Zen Meditation for Modern Living Course
Level: Practitioner level 3
By successfully completing this course, you will:
- Gain skills and knowledge to practice Zen Meditation for Modern Living – graduates of this course can also obtain professional liability insurance
- Become a Registered BSY Zen Meditation Practitioner
- Be awarded the professional BSY Diploma
- Be eligible to become a member of AHCP (Association of Complementary Practitioners)
You can study this course from the comfort of your own home; in your own time and at your own pace; with helpful support and encouragement from our friendly tutors.
Course overview
Zen is the Japanese word for ‘dhyana’ in Sanskrit, meaning meditation. Zen emphasises sitting, moving and walking meditations as the very best way to gain awareness, to see the real you and to see life as it really is. This course will help you gain an awareness of life, awareness of difficulties and blessings, to change your way of looking at everyday life and ultimately change your mind and your thought patterns. It is recommended that this course be used as an adjunct to Meditation Teacher.
Syllabus
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Lesson One
- Introduction
- ‘What is It?’
- Brief History
- The Mind
- Soil in the Jar
- Keeping the Water Clear
- Who are You?
- Reality and Perception
- Infinity
- The Truth
- Wearing Sandals
- Not the Product, But the Process
- Changing Perceptions
- Finally
- Introduction
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Lesson Two
- ‘Don’t Just Do Something – Stand There!’
- Introduction
- Baka
- The Need to Practise
- Preparing for Meditation
- Doubt Statements
- Dealing with the Five Hindrances
- Boredom
- Everything Is Within
- Learn to Dance on a Shifting Carpet
- What is the Mind?
- A Meditation Method
- Finally
- ‘Don’t Just Do Something – Stand There!’
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Lesson Three
- Diving More Deeply!
- Just Words!
- A Meditation Method (Part Two)
- Thinking Deeply
- Everyday Life
- Mind Exploring is Good for You!
- Why Mantra?
- And Finally
- Diving More Deeply!
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Lesson Four
- Extending the Practice
- Conscious Living
- Instincts/Intuition
- Dealing with Problems
- Walking in the Open Air – Observing Nature
- Wherever You Are, There You Are
- What is This? What is It?
- Daily Rules/Daily Routines
- Remembering, Repeating, Working Through
- Zen is Practical
- No Attachments
- Slow Down
- Our Fears
- Silence
- And Finally
- Extending the Practice
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Lesson Five
- Extending the Practice (Continued)
- Stillness in Movement – Movement in Stillness
- Meditation is Stillness – Zen is Stillness
- Just Be-ing!
- Listen to Life
- Coffee Break!
- Make Emptiness your Friend
- Let it Be
- Have a Moment (Second Coffee Break)
- Becoming a Peacock
- And Finally
- Extending the Practice (Continued)
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Lesson Six
- Nothing is too Wonderful to be True!
- Life Happens – Deal with It!
- Experience Comes from Conscious Living
- Heavy Luggage
- Losing the Labels
- Awareness
- Nothing is too Wonderful to be True!
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Lesson Seven
- Facing Up to your Greatest Enemies
- Experience Is All
- Perception Problems
- The Conditioned Mind
- Who is to Blame?
- Using Your Mind
- Problem-Solving
- Quality of Life
- Patterns
- The Zen Way
- Facing Up to your Greatest Enemies
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Lesson Eight
- Just Imagine
- And Finally
- Just Imagine
Practical training
No practical training is required to complete this course.
Prerequisites
An advisory pre-requisite is Meditation Teacher.
View our Meditation Teacher course.
Level
On successful completion of this course you will have received professional training at level 3. This is ideal if you wish to start a practice, or expand a career. Graduates of this course wishing to start their own practice can also obtain professional liability insurance.
Certification
Upon enrolment you receive your first course lessons.
You can study in your own time, at your own pace and from the comfort of your own home. If you have any questions, or would like feedback or encouragement about your course or your studies then you can contact our friendly tutors by phone, email or post.
At the end of each lesson are a set of questions. Completing these can aid your learning and help you master each step before moving on to the next. Your next lesson will then arrive for you to continue when it suits you. This allows us to continually assess understanding and competence of the subject.
Having progressed through each lesson you can take your final examination at home, and at a date and time that suits you. Then, on successful completion you will be awarded your BSY certificate.
Enrol now for £55.
To enrol by phone, please call our friendly course advisors on 01409 220 400.
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