Full Simplicity
A 6-week Online Program Exploring Renunciation for Laypeople
with Kim Allen
Four Sundays online – Oct 22, Nov 5, Nov 19, Dec 3, 2023
10:00am-12:00pm Pacific
Life as a layperson committed to the Dharma involves harmonizing the activities of work, family, practice, and community. What is the role in our lay life for the simplicity and contemplation that the Buddha encourages in the suttas? Far from bringing a sense of lack or depletion, skillful simplification (renunciation) creates space for wisdom, care, intuition, and a wholesome sense of fullness to arise.
Full Simplicity is a special 6-week program with Kim Allen, author of Full Simplicity: The Art of Renunciation and Letting Go. Based on the book, this experiential program gives the opportunity to explore and deepen simplicity in one’s life. Participants are expected to engage in specific practices of letting go during this time, as well as sutta contemplation and certain meditation practices. It is like a period of retreat in terms of mental commitment, but work and family activities can co-exist with the practices we will do.
The program includes the following elements:
Participants will discover how renunciation is a vital and valid practice for laypeople, deepen experiential understanding of the process of letting-go, learn how reading, daily life practice, and meditation mutually support the development of the path, and more. Perhaps you will discover the deep joy of simplicity.
Space may be limited.
Application link:
https://forms.gle/v1UPbPTfJ5xujVqSA
10:00am-12:00pm Pacific
Life as a layperson committed to the Dharma involves harmonizing the activities of work, family, practice, and community. What is the role in our lay life for the simplicity and contemplation that the Buddha encourages in the suttas? Far from bringing a sense of lack or depletion, skillful simplification (renunciation) creates space for wisdom, care, intuition, and a wholesome sense of fullness to arise.
Full Simplicity is a special 6-week program with Kim Allen, author of Full Simplicity: The Art of Renunciation and Letting Go. Based on the book, this experiential program gives the opportunity to explore and deepen simplicity in one’s life. Participants are expected to engage in specific practices of letting go during this time, as well as sutta contemplation and certain meditation practices. It is like a period of retreat in terms of mental commitment, but work and family activities can co-exist with the practices we will do.
The program includes the following elements:
- Based on the book Full Simplicity: The Art of Renunciation and Letting Go, by Kim Allen. Must purchase the book in advance of the program.
- Four Sunday meetings online, Oct 22-Dec 3. These span three 2-week segments. Must attend at least 3 of the 4, and full attendance is strongly recommended.
- Daily-life practices of letting go during each of the three segments
- Supportive meditations for each segment
- Sutta readings for each segment
- The Sunday meetings include meditation, teachings, Q&A, and small-group discussion
Participants will discover how renunciation is a vital and valid practice for laypeople, deepen experiential understanding of the process of letting-go, learn how reading, daily life practice, and meditation mutually support the development of the path, and more. Perhaps you will discover the deep joy of simplicity.
Space may be limited.
Application link:
https://forms.gle/v1UPbPTfJ5xujVqSA