Ken Bradford - Effortless Mindfulness
Maintaining mindful presence is the basis for becoming master of our mind that is otherwise lost in distractions, forever chattering, wandering and wanting in samsara. On the basis of inhabiting our body, attuning to feelings and being aware of thoughts without being carried away by them, we can more readily open to the luminous presence of the 4th foundation of mindfulness. Understood according to higher Dharma as the foundation underlying all foundations, this orients us toward the nature of the sensing, feeling, thinking mind. Once we are grounded in stable mindfulness, it becomes possible to open that mind to the efflorescence of its self-liberating potential. Such mindful openness is effortless: beyond both the strain of trying and laziness of not trying.
Bio- Ken Bradford  is a contemplative yogin, author and Dharma teacher integrating a wide arc of Buddhist, Dzogchen and psychological thought and practice. His heart teachers include Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, Joseph Goldstein, Ruth Denison and Tsoknyi Rinpoche, among others. Formerly, he maintained a psychotherapy practice in the San Francisco Bay area and was Adjunct Professor at John F. Kennedy University and CIIS. His publications include Opening Yourself: The Psychology and Yoga of Self-liberation (2021); The I of the Other: Mindfulness-Based Diagnosis & the Question of Sanity (2013); and Listening from the Heart of Silence: Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy, Vol. 2 (2007, with John Prendergast); as well as numerous peer-reviewed articles intertwining psychology and spirituality. Website: www.authenticpresence.net
Monday, April 18 from 6:00 to 7:30 pm (PDT)
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Teacher Support: This evenings teacher, Ken Bradford, will offer the donations received from tonight’s session to the Ukrainian humanitarian aide NGO, Voices of Children, toward therapeutic and psychosocial services for displaced and traumatized Ukrainian children and families. Mountain Stream will match the donation - thank you Ken and thank you Sangha!
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