURSE OVERVIEW
TEACHERS’ NOTES
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Mind, Reactive and Creative eBook
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RATNAGUNA ON MIND, REACTIVE AND CREATIVE
In this video Ratnaguna shares some reflections on the theme. The contents here are not necessarily directly related to leading the course, but provide a fascinating source of material for further study, either with your team or as an addition to the existing course. See the course notes for more details.
FURTHER REFLECTIONS
Other Resourses
Here you will find resources related to the material. Many of the talks listed here are highlighted in the teacher’s notes to help with specific sections of the course.
Mind: Reactive and Creative (1967)
Talk by Bhante
Talk by Bhante
Mind Reactive / Mind Creative (2018)
Six talks by various Order Members
Six talks by various Order Members
The Symbolism of the Tibetan Wheel of Life (1972)
Bhante
The Six Realms (2018)
Paramabandhu – Video
Paramabandhu – Video
Teachers’ Notes
These notes cover all six weeks of the course
COURSE OVERVIEW
TEACHERS’ NOTES
Download
Download
Mind, Reactive and Creative eBook
We hope to have these booklets printed and available for sale in your bookshop soon.
In the meantime, please use and distribute this booklet for your course participants. Please use the Alaya link for distribution, rather than this page.
PDF
Download
Download
RATNAGUNA ON MIND, REACTIVE AND CREATIVE
In this video Ratnaguna shares some reflections on the theme. The contents here are not necessarily directly related to leading the course, but provide a fascinating source of material for further study, either with your team or as an addition to the existing course. See the course notes for more details.
FURTHER REFLECTIONS
Other Resourses
Here you will find resources related to the material. Many of the talks listed here are highlighted in the teacher’s notes to help with specific sections of the course.
Mind: Reactive and Creative (1967)
Talk by Bhante
Talk by Bhante
The Symbolism of the Tibetan Wheel of Life (1972)
Bhante
Mind Reactive / Mind Creative (2018)
Six talks by various Order Members
The Six Realms (2018)
Paramabandhu – Video
Sample Blurb for Publicity
Mind, Reactive and Creative
A practical course in creativity
One of the Buddha’s key insights is that our state of mind conditions our thoughts, which in turn condition our actions, and thereby our world.
This course explores the idea that the mind operates in two very different ways, and that the spiritual life is essentially a movement from one to the other. We have the choice of being either reactive or creative, not just once, but at every moment. We will investigate just what that means in our own lives, looking at ways in which we can become less reactive and more creative, with a combination of teaching, discussion, meditation and practical exercises.
The path to Enlightenment, then, is one of ever-increasing creativity, and we look at one of the Buddha’s teachings in which he describes a sequence of ever-increasing creative states of mind, all the way to Enlightenment.
Participants will receive the book Mind, Reactive and Creative as part of the course.
Mind, Reactive and Creative
A practical course in creativity
One of the Buddha’s key insights is that our state of mind conditions our thoughts, which in turn condition our actions, and thereby our world.
This course explores the idea that the mind operates in two very different ways, and that the spiritual life is essentially a movement from one to the other. We have the choice of being either reactive or creative, not just once, but at every moment. We will investigate just what that means in our own lives, looking at ways in which we can become less reactive and more creative, with a combination of teaching, discussion, meditation and practical exercises.
The path to Enlightenment, then, is one of ever-increasing creativity, and we look at one of the Buddha’s teachings in which he describes a sequence of ever-increasing creative states of mind, all the way to Enlightenment.
Participants will receive the book Mind, Reactive and Creative as part of the course.
Sample Blurb for Publicity
Mind, Reactive and Creative
A practical course in creativity
One of the Buddha’s key insights is that our state of mind conditions our thoughts, which in turn condition our actions, and thereby our world.
This course explores the idea that the mind operates in two very different ways, and that the spiritual life is essentially a movement from one to the other. We have the choice of being either reactive or creative, not just once, but at every moment. We will investigate just what that means in our own lives, looking at ways in which we can become less reactive and more creative, with a combination of teaching, discussion, meditation and practical exercises.
The path to Enlightenment, then, is one of ever-increasing creativity, and we look at one of the Buddha’s teachings in which he describes a sequence of ever-increasing creative states of mind, all the way to Enlightenment.
Participants will receive the book Mind, Reactive and Creative as part of the course.
Mind, Reactive and Creative
A practical course in creativity
One of the Buddha’s key insights is that our state of mind conditions our thoughts, which in turn condition our actions, and thereby our world.
This course explores the idea that the mind operates in two very different ways, and that the spiritual life is essentially a movement from one to the other. We have the choice of being either reactive or creative, not just once, but at every moment. We will investigate just what that means in our own lives, looking at ways in which we can become less reactive and more creative, with a combination of teaching, discussion, meditation and practical exercises.
The path to Enlightenment, then, is one of ever-increasing creativity, and we look at one of the Buddha’s teachings in which he describes a sequence of ever-increasing creative states of mind, all the way to Enlightenment.
Participants will receive the book Mind, Reactive and Creative as part of the course.