Chris Cullen has practised and studied the Buddha's teachings since 1994 and has been teaching Insight Meditation retreats since 2010. He also teaches for Oxford University’s Mindfulness Centre and has a psychotherapy practice in Oxford.
An exploration of the Buddha's teaching on anatta (not-self), and the importance also of honoring personhood and cultivating flexibility of view so as to respond appropriately to circumstances. The emptiness of all phenomena is also briefly explained and explored.
An exploration of ways of practicing with perceptions of the five elements - earth, water, fire, air, space - so as to cultivate samadhi, realize non-self (anatta) and understand the appearance and fabrication of perception and intention.
Morning instructions on ways of practicing with thoughts so as to develop a more spacious relationship with thinking and understand more fully the shaping power of perception and papañca (projection, proliferation, objectification.
An exploration of ways of practicing and deepening personal and universal insights so as to gradually unbind body and heart (citta) from fabrications that constrict and compress.
An exploration of personal and universal dimensions of insight with suggestions on working with sankaras and meditative understanding of impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and not self.
Some exploration of dimensions of "I-Making and My-Making", investigating dependent arising of selfing, ways of cultivating the perception "not self" the emptiness of all phenomena, and the im[portace of honoring the "relative self" and personal dimensions.
An introduction to the topic of insight/liberating understanding with some exploration of the domains of personal insight and cultivation of three universal insight contemplations of anicca (impermanence) dukkha (unsatisfactoriness) and anata (not self)
A talk from the first full day of a retreat exploring how to deepen a sense of enjoyment, grounding and collectedness through cultivation of the five Jhana factors.
An introduction to the modes of mind framework which is increasingly used within Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy. Reflections on how to use this in practice and its deeper relationship with the Four Noble Truths.
