Quiet Mind

A Quiet Mind

--Controlling Discursive Thought; Cultivating Pure Awareness

A quiet mind, and human wholeness, are available through controlling discursive thought and developing nondiscursive perception. Like learning to walk or to talk, using the mind well is a matter of patient repeated efforts. This course provides a simple method for controlling discursive thought; and for making nondiscursive awareness your primary perspective, through which discursivity is guided in creating a flourishing life and a flourishing Earth.

The program can be summarized simply:

1. Pure awareness,
2. A simple life,
3. Ceaseless practice.

This course is based on the booklet A Quiet Mind.^[1]

The objectives of this course are to:

• Practice quieting your mind,
• Learn to transcend discursive thoughts and experience pure perception,
• Increase your ability to pay attention to the world as it unfolds around you,
• Practice distinguishing thoughts from reality, and
• Increase your ability to flourish as a human being.

There are no specific prerequisites to this course.

This course is part of the Applied Wisdom curriculum.

This course uses gender-inclusive language that may be new to students. Please read this note on gender inclusive language.

Questions posed by students are answered by Richard Hawley.

Dear human,

You should know.