This short course is a part of the FPMT "Buddhist Mind Science: Activating Your Potential" series that focuses on meditation and the mind to provide insight and practical techniques on meditation, the mechanisms of suffering and happiness, finding mental balance, and how to discover and develop our potential for compassion and wisdom. The presentation is in harmony with a comparative modern scientific perspective.
Join us to explore the intersection of modern psychology and the Buddhist contemplative methods that increase our sense of well-being, meaning and purpose and deal with our disturbing emotions.
In this module, you will gain an understanding of the purpose of meditation and the basics of how to engage in both placement and analytical meditation.
Ven. George Churinoff guides us through this profound sequence of lamrim meditations so we can gain a full understanding of the Buddha’s teachings, nourish our minds, and create the causes for contentment.
When circumstances are challenging and stressful, do you feel distressed, anxious, and depleted? In this course, Stephan Pende guides us through different meditations from the Buddhist tradition to give us a toolkit to reset our internal thermostat so we can cultivate more calmness and resilience.
Learn how to cultivate and enhance attention skills, strengthen your mindfulness, and develop a relaxed yet focused mind. Within Buddhism, this training is often referred to as shamatha practice – the…
Learn how to develop meditative concentration to calm our minds, and how to use the meditation on exchanging our self-concern with altruistic concern to open our hearts and dedicate our lives fully to the welfare of all beings.
Mahamudra is the universal reality of emptiness, of nonduality, the inborn nature of all phenomena. These meditations help us go beyond ego’s addiction to a limited sense of self and taste the lightness and expansiveness of our own true nature.
In these healing and restorative sessions, you will learn time-honored ways of experiencing and resting right now in your natural state of inner peace, the ultimate source of lasting happiness. We will shift from identifying with thoughts, feelings, history, likes and dislikes, to finding out who or what is actually aware.
In this talk, we’ll explore a Buddhist and psychodynamic understanding of anxiety, its causes and personal symptoms.
