Buddhist Mindscience Module 6: The nature of perception
Buddhist Mindscience: Activating Your Potential
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. 6: The Nature of Perception
(4 online classes)
How do we perceive things? Is the way we perceive things accurate? Does the way we perceive things influence our experiences of happiness and suffering? What is the relationship between perception and wisdom? Could an accurate, wise, way of perceiving things be a source of well-being and freedom from suffering?
This course focuses on wisdom. It reflects on its meaning, relevance, and how it counteracts the causes of suffering. It goes deeper into the most profound aspect of wisdom: understanding the nature of reality. It concludes with the nature of mind which makes full awakening possible and it is complemented by references to current scientific understanding on wisdom and well-being and the process of perception.
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 6: March 5, 12, 19, 26
- 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. With your donation 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 (amsterdam@maitreya.nl) 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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