Feeling your way to liberation

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  • May 07

    Tuesday May 7, 2024 - Tuesday Jun 11, 2024

     (Start time Tue 18:00 BST - End time Tue 20:00 BST)
    Online
    Bernat Font
    • £139.00 excl.
    6 consecutive Tuesday evenings from 6-8pm UK time on May 7, 14, 21, 28 and June 4 and 11.
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Description

Price Options:

Standard rate: £139

Supporter rate: £149

Theme: 

In Buddhist psychology, 'vedanā' refers to the pleasure-pain aspect of anything we experience - physical or mental. This concept, often translated as 'feeling tone', is as simple as it is fascinating. Vedanā guides our attention and conditions our behaviour and automatic patterns, but it can also be used to free ourselves from such reactivity – helping us cultivate calm and insight.

Bernat Font is an experienced dharma teacher and has recently finished his doctoral thesis on this topic. During these six online sessions, he will take some of his findings and explore their relevance for practitioners, suggesting meditation exercises and daily life reflections. Thus, while drawing on theory, this is not primarily a study course, but one which bridges study and practice - with an emphasis on the latter according to the participants' interests and needs.

Each session will include discussion on the theme and practice suggestions from the previous week, presentation of the new material, and a short meditation.

Sessions (subject to change, like everything):

1. The temperature of experience
2. Where do emotions fit into the satipaṭṭhānas?
3. Vedanā & perception
4. Using vedanā for liberation: countering and transforming
5. Different types of pleasure
6. Noticing what's absent

Event Details

Schedule: 

6 consecutive Tuesday evenings from 6-8pm UK time on May 7, 14, 21, 28 and June 4 and 11.

Suitability:

Open to all - new and experienced practitioners alike.

 Cost:

  • The price includes a fee for the teachers, no additional dana will be requested. 
  • Possibility to pay a supporter rate by selecting the option available on the registration form. (If you would like to pay this rate, please tick the 'yes' box under the supporter rate heading on the first page of the registration form.)
  • If you are unable to afford the our standard course rate, please contact us here. We will make sure that no one is turned away because of lack of funds.

Teachers:

BERNAT FONT met the dharma at a very young age and has practiced in Europe, India and Myanmar, gradually putting aside his artistic career. He completed his dharma teacher training with Bodhi College in 2022, mentored by Stephen Batchelor, and has a PhD in Buddhist Studies. He founded the dharma organisation 'Espai Sati' in Barcelona, serves the LGBTQIA+ community, and teaches in English, Catalan and Spanish