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Buddhist Mind Science, Module 4: Fundamental Trainings to Cultivate Lasting Happiness (Zoom only)

Repeats every week every Saturday 3 times.
10:00 am Saturday, October 7, 2023

Buddhist Mind Science, Module 4: Fundamental Trainings to Cultivate Lasting Happiness

This course is an introduction to the fundamental practices that Buddhism offers to cultivate the paths that lead to freedom from suffering and its causes.  It concludes by presenting the possibility of awakening, the maximum expression of our potential.  It is complemented by references to current scientific understanding on why is it that we feel unsatisfied, ethics, the development of attention and wisdom.

The 3-part course takes place online only, via Zoom, from 10am - 12pm, on the following Saturdays:  

     1.  Saturday October 7, 2023

     2.  Saturday October 14, 2023

     3.  Saturday October 21, 2023

ENROLLMENT CLOSED for Buddhist Mind Science, Module 4: Fundamental Trainings to Cultivate Lasting Happiness

This introductory course is part of a new FPMT pilot series, "Buddhist Mind Science: Activating Your Potential", which introduces the Buddhist knowledge of the mind and meditation to provide practical techniques and insight on the mechanisms of suffering and happiness, finding purpose and mental balance, and how to discover and activate our inner potential for warmheartedness and wisdom, all in harmony with a comparative modern scientific perspective and with the aim to contribute to the welfare in this world.

Course Information for Buddhist Mind Science, Module 4

HOW TO SUPPORT THE TEACHINGS

In keeping with our tradition, Kadampa Center does not charge a fee to attend any Dharma teaching to ensure that financial resources will never be an obstacle to hearing the Dharma.  Your support for the Buddhist Mind Science course opens access to the Dharma for others and enables Kadampa Center to make a generous offering to the course instructors.

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COURSE INSTRUCTORS

 

Marina Brucet Vinyals holds a BA and a MA in Biochemistry and a PhD in Molecular Biology in Immunology from the University of Barcelona, where she also performed postdoctoral studies. After this, she decided to change research in the laboratory for research of the mind and its possibilities. To this aim, she completed a six-year full-time study program Masters Program of Advanced Buddhist Studies of Sutra and Tantra at Lama Tzong Khapa Institute, Italy. She studied with great Tibetan lamas such as His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Lama Jampa Monlam and Khensur Jampa Tegchok, amongst others, and has completed a one-year individual meditation retreat, among others. Presently, she combines continual development and meditation retreats with teaching meditation and Buddhist philosophy, at both general and specialized levels, with an approach that always takes into account the context and circumstances of Western life. She mainly teaches at Tushita Meditation Center Spain and other FPMT centers, and collaborates with SEE Learning (Emory University) in Spain.

 

Hans Burghardt holds a BA and a MA in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and a PhD from the University of Barcelona, where he spent seven years doing research. Since 2002, he meditates and is a student of great Buddhist masters including His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche, Lama Jampa Monlam, Khensur Jampa Tegchok amongst others. He has completed the Masters Program of Advanced Buddhist Studies of Sutra and Tantra at Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa (Italy) and has completed a one-year individual meditation retreat. He currently teaches meditation and Buddhism at Tushita Meditation Center Spain and other FPMT centers, and is co-founder and coordinator of the Initiative for an Emotional, Ethical, and Social Education, that promotes the establishment of Emory University's SEE Learning in Spain.

 

 

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