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Q - is this Insight Meditation Correspondence Course absolutely the same as the one I see offered in other places for $198.00? Why are you able to undersell Amazon etc? I am very, very serious about doing this course and want to make sure that I am getting the entire package, with all components and instruction in it's most current form.

A - I completely understand your wise concern. The Insight Meditation Correspondence Course I sell is the brand new, official course. I get it new, directly from the publisher, "Sounds True" and it comes to me sealed with the course workbook on the outside. (Beware if a store is selling just the tapes!) It is the original course you would buy from the publisher. The instructions for connecting with your personal teacher are inside the course. You can correspond by mail, email or audio cassette. I have been selling Sounds True products online to happy customers for the past 10 years. As far as the savings, I have very low overhead so I can pass savings and careful service on to you. Hope that helps!
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Insight Meditation Correspondence Course

When you seek to live a spiritual life, what matters most is not what you know, but the actions you take. How do you best embody the spiritual principles that uplift you and those whose lives you touch? On Insight Meditation, you will learn one of the world's great contemplative practices, as it was taught by the Buddha himself and then passed "candle to candle" for over 2,500 years.

Based on the curriculum developed at the Insight Meditation Society's retreat center in Barre, Massachusetts, this audio correspondence course is presented by IMS co-founders Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein, who are among the West's most respected meditation teachers. Students will learn with a qualified meditation instructor how to establish and sustain a daily meditation practice. As each lesson unfolds and the principles of mindful living are revealed, students learn to see past the illusion of life's obstacles and move toward an awakened mind state - the true freedom we seek to achieve. Now you can experience this rich and sacred retreat environment in your own home, with these same masterful instructors.

You will receive a complete 90-page workbook created expressly for the Insight Meditation course. Organized to accompany the audio curriculum, your workbook features exercises that you complete and return to your insight meditation instructor. Easy to follow and a pleasure to learn from, this unique resource comes with your 24 audio CDs - it is available nowhere else. Over 17 hours of personal instruction in daily meditation practice.

INSIGHT CURRICULUM:

LESSON 1:
The insight tradition; how happiness arises; the power of mindfulness; the five precepts for ethical living; six aspects of correct posture; eight breathing exercises.

LESSON 2:
"Bare attention' and awareness in the present moment; working with thoughts during practice; traditional walking meditation — "mindfulness in motion"; seven walking meditations.

LESSON 3:
The five hindrances to mindfulness; understanding attachment to desire and aversion; "working with Pain."

LESSON 4:
Working with sleepiness, restlessness, and doubt; the antidotes to the hindrances; Mara, the tempter; four exercises for working with hindrances.

LESSON 5:
Concepts and reality; myths of time, place, and self; six exercises for mindful eating; the roots of mind; "wrong view."

LESSON 6:
The truth of suffering; painful experience, change, and conditionally; seven exercises for working with emotional states; the Four Noble Truths.

LESSON 7:
How we create delusion; "wise attention" and freedom from delusion; "clear seeing"; working with thoughts and images; exercises for recognizing delusion.

LESSON 8:
The awakened mind; karma defined; intention and action; self and karma; the Four Heavenly Abodes; the Six Realms of Existence; seven exercises for working with intention.

LESSON 9:
Equanimity as a spiritual force; conditioning, pleasure, and pain; the Eight Vicissitudes; the Six Sense Doors; eight exercises for working with pleasant and unpleasant feelings.

LESSON 10:
Saddha; the nature of faith and wisdom; the five spiritual powers; testing faith yourself; "Big Mind" exercise.

LESSON 11:
Metta,or lovingkindness; distortion of "self" and "other"; strength without anger; benefits of lovingkindness; eight metta exercises.

LESSON 12:
Bringing meditative awareness into your everyday life; lessons of daily sitting; the three fields of training; eight exercises for taking practice to the world.

 

Editorial Reviews:

From AudioFile - Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein, co-founders of the Insight Meditation Society, teach the Buddhist vipassana, or insight meditation. This comprehensive audio correspondence course, the first of its kind, is designed to be completed within a year. Side 1 of each tape contains a talk about a specific aspect of meditation practice, while side 2 follows with a guided meditation. Arranged in a naturally flowing sequence, tapes should be listened to in order. Purchasers of INSIGHT MEDITATION are entitled to a year of guidance and support from a personal meditation instructor. The accompanying workbook contains lesson reviews, a glossary, exercises, and questions for the student. A student may submit answers to the instructor by regular mail, email, or --appropriately-- by audiocassette. Students can expect a helpful, attentive, and timely response. Listeners who participate fully in the course can expect to develop a strong foundation in daily meditation practice. C.S. © AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Ingram - Based on a curriculum developed at the Insight Meditation Society's retreat center in Massachusetts, this audio correspondence course is presented by two IMS cofounders, who are among the West's most respected meditation teachers. This program includes 12 sequential lessons on tape--18 hours of classical teachings, practices, and meditations; an 88-page workbook with interactive exercises, resources, and articles; and a year of one-on-one guidance and support from an instructor.

About the Author - Sharon Salzberg has studied and practiced meditation with Burmese, Indian, and Tibetan teachers for the past 25 years. She is a co-founder of the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies and the Insight Meditation Society, where she lives and teaches. She is the author of Lovingkindness, A Heart as Wide as the World, and (on audio) Lovingkindness Meditation and A Heart as Wide as the World.

Joseph Goldstein studied meditation in India and Burma before cofounding the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Barre, Massachusetts. His books include The Experience of Insight; Insight Meditation; and (with Jack Kornfield) Seeking the Heart of Wisdom. A resident guiding teacher at IMS, he also teaches throughout the United States and abroad.

Excerpted from Insight Meditation : An In-Depth Correspondence Course by Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein. Copyright © 1998. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved

"The point of practice is to develop a mind so open that it can experience great pleasure and great pain with spaciousness, with compassion, with awareness, with energy."

Book Description When you seek to live a spiritual life, what matters most is not what you know, but the actions you take. How can you best embody the spiritual principles that uplift you and those around you? On Insight Meditation, you will learn one of the world's great contemplative practices - as it was taught by the Buddha himself - and then passed "candle to candle" for 2,500 years. Based on the curriculum developed at the Insight Meditation Society's retreat center in Barre, Massachusetts, this audio correspondence course is presented by IMS cofounders Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein, who are among the West's most respected meditation teachers. Students will learn with a qualified instructor how to establish and sustain a daily meditation practice. As each lesson unfolds, students learn to see past the illusion of life's obstacles and move toward an awakened mind-state - the true freedom we seek to achieve. Now you can experience this rich and sacred retreat environment in your own home, with these same masterful instructors. Insight Meditation presents: 18 hours of classical teachings, practices, and meditations. an 88-page workbook with interactive exercises, resources, articles, and much more. One-on-one guidance from your personal instructor. From great mystics to those in chronic pain; from political leaders to spiritual seekers; from bus drivers to CEOs - those who have developed a personal meditation practice confirm its power to enrich every aspect of daily life. For most of us who have tried meditation, the question has always been: "How do I keep going?" Insight Meditation offers the answer to this question: 12 months of personal guidance and support as you illuminate for yourself the way to freedom, one moment at a time. With 88-page workbook.

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