Buddhist Mindscience Module 7: Embodying warmheartedness and wisdom
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. 7: Embodying Warmheartedness and Wisdom
(4 online classes)
How can we walk an inner journey in today’s world? How can we bring our inner values and qualities into the world? Can we make a difference? To do so, which inner qualities do we need to strengthen? How can we use difficulties in our favor? Could warmheartedness and wisdom be our main tools for a meaningful life?
This course focuses on how to bring our inner qualities into the world—and how to enhance them while living in it. It does so by presenting topics such as inner refuge, spirituality, and engaged compassion. It also includes helpful guidelines, such as the “six perfections,” or how to deal with difficulties and use them in our favor. In a way, it is a call for a revolution of compassion. It is complemented by references to current scientific understanding on prosocial skills, life satisfaction, well-being, and happiness.
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 7: April 2, 9, 16, 23
- 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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