with Michael Hewett
22 March - 12 April
4-Week Series
Wednesdays at 6:00pm CT (2 Hours)
Mahamudra (the Great Seal) offers six powerful insights into the nature of our inner and outer realities. You will gain the knowledge & skills to steadily, clearly, and vividly fathom the two great questions of humankind: ‘Who am I’ and ‘What is my purpose here'.
His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama describes this practice ‘With Mahamudra techniques we shift our focus from the content of our experience to the process of our experience itself and, from that point of view, understand the relation between our mind and the reality we experience.’
In this course we will cover:
What is Mahamudra, its origin & development across the six schools of Buddhism
What have these six schools proven about the nature of reality & the self?
The Six Worldviews & their profound benefits to everyday life.
The Two Truths: Distinguishing between relative & ultimate reality
What does self-existence imply versus the lack of it?
How do their proofs build upon one another to profoundly help both our daily life & spiritual life?
How to analyze the nature of an outer object.
How to apply this analysis on the self in order to transcend & include the ego.
The intellectual, emotional & relational benefits of practicing these six meditations.
The profound compatibility of these meditations in psychedelic space.
If you cannot make it live (or wish to revisit the material), a recording will be made available within a few days after the session. Live attendance is preferred on Mind Oasis and is part of what we call our special sauce!
Michael is a musician of 30 years and a Yogi of over 20 years. Michael has over 2,000 hours of Yoga trainings in Tibetan Buddhist Sutra & Tantra (open & secret traditions), Vinyasa, Ashtanga, ISHTA and Shamatha (mind training). Michael has completed four 30-day solitary Tantric retreats and 10 vipassana retreats. He guides people on their individual paths of growth and evolution.
His classes, workshops, and retreats weave together dharma, asana, meditation, and live music to guide participants along their paths with scholarship and artistry. He is the founder and director of Vessel Academy and a graduate of Berklee College of Music.
