The "Wake Up to Your Life” (or WUTYL, pronounced woo til) group of Columbus, Ohio is a small, nonsectarian Buddhist group that meets weekly to meditate and to study the Buddhist teachings of Ken McLeod, Stephen Batchelor, Reggie Ray, Larry Rosenberg, Martine Batchelor, and other western teachers.

We learn to apply practical Buddhist tools to our daily lives in order to become increasingly open to the mystery of the present moment. Though we view regular meditation practice as one key element to becoming more fully awake and alive, we seek to develop a type of practice that we can recall throughout the day, whether on or off the cushion. We don't just try to fit a meditation practice into our lives. We bring our lives into our practice.

WEEKLY MEDITATION SCHEDULE:

SUNDAYS: 4-6:00 PM  "BEGINNER'S GROUP" 

30 minutes of meditation instruction, followed by 60 minutes to apply the instruction (with 10 minutes of walking meditation).  We end with thirty minutes to discuss our meditation experience.  Led by Jim Ellsworth.  Held at 13 E. Tulane, just up from the Cup O' Joe coffee shop in Clintonville. 

WEDNESDAYS: 7-9:00 PM "WUTYL PRACTICE GROUP"

60 minutes of sitting and walking meditation practice, followed by 60 minutes for study and discussion. Currently the group has just started studying the "Wake Up to Your Life" book from the beginning.  Led by Jesse Hemminger.  Meetings are held at his apartment in Clintonville.  E-mail wutyl.columbus@gmail.com if you would like to attend. 

 

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"Here's the link to the Secular Buddha podcasts.  Rick Hanson's is number 99.  The Batchelors have a couple of podcast interviews here that are quite good too.  http://www.thesecularbuddhist.com/episode_index.php"
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Jim Ellsworth replied to Jim Ellsworth's discussion Building a Buddha Brain One Simple Practice at a Time
"Hi Teresa.  I purchased Mary Baker Eddy's "Science and Health" a while ago but I must confess that I've not read through it.  From the little I know about Christian Science, it seems that there's a similar emphasis…"
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Jim Ellsworth left a comment for Teresa Speakman
"Hi Teresa, So sorry we missed you today.  I've been so busy this past week that I couldn't get online to reply to your message.  Hopefully we'll meet at Wat Buddha Samakidham next weekend or else free to come to the group…"
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The heart of struggling...

Posted by Jim Ellsworth on March 22, 2011 at 9:30pm 0 Comments

from Ngakapa Chogyam's "Journey into Vastness: A Handbook of Tibetan Meditation Techniques"



"We started out earlier in this chapter with the idea that we mistrust the Nature of what we are, and that we seem to need continual confirmation that we are actually here.  The continual activity of seeking assurances of our existence is our penchant for unnecessarily clothing our Naked Awareness in concepts.  But our conceptual apparel has something of… Continue

For Steve

Posted by Jim Ellsworth on March 15, 2011 at 2:37pm 0 Comments

It's been a couple of years since I've practiced Aikido regularly.  I used to go several times a week for about  3 or 4 years.  I never got very good at it but I did move from someone who was a "slave of fear," as Sensei Paul once remarked, to someone who could more or less stay present in my own bodyheartmind as people were trying to kill me.  There was a brown belt named Steve who liked a very energetic form of practice.  He often encouraged me to stay after class for extra practice time.  I… Continue

Not getting my way

Posted by Jim Ellsworth on March 12, 2011 at 6:04pm 2 Comments

We worked hard on Wednesday night learning the four part method to disrupt habitual patterns.  I took some time on Thursday and Friday morning writing down which reactive patterns I want to break and coming up with a practice to cut them with. 



I spoke with Janaki on Friday.  We spoke about various topics and then I touched on the Four Part Method with all my elaborate plans to "recognize, disidentify, develop a practice, and to cut with the practice."  She pointed me back toward… Continue

Prison

Posted by Jim Ellsworth on March 8, 2011 at 9:34pm 0 Comments

This weeks theme seems to be prison.  


Last Wednesday night, we went through Meditation 9 of the WUTYL book.  Habituation and Enslavement.  We explored how our perceptions of the world and our lives would change if performing a harmful action (like stealing, killing, lying, slandering, or speaking offensively) or a helpful action (being generous, courteous, complimenting someone, helping a person in need, speaking truthfully, or healing).  I'd worked on the meditation…
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