Training the Heart for Lasting Happiness
with Hans Burghardt & Marina Vinyals
If you pause and reflect on your life, what do you cherish most? What makes certain memories stand out as truly meaningful and precious? Many contemplative traditions suggest that connecting with our innate capacity for care—our potential for love and compassion—is a powerful way to cultivate meaning, purpose, and a deep sense of well-being, while bringing us closer to our best nature. Research also shows that developing warmheartedness and prosocial attitudes, traits central to human evolution, supports both personal well-being and flourishing.
Drawing on Buddhist psychology and contemporary scientific research, this course explores our capacity to develop these qualities and offers practical methods to cultivate them in everyday life. Grounded in the complementary principles of wisdom and compassion, it also introduces key insights into how we perceive ourselves and others, and how transforming these perceptions can lead to meaningful change. This course serves as a foundation for deeper study and practice, and includes the opportunity to do a subsequent retreat exploring the Four Immeasurable Attitudes, The Four Immeasurables: Warm Heart Fitness, to be held at the center on Sat-Sun, Sep 12–13.
FPMT announcement: Hans Burghardt & Marina Brucet Tour 2026
Short Video
Hans Burghardt & Marina Vinyals introduce their upcoming course: Training the Heart for Lasting Happiness
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About the Teachers
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.
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.
