9.3. Schedule

If you are working through the course amidst daily life, then choose your own pace, but keep moving forward by at least one section daily. You can always come back and revisit topics later.

Here's a suggested schedule for a dedicated retreat.

Day TIme Section
Day 0 Evening 0.1. About the Course
0.2. A Note on Meditation
Day 1 All day 1.1. Coming Back to Your Senses
Day 2 Morning 1.2. Sense of Sight
Afternoon 1.3. Sense of Hearing
Evening 1.4. Sense of Smell
Day 3 Morning 1.5. Sense of Taste
Afternoon 1.6. Sense of Touch
Evening 1.7. Sense of Mind
Day 4 All day 2.1. Open Awareness
Day 5 All day 2.2. Name the Channel
Day 6 All day 2.2. Name the Channel (continued)
Day 7 All day 2.3. Dual Experiences
2.4. Training Awareness
Day 8 All day 3.1. A Note on Noting
Day 9 All day 3.2. Overcoming the Five Obstacles
Day 10 All day 3.3. Samatha Vipassanā
Day 11 All day 3.4. Generating Interest
Day 12 All day 3.5. Paying Attention to Attention
Day 13 All day 4.1. The Internal Dependency
Day 14 All day 4.2. The External Dependency
Day 15 All day 4.3. Conditions for Consciousness
Day 16 All day 4.4. Contact!
Day 17 All day 4.5 Creating the World
Day 18 All day 4.6. Saṅkhata
Day 19 All day 5.1. Sukhavedanā
Day 20 All day 5.2. Dukkhavedanā
Day 21 All day 5.3. Adukkhamasukhavedanā
Day 22 All day 5.4. Three Types of Vedanā
Day 23 All day 5.5. Eighteen Types of Vedanā
Day 24 All day 5.6. Craving, Aversion and Ignorance
Day 25 All day 5.7. Cultivating Equanimity
Day 26 All day 6.1. Recognizing Anicca
Day 27 All day 6.2. Vedanā are Anicca
Day 28 All day 6.3. Giving Up Interest in Anicca
Day 29 All day 7.1. Recognizing Dukkha
Day 30 All day 7.2. The Source of Dukkha
Day 31 All day 7.3. Giving Up Interest in Dukkha
Day 32 All day 8.1. All Experience is Anatta
Day 32 All day 8.2. Three Types of Anatta
Day 33 All day 8.3. Anicca, Dukkha, Anatta
Day 34 All day 8.4. Emptiness
Day 35 All day 8.5. Nibbidā