Ways of Looking: A 6-week Meditation Course

What if your deepest happiness and freedom had less to do with what happens, and more to do with how you're relating to what happens?
 

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes” ~ Marcel Proust

This six-week meditation course, suitable for experienced meditators as well as beginners, will help you to look at the world through new eyes. The Buddha, like Proust, knew the importance of this. At the heart of his teachings is this subtle and surprising insight alluded to above. He found that how we relate to our experience is actually far more significant in determining how happy or sad or stressed we feel, than the experience itself.

Over the duration of this course we will explore this idea in depth, using the conceptual framework of ‘ways of looking’ as developed by the late meditation master Rob Burbea. We will pick up and practise with a different lens each week and pay attention to the effect it has on our perception of the world - for instance, whether it brings more ease, freedom, and joy into the experience. Each session will include a short talk, some meditation instruction, a guided practice, and plenty of time for questions and comments.

Between sessions there will also be an encouragement to continue playing with these various ways of looking, both formally in meditation and more informally during daily life. This is entirely optional, but will allow you to make the most of the course.

Dana

Mark is part of a Buddhist tradition in which teachings are offered freely, within a culture of ‘dana’ or generosity. For that reason there is no fee for this course. If you would like to support Mark in his livelihood, and support the continued free sharing of these teachings, he will gratefully accept any donations, large or small. Those not able to contribute financially are just as welcome onto this course as those who are.

Donations can be made via PayPal to markovland @ gmail.com, or if you'd prefer to do a bank transfer please just email Mark on that address and he can give you his details. Donations may be given at any time - before, during, or after the course. 
 

Course Dates

All sessions will be held 7-9pm GMT

Monday 13th Feb
Monday 20th Feb
Monday 27th Feb
Monday 6th March
Monday 13th March
Monday 20th March
 

Mark Ovland

Mark began practising meditation in 2008. Since then he has lived and worked in various monasteries and retreat centres around India and the UK, and spent a further two years on intensive silent retreat. He was a close student of meditation master Rob Burbea and was blessed to have lived with and assisted Rob during the last years of his life.

Aside from offering retreats and teachings in traditional Buddhist settings, Mark has also taught in schools, universities, prisons, and the workplace. In 2013 he co-founded Freely Given Retreats, a charity in the UK that runs weeklong silent meditation retreats on a donation basis. He believes that no one should be excluded from these opportunities and teachings due to a simple lack of money.

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