Ken Bradford - Abiding in Openness: Absolute Bodhicitta
Date: Sunday, July 2, 2023
Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Cost: Sliding Scale $60 - $90
Registration and Information -juanita@mtstream.org
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Foundational to the path of the Bodhisattva is lojong practice: training the mind & actuating loving-kindness. This involves both gradual practices of accepting and releasing disturbing emotions and mental fixations one by one, and the non-gradual way of recognizing that the solidity of self-fixations are not as solid as they seem. The process of gradually letting go respects the relative truth of everyday, dualistic vision, emphasizing the cultivation of compassion. While non-gradual release respects the non-dualistic truth of empty-openness: absolute bodhicitta, With this awareness, it becomes possible to abide in the ever-fresh wakefulness and spontaneous compassion of natural openness.
This daylong is devoted to the way of openness. It will include teaching, guided meditation, self-inquiry and discussion. It addresses Point 2 of the 7 point mind training, focusing on slogans 2–6.
Recommended text: Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-kindness by Chogyam Trungpa. Edited by Judith Lief.

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