Life With Full Attention
Eight-Week Mindfulness Course
Starts Thursday 1st May 2025, 7.30pm – 9.45pm
Led by Sadayasihi
We often feel like we’re not living life to the full. It’s as if instead of directly experiencing life we’re lost in a cacophony of thought, anxiety and chaos.
The Buddha’s mindfulness teachings are far more than a way of coping with the stress of the modern world. They are a direct way of seeing deeply into the truth of life and living from that. They are a way of living life fully and richly – a rich engagement of body, heart, and mind with life as it actually is.
On this eight-week course you’ll learn, in a step-by-step way, how to practise the Buddha’s four fundamental dimensions of mindfulness, as well as how to apply them to the life you’re actually living.
It will be based around the highly regarded book Life with Full Attention: A Practical Course in Mindfulness by Maitreyabandhu, and a copy is included as part of the course.
As well as the course, we are offering a free companion app for the course, to help you in your practice of mindfulness.
Each week has an introduction to the theme of the week, a practical exercise, a guided meditation and a poem.
More details are here.
Over the eight weeks we will cover:
Week 1: Introductions, exploring day-to-day mindfulness.
Week 2: Mindfulness of the body and its Movements.
Week 3: Mindfulness of vedanā / feeling-tone.
Week 4: Mindfulness of citta – mind.
Week 5: Mindfulness of dhammas – bringing the teaching to mind.
Week 6: Mindfulness of art, objects and nature.
Week 7: Mindfulness of other people.
Week 8: Mindfulness of Reality.
When
Starts Thursday 1st May 2025, 7.30pm – 9.45pm | For eight weeks
Where
Dublin Buddhist Centre
Unit 5, Liberty Corner
James Joyce Street
Dublin, D01 N5H6
Sadayasihi learned to meditate in 2007 in the Dublin Buddhist Centre while she was training to be a solicitor, having had an interest in Buddhism since she was a teenager.
She was ordained in 2016 and is current chair of the charity that runs the DBC, as well as leading a study group and teaching classes.
This course is for anyone who wants to engage with a deeper understanding and practice of Buddhist mindfulness.
You don’t have to be a Buddhist to gain from this course; you don’t have to be particularly ‘spiritual’. All you need is curiosity, a desire to learn, and a willingness to put what you learn into practice.
Cost
We do tiered pricing, depending on the circumstances.
€175 waged
€150 low-waged
€95 unwaged
€80 for under-25s