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Corso di 10 giorni

Invitation To An Awakened Life

Di Elliott Dacher, M.D.

Cosa imparerai

For millennia, this supreme goal of spiritual awakening and radical aliveness has been portrayed as mysterious and accessible only through repetitive, secluded, and long-term practice. And too often, relaxation techniques have been offered as a quick substitute for a true awakening. However, the essence of profound meditation practice can now be aligned with the sensibilities and capacities of modern times, allowing each of us to experience the possibility of an authentic spiritual awakening. Yes, it takes devotion and practice to sustain and stabilize a full awakening, but it can be experienced right here and right now. With the practice of direct awakening, you can leap directly into the spiritual expanse of consciousness and the ultimate level of human flourishing. In this course, we will utilize the profound “Direct Path Teachings” that point the way to a full awakening. If you choose to take this next and final step in meditative practice, this course is for you. In this course, you will learn: • Why a “busy mind” is not an obstacle to profound meditation • How to dissolve the false self and reveal the natural self • The penetrative wisdom that brings suffering and afflictive emotions to an end • The essential steps in the practice of direct awakening • How to sustain the awakened state in the midst of life’s challenges • How to bring your awakening off the meditation cushion and into your daily life • How to cultivate the 5 major qualities of human flourishing

Elliott Dacher, M.D.

Aquinnah, MA, USA

Elliott Dacher, M.D. is a physician and meditation teacher. He is a frequent presenter and author of numerous books on meditation, health, and healing.

Lezione 1

The Two Great Aims Of Meditation

There are two traditional aims of meditation. The first is cultivating a healthy human life. The second is transcending our limited, day-to-day consciousness to discover our true self and its extraordinary qualities of human flourishing. Our first session begins by focusing on two quick and sure methods of calming the mind. Whenever your mind is out of control, these will be your go-to practices.

Lezione 2

Overcoming The Overactive Mind

A still and stable mind is a pre-requisite for accessing our full human possibilities. Rather than relying exclusively on methods to still the mind, we will now approach overcoming the overactive mind through a wise and subtle understanding of how the mind works.

Lezione 3

Awareness-Based Meditation

In this session, we explore an awareness-based meditation. Pure awareness observes moment-to-moment experience without comment, judgment, or attachment. A small tweak and our attention shifts from a constant conversation with mental activity to simply “watching” the “mind traffic” come and go. We rest in the awareness, rather than random mental activity.

Lezione 4

The Ordinary Self & The True Self

In this session, we will explore the second aim of meditation: the direct experience of our natural authentic self. We begin by becoming aware of the differences between our usual day-to-day “ego-I” and our “deeper natural true self.”

Lezione 5

The True Self Revealed

In this session, we focus on exploring our natural, ever-present, and unchanging true self. How can we miss seeing it? It’s right here, right now. Our long-forgotten home is directly revealed as our true unchanging essence.

Lezione 6

Experiencing Pure Awareness

In the previous session, we learned that our true self is empty of content – empty of past or future thoughts. In this session, we will focus on the second aspect of our true self, pure awareness. This special awareness is untouched by our past. It’s fresh, vital, and able to see with complete clarity and truth.

Lezione 7

The Practice Of Direct Awakening

In the previous session, we experienced the natural self as both empty of content and pristinely aware of moment-to-moment experience. In this session, we will train in the practice of Direct Awakening, exploring how to stabilize that experience of our true self, so it progressively becomes the ground of our life.

Lezione 8

Stabilizing Your True Self

The Direct Awakening practice enables you to go directly to your authentic self. We transcend personal identity and directly awaken to the center of our being. In this session, we will explore how to stabilize our true self when confronted by the strong and tenacious habit of our usual “I.”

Lezione 9

Integration: Bringing It Home

In the previous session, we experienced the practice of Direct Awakening. With this practice, we directly drop into and experience our true selves. In this session, we will explore how to integrate the experience of our true self into daily life, so that our life becomes our practice and our practice becomes our life.

Lezione 10

Human Flourishing Revealed

Why, you may ask, is it is so essential for us to realize the second aim of meditation - learning to live in our authentic self, the center of our being? Because it is only in our authentic self that we can be free of the limitations of our ego-self and have our lives transformed by the qualities of human flourishing. That attainment is the focus of this session.

Recensioni recenti

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Heidi

April 20, 2025

One of f the most authentic down to earth meditation/mindfulness courses and n Insight Timer.

Manfred

August 5, 2023

The course leads very directly into the experience of the true self. He then gives a rich variety of methods for cultivating the state of abiding in the true self. Thank you for the wonderful course.

Fran

April 18, 2023

This resonated so deeply with me. I heard, truly heard for the first time what I needed. I will be repeating these sessions!

Alyssa

March 20, 2023

This was supremely grounding, centering, nurturing!

Fungi

November 21, 2022

Thank you for a great course that helped build on what I have already learnt about being conscious. Each lesson had practices and built on the previous one which was really useful. I will continue to let my life be my practice and to learn and be more present. Thank you Elliott 🙏🏾😊.

Allison

November 13, 2022

Excellent course. I understand things that I questioned before. Thank you so much ✨

Karine

September 30, 2022

A great course to connect with our authentic self, thank you! ✨🙏💕

David

September 19, 2022

The summation of my 10 years of mindfulness meditation. I am grateful for finding this course and have achieved another level of peace and serenity.

Krista

March 28, 2022

Absolutely amazing. . . Next leveling or leveling Up my meditation practice. Took these out into my day and believe this course was transformative to my life. Very effective in ability to teach you how to silence the monkey mind as well as how to drop into a state of stillnessness almost instantly. I've purchased your book to further learn...

Christina

January 10, 2022

An amazing course I have i Repeated this twice now and I’m so pleasantly surprised every time at how deeper you can go.. many thanks 🙏

Nicole

December 12, 2021

I really enjoyed this short course. Having discovered this teacher through a Live Session, I am thrilled with how easy to grasp and apply shedding our ego identity self to being with our true self. Highly recommend and also, some good tracks! Thank you!🕺

Enley

December 9, 2021

I really enjoyed this course. I have experienced something in my past meditations that I can now identify as my true self. I appreciate the tools given and will repeat sessions of this course in the future.

Liz

November 20, 2021

This course made it easier to understand how to quiet my mind. I will repeat!

Lila⚘🕊

October 22, 2021

What can I say about this course? So difficult to put in words how wonderful it is. If you are looking for meditation, look no further. Thank you, Dr. Dacher, for the powerful experiences. May we all attain supreme peace and happiness.

p0sitivefl0w

September 2, 2021