Agenda & Course information

Basic course - 15 days long

Retreat - 10 days long

Weekends or few days for Meditation

Open Teacher Info Link 23rd of December 2011 - 20th of January 2012 Edward Kooij Info1 January 21st - February 16th 2012 Hildegard Huber Info1 8th of March - 31st of March 2012 Asher Gal Info1 1st of April - 25th of April 2012 Hildegard Huber Info1 1st May - 22nd May 2012 Hildegard Huber Info1 23rd May - 13th June 2012 Sandra Luz Cibrian Ramirez Info1 29th June - 29th July 2012 Hildegard Huber Info1 August 10th - August 23rd 2012 Course in Benediktinermonastery in Scheyern with Thanat Chindaporn, Kathryn J. Chindaporn and Hildegard Huber Info5 1st September - 26th September 2012 Hildegard Huber Info1 27th September - 31st October 2012 Asher Gal Info1 Everytime Daily Retreat Info2

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Liability

The meditation teacher and the Dhammacari Vipassana-Meditation Center gem.e.V. cannot accept any liability for physical and psychological damages, which may arise during the participation in the course.

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Breakfast is served at 6:30 a.m., lunch at 11:00 a.m. Drinking water, tea and coffee are available. The food is organic and vegetarian.

During the entire course the participants should commit themselves to adhere to the eight buddhist rules of moral conduct:
1. to abstain from killing any living creature
2. to abstain from taking what is not given
3. to abstain from all sexual activity
4. to abstain from speaking what is not true
5. to abstain from all intoxicants (alcohol, drugs)
6. to abstain from eating solid food after 12 Noon
7. to abstain from sensual entertainment (dancing, singing, reading, listening to the radio), and bodily decoration (jewels, perfume, cosmetics)
8. to abstain from sleeping on high or luxurious beds
The courses are conducted in noble silence.

Each participant is guided by the meditation teacher in daily discussion (report), during which the exercises are given and explained.

Part of each meditation course is one hour working meditation in the house or garden The house has a biological sewage system. For this reason we ask that only biologically soluble soaps, shampoos, etc. are used.

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For those who cannot or do not wish to attend a continuous basic meditation course at Sonnenthal there is the possibility to integrate the course over a period of 12 weeks in their every day life.

Prerequisites/Commitments:
1. willingness to participate for 12 weeks
2. adherence to the 5 Buddhist rules of virtue (not to kill, not to take that which is not given, right speech, no unwholesome sexual activities, renunciation of substances which can cloud the mind)
3. meditate for at least two hours every day
4. once a week report (discussion) with the teacher
5. at the end of the course stay 4 days in the meditation center

Those who have already completed a basic course can do an at-home retreat in eight weeks.

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