Mindfulness of self and world

[FeeHutch]

Hi Guys, I think you both bring up some good points and even whilst offering the course I had my doubts so how about we leave it for now and see what Fee can come up with. Would people mind if I then put up our courses once a month onto the forum. If you are what would be the best page to put it on. For your information we are a not for profit Community Interest company called and our website in mindfulnesscic.co.uk.

thanks, Suryacitta

Hello
I was thinking more about whether this sort of post would sit best in the Beginning forums or elsewhere rather than specifically about whether more online course content would work.
What I could do is change the sub forum 'Finding Peace In A Frantic World' to something like 'Mindfulness Courses' and your monthly posts might find a home there?

[BioSattva]

That sounds like a good idea Fee.

[BioSattva]

Our motivations are not about satisfying our own needs and not about proving anything to ourselves or others in any way.

Indeed - I see charity as the core trait at the heart of healthy human society. It seems to go all way back to our early cooperative survival practices - a group of hunter-gatherers walking in a line combing a forest for food like a human net and one of them finds a bunch of bananas. The discoverer instinctively and charitably shares the bananas out in the knowledge that the next time they go looking for food someone else may happen across some bananas and the charity will need to be reciprocated. Obtaining resources is just luck, and when obtained within a social survival strategy, then any lack of selfless sharing or charity poisons the society.

In our complex societies it's very easy to forget the 'net' which is connecting us all to one another existentially due to various walls and sectors being isolated.

When we live from the self-centred mode we are living a natural life.

Maybe you intended to say life-centred here, rather than self-centred?

[FeeHutch]

I have edited the subforum so it is now called Online Mindfulness Courses.
We can keep tinkering with it as needed.

[Gareth]

I didn't think you were pouring cold water at all Steve, just giving your opinions which is welcomed here. I'm not too sure either how we will eventually get this to work, but we will get it to work, I'm confident of that. With the standard of technology that is around these days, we maybe able to run virtual mindfulness courses in Google hangouts or Skype. Who knows? There is defintely mileage in this idea though. We will find our way by trying different things and seeing what works.