Inner Awareness

• 431DSetting Boundaries

  Develop individual practice commitments that support group contemplative experience, analyze the relationship between personal boundaries and collective practice, and implement discipline containers that enhance both individual focus and community harmony.
• 439DRight Motivation

  Investigate the layered nature of personal motivation by uncovering hidden drives beneath surface intentions; evaluate how cultural influences, peer pressure, and personal insecurities affect your motivations; and implement systematic approaches for aligning your actions with wholesome intentions while recognizing the complexity of human motivation.
• 439CRight Motivation

  Examine Buddhist biographical stories to identify how right motivation led to beneficial outcomes and wrong motivation led to suffering. Compare the motivations of different Buddhist figures and analyze how their intentions shaped their actions and legacy. Create detailed personal narratives about times when changing your motivation transformed a difficult situation.
• 406DLoving-Kindness

  Design loving-kindness ceremonies that generate positive emotions and strengthen group bonds, participate in structured metta practices that cultivate both personal happiness and interpersonal trust, and establish sustained loving-kindness disciplines that support emotional regulation and secure relationship patterns.
• 430DFour Noble Truths Overview

  Examine personal and social sources of suffering through contemplative inquiry; evaluate how understanding the four truths transforms relationships with disappointment, conflict, and change; and implement mindfulness practices that cultivate emotional resilience and compassionate response to others’ pain.
• 401DDhyana: Meditation Techniques

  Practice and analyze meditation techniques through multiple intelligence frameworks (bodily-kinesthetic through movement meditation, musical-rhythmic through chanting, visual-spatial through visualization); evaluate how different approaches serve various temperaments and learning styles; and synthesize understanding by creating inclusive meditation programs for diverse groups.
• 411DRight Speech

  Develop comprehensive personal practice integrating right speech with the broader eightfold path, establish advanced contemplative rituals for speech awareness, and create structured approaches to speech-based self-examination that support ongoing ethical development and mindfulness cultivation.
• 422DThe Paramita of Dana/Generosity

  Design personal experiments to test how generous actions affect mental states and relationships. Analyze the relationship between attachment and giving through systematic self-observation. Develop strategies for overcoming internal barriers to generosity.
• 410DMindful Listening Practices

  Generate therapeutic-level listening skills for holding space during difficult conversations; test approaches for listening across strong differences of opinion without becoming defensive; and design mentoring programs where older students teach empathetic communication skills to younger peers.