Mindful Living - 6 month residential work practice program

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Mangalam Center, in Downtown Berkeley, CA, is coming on its second term for the Mindful Living program. This might be interesting to you if you are looking for an alternative lifestyle, to deepen your mindfulness practice, learn about Buddhism, and do Good work for a non profit with an aim to bring mindfulness to the modern world.

It is a 6 month residential work practice program in a Buddhist community in downtown Berkeley. Here is our website for all the details of this program: Mindful Living. The program begins in the beginning of January 2020.

Blurb on the Program below:

Mindful Living is a six-month residential program that integrates studies of mindfulness and Buddhism with daily life including relationships and work. The intention is to design projects that aim to create avenues which explore presence while living in a community educating itself on systemic thinking. The program is designed to cultivate curiosity about your own mind in order to act more fully in accord with your own values and intention.

You will be living with a Buddhist community that has been established since 1969 in Berkeley, CA. Our centers engage in many projects: we lead teacher trainings, drop ins and other classes, have buddhist inspired cinema screenings, art galleries, publish books, do charitable works, produce art, to name a few of our projects here.

As part of Mindful Living, you will live at the Mangalam Center, in the heart of Berkeley. You will have your own room, sharing a bathroom with the room adjacent to you. Lunch and breakfast will be provided as well as a stipend for other meals. The center is vegetarian only.

You will take 3 classes with your fellow cohort each week. One class focuses on bringing presence into your daily life through different practices. Another on the other on how Buddhist teachings are making their way in the United States. The last on is a mindfulness class called Full Presence Mindfulness, an approach growing out of the teachings of Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche. You are welcome and encouraged to take other classes or workshops offered in any of our Berkeley centers. They range from traditional Buddhist teachings to secular mindfulness classes - Meditation, Buddhist Studies, Kum Nye Tibetan Yoga, Chanting, Tibetan Language, Revelations of Mind - to name a few.

Selection Criteria:

-Interested in developing a mindful life

-Willingness to fully participate in program activities for the duration of the program

-Readiness to contribute energy and enthusiasm

-Open-minded, self-reflective, and ready to learn and engage deeply on inner and outer levels.

-Will follow all the program rules and abide by a simple Code of Conduct for the community.

-Healthy and able to care for oneself

-Comfortable with a combination of office work and light physical work

-You do not need to be Buddhist, but you must be open, respectful, and curious about what we do.

-Comfortable with living in a drug-free community

-Interested in taking on work you may have never done before - figuring out how to do the task and seeing it through to the end, through the ups and downs of doubt, frustration, joy and wonder.

Please see our website for more information, pictures, and the application. Feel free to reach out for a tour or any questions that may come up.

https://mangalamcenter.com/mindful-living-program/