“In A Householder’s Vinaya, Allan Cooper describes in detail and depth guidelines for realizing our highest dharma aspirations. Going beyond conventional notions of daily life practice, Allan’s deep wisdom both challenges and inspires us to raise the bar of impeccability as we undertake the liberating teachings of the Buddha. In this unique work, there is a wealth of practical advice for transforming everyday life experiences into a genuine path of awakening. Highly recommended.”
Joseph Goldstein
Author of Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening and Co-founder of Insight Meditation Society, Barre, MA.
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Forum: The Voice of Home Practice
The Voice of Home Practice is an online discussion board where people are invited to ask questions, share their experiences, and discuss topics of mutual interest regarding meditation practice with an emphasis on meditation practice at home and in our everyday lives. This forum will create social connections and a sense of community that is otherwise difficult and/or impossible as a consequence of how most of us live and due to the impact of the pandemic. Allan will monitor the site, and will both offer his support and direction in order that discussions remain wholesome and directed towards the cultivation of the Noble Eightfold Path in lay life.
Talks: Dharma on the Back Porch
Dharma on the Back Porch offers a listener the opportunity to listen to discussion series about the Buddha’s Four Noble Truths and Eightfold Noble Path. Aired on Silver City, New Mexico’s Public Radio KURU and hosted by George Carr and Candice Burke. George and Candice ask Allan Cooper questions from the point of view of someone who knows just enough about meditation and Buddhism to be confused.
Using the common art of conversation this show will explore in theory and with practical life examples ways to explore what we know, what we don’t know, and what we think we know and don’t, about these life affecting practices.
The first six-show series entitled ‘Meditation, Why Not?” examines the Four Noble Truths in general.
- Enough Already
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Ouch Ouch Ouch
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Don’t Tread on Me
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Ahhh!
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Chopping Water and Carrying Wood
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Q/A
The second ten-show series entitled ‘When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It’ examines the Fourth Noble Truth, the Noble Eightfold Path.
- Review of the Four Noble Truths and overview of the Noble Eightfold Path.
- Right View/understanding.
- Right Intention.
- Right Speech.
- Right Action.
- Right Livelihood.
- Right Effort.
- Right Mindfulness.
- Right Concentration.
- Wisdom and summary.
Reader’s Comments About Householder’s Vinaya
Allan Cooper has practiced vipassana and samatha meditation practices since 1974. His primary teachers are the Burmese meditation master Sayadaw U Pandita, his student, Sayadaw U Vivekananda, Abbot, Panditarama International Vipassana Meditation Center, Lumbini, Nepal, and Joseph Goldstein, co-founder of Insight Meditation Society, Barre, MA, USA. Allan is a retired hospice and mental health RN and has been teaching meditation and leading retreats for many years.