Abhidhamma Study Retreat (9/4-7/2015)


2015.9.4 abhidhamma

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2015 SCHEDULE

Friday

9/4

Saturday

9/5

Sunday

9/6

Monday

9/7

4:50 am

Wake Up

5:30-5:45 am

Morning service

5:45–6:25 am

Meditation

6:30–7:15 am

Breakfast

7:15–8:00 am

Clean Up, Walking

8:15 –9:00 am

Meditation

9:00–10:00 am

Lecture & discussion

Session 2

Lecture & discussion

Session 7

Lecture & discussion

Session 12

10:00-10:20 am

Tea break

10:20–11:20  am

Lecture & discussion

Session 3

Lecture & discussion

Session 8

Lecture & discussion

Session 13

11:30 am –12 pm

Lunch

12:10–1:00 pm

Clean Up

1:00–1:30 pm

Rest & personal study

1:40–2:10 pm

Meditation

2:10–3:10 pm

Lecture & discussion

Session 4

Lecture & discussion

Session 9

Comprehensive

Q & A session

Session 14

3:10–3:30 pm

Tea Break

Sharing of merits

3:30–4:15 pm

Lecture & discussion

Session 5

Lecture & discussion

Session 10

Taking 3 Refuges
& Precepts*

3:30–3:45

4:20–5:00 pm

Meditation

Clean up & depart

3:45–4:30

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5:00–5:30 pm

Registration

Evening service

5:30 –7:00 pm

Light meal5:30–6:15 pm

Light meal & break

Return next year,

for CMA chapter 9

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Orientation6:30–7:00 pm

7:00–8:15 pm

Lecture & Discussion

Session 1

Lecture & discussion

Session 6

Q & A

Lecture & discussion

Session 11

Q & A

8:15 – 9:00 pm

Metta Meditation

Sharing of merit

2015 SYLLABUS

Session 1. Friday 9/4, 7:00 pm–8:15 pm

Chapter VII: Compendium of Categories

§1. The meaning of samuccaya.Purpose of this chapter. Review of the 72 kinds of entities:citta, as classified according to 4 planes and 4 types (see Table 1.1, p. 28; Table 1.9, p. 70);the 52 mental factors (see Table 2.1, p. 79); the 18 types of concrete material phenomena (see Table 6.1, p. 236), plus 4 causes (pp. 246–50).

Session 2: Saturday 9/5, 9:00 am–10:00 am

Chapter VII: Compendium of the Unwholesome §§3–14. The mental defilements.

Session 3: Saturday 9/5, 10:20 am–11:20 am

Chapter VII: Compendium of the Unwholesome §§3–14. The mental defilements (continued).

Session4: Saturday 9/5, 2:10 pm–3:10 pm

Chapter VII: Compendium of Mixed Categories §§15–21.

Session5: Saturday 9/5, 3:30 pm–4:15 pm

Chapter VII: Compendium of Requisites of Enlightenment §§24–28.From four foundations of mindfulness through five powers.

Session6: Saturday 9/5, 7:00 pm–8:15 pm

Chapter VII: Compendium of Requisites of Enlightenment (continued) §§29–33. Seven enlightenment factors, the eightfold path;as mental factors.

Session7: Sunday 9/6, 9:00 am–10:00 am

Chapter VII: Compendium of the Whole §§34–40. Aggregates, sense bases, elements, and noble truths.

Session 8: Sunday 9/6, 10:20 am–11:20 am

Chapter VIII: Compendium of Conditionality. Introductory; the two methods. Dependent origination, from old age back to existence (part 1).

Session9: Sunday 9/6, 2:10 pm–3:10 pm

Chapter VIII: Compendium of Conditionality: Dependent origination (part 2).

Existence, clinging, craving, and feeling.

Session 10: Sunday 9/6, 3:30 pm–4:15 pm

Chapter VIII: Compendium of Conditionality: Dependent origination (part 3).

From feeling back through ignorance.

Session 11: Sunday 9/6, 7:00 pm–8:15 pm

Chapter VIII: Compendium of Conditionality: Dependent origination (part 4).

Categories of analysis (§§4–10)

Session 12: Monday 9/7, 9:00 am–10:00 am

Chapter VIII: Compendium of Conditionality: The Method of Conditional Relations. The 24 conditional relations.

Session 13: Monday 9/7, 10:20 am–11:20 am

Chapter VIII: Compendium of Conditionality. The 24 conditional relations (continued). How to use conditional relations to interpret dependent origination.

Session 14: Monday 9/7, 2:10 pm–3:10 pm

Comprehensive Q & Asession.

 

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