Buddhist Mindscience: Module 2
Transforming the Mind to Cultivate Lasting Happiness
Online course with Marina Brucet & Hans Burghardt
Discover the workings of the mind and the mechanisms of suffering and happiness and unlock your potential for mental balance, compassion and wisdom.
The 7-module Journey
Welcome to this journey to unlock our potential and cultivate lasting happiness. Buddhism it is considered by some a “science of mind,” because it presents a comprehensive and deep description of the mind, it studies its various aspects and functions, and it provides methods to observe it directly and to discover and activate our inner potential. And it does so with one intention: to overcome suffering and its causes and to cultivate true, lasting happiness.
The course follows a gradual approach, with a strong experiential component that invites everyone to reflect and check by themselves the different topics presented along the courses. With a strong emphasis on transforming daily life in meaningful ways, it provides both Buddhist and scientific perspectives. It consists of seven courses that can be done as independent courses:
- Cultivating lasting happiness: What Buddhism and science have to say about it
- Transforming the mind to cultivate lasting happiness
- Getting to know your mind
- Fundamental trainings to cultivate lasting happiness
- Wise paths to the heart
- The nature of perception
- Embodying warmheartedness and wisdom
(For more information: watch this video with explanation from the trainers or download the brochure with the full description of the course).
Mod. 2: Transforming the Mind to Cultivate Lasting Happiness
(4 online classes)
Are we free to choose what we pay attention to? How can we be able to choose? Can we increase our mental balance? How could we have a healthy emotional life?
This module explores what meditation is and focuses on calming the mind and refining attention with the breath, a healthy emotional life, and enhancing wholesome emotions and mental states as first foundations for cultivating lasting happiness. It is complemented by references to current scientific understanding on attention training, well- being, empathy, and emotions.
Your teachers – Marina Brucet & Hans Burghardt
The course will be giving by two extraordinary scientists, Buddhist trainers and founders of this course from our sister-FPMT center Tushita Meditation Center in Viladrau, Spain.
Marina Brucet 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 and has completed a one-year individual meditation retreat, among others.
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. 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 is co-founder of the Initiative for an Emotional, Ethical, and Social Education in Spain.
Practical information
- Day & timing: Wednesday evenings from 19.00-20.30 hrs
- Dates Module 2:
- October 30, Nov 6/13/20
- Online: via Zoom.
- Language: English
- Registration: You can register for the whole module, 4 classes.
- Last-minute registration: Please also send an email to amsterdam@maitreya.nl, to ensure we can send you the necessary Zoomlink in time to join the class.
Donation
Dāna (generosity) is one of the cornerstones of the Buddhist path. By virtue of their generosity, the Buddha and the ordained sangha offer us the teachings, and in exchange, the lay community supports Dharma centers and the monastic community. This interdependence is essential for us to share the Dharma and continue our work to benefit all sentient beings. With your donation we support our teachers in their cost of living and we uphold our dharma center, which is managed entirely by volunteers.
The suggested donation for this series of 4 classes is €35. For students and people with low income, the suggested donation is €25. Please send us an email if you'd like to make use of this option. Keep in mind that the donation amount should never be an obstacle to your access to the Dharma. Please contact us if it might be an obstacle for you.
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