Online: Metaphors of Mindfulness
with Andrew Olendzki
Saturday, November 14th, 2020 | 10:00am – 1:00pm ET
The Buddha taught in a pre-literate age to a diverse population. In addition of speaking slowly and clearly, repeating his phrasing often, organizing his teachings into lists, and telling vivid stories, he also made liberal use of metaphor.
In this program we will look closely at some of the images, similes, and other literary devices used in the Pali Canon, and in some later literature, to define and describe the practice of mindfulness. We will pause from time to time to examine some of these images experientially as an aid to our own meditation practice.
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Teacher(s)
Andrew Olendzki
Andrew Olendzki is currently a professor at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is the chair of its pioneering graduate program in Mindfulness Studies. Trained as a Buddhist scholar in both Sanskrit and Pali textual studies, he has also been a lifelong practitioner, serving as the first executive director of the Insight Meditation Society and then at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies for more than two decades. He has created a number of online learning programs, including the Integrated Dharma Program and the daily DhammaWheel (with Tricycle magazine); most recently he has developed BuddhaWord, an online meditation app based on the texts of the Pali Canon. He has published extensively, including the books Unlimiting Mind (Wisdom 2010) and Untangling Self (Wisdom 2016).