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Science and Buddhism II: Understanding one's mind

By Caroline I P on Sun, 12 Nov, 2023 - 20:30

Science and Buddhism II: Understanding one's mind

By Caroline I P on Sun, 12 Nov, 2023 - 20:30

Scientists themselves have increasingly seen the importance of ‘the observer’. Science is for human beings, so it needs to understand what it is to be human, what self-awareness is, and what the range of human needs are (scientists tend to stop at the survival (medicine), and material (technology) needs.) But above all because immediate experience is all we have! All else is inferred, models, theories, assumptions, attempts at communication etc.

So take mental processes seriously. And take seriously the mental processes of others — there is a real...

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Getting Curious About Your Experience

By Centre Team on Mon, 25 Sep, 2023 - 11:00

Getting Curious About Your Experience

By Centre Team on Mon, 25 Sep, 2023 - 11:00

Yashobodhi talks about the relationship between thinking and insight. As long as we have a brain, we will have thoughts. Some of these thoughts are helpful. Some not so much. Becoming aware of thoughts is a good start. Whatever next?

Excerpted from the talk entitled Inquisitive Mind, Thinking and Awakening given at West London Buddhist Centre, 2015.

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Emptiness and the Nature of Mind: Meditation Intensive Online Led by Tejananda with Upekshanandi

By Centre Team on Sat, 27 May, 2023 - 12:35

Emptiness and the Nature of Mind: Meditation Intensive Online Led by Tejananda with Upekshanandi

By Centre Team on Sat, 27 May, 2023 - 12:35

A Home Retreat: 24 – 28 November, 2023

Reserve your space on Emptiness and the Nature of Mind

Our deepest and truest nature, right now, is the Dharma. We can imagine – and ultimately experience – this as the total openness of the ‘Dharma body’, which is pure emptiness: empty of any divided-ness whatsoever.

Our world is literally made up from this total openness, together with the illuminating clarity of awareness and unlimited, spontaneous ‘compassionate energy’. Traditionally, the union of these is referred to as...

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The Nature of Mind - Seminar: The Wisdom of Near Death Experiences

By Zac on Fri, 25 Feb, 2022 - 13:26

The Nature of Mind - Seminar: The Wisdom of Near Death Experiences

By Zac on Fri, 25 Feb, 2022 - 13:26

led by Maitreyabandhu & Jnanavaca
4th March | 7-8:30pm GMT, 8-9:30pm CET, 6-7:30am AEDT

‘Near death experiences have previously been considered unworthy of science but, now that these experiences are being seriously acknowledged and are a valid area for scientific study, it seems that we are on the threshold of expanding our current knowledge about the meaning of life and death.’

- Dr Penny Sartori

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This interactive zoom seminar will explore the implications...

The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times

Looking into the Well: Using Writing to Explore the Mind

By Centre Team on Mon, 8 Feb, 2021 - 23:00

Looking into the Well: Using Writing to Explore the Mind

By Centre Team on Mon, 8 Feb, 2021 - 23:00

A four-week course with Yashobodhi: Sundays: March 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th
Each session will be done twice every week to accommodate time zones (see below for times and springtime changes mid-course!).

Come to any session you want with your ticket.

Reserve your space (Suggested donation for the whole course: $80 £80 €80)

About the course
In this course we will use writing as a tool to tap into the abundance and wisdom that usually lie dormant under our habitual ways of viewing ourselves and the world.

The prompts we will be using...

The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times

Sky Beyond the Clouds: A Guide to Befriending Difficult Emotions

By Centre Team on Tue, 29 Dec, 2020 - 17:24

Sky Beyond the Clouds: A Guide to Befriending Difficult Emotions

By Centre Team on Tue, 29 Dec, 2020 - 17:24

A four-week course with Yashobodhi

Sundays: January 24th, 31st, February 7th, 14th
Each session will be done twice to accommodate time zones. Come to either session each week with your ticket!

First daily session (2 hrs): IE & UK 09:30 | Europe CET 10:30 | India 14:00 | Australia AEDT 20.30 | New Zealand 22.30

Second daily session (1.5 hrs): USA PST 11:00 | México 13:00 | USA EST 14:00 | IE & UK...

North London Buddhist Centre

Become One Person, Become No Person

By Ratnaprabha on Fri, 7 Aug, 2020 - 09:43

Become One Person, Become No Person

By Ratnaprabha on Fri, 7 Aug, 2020 - 09:43

North London Buddhist Centre Budcast talk, 11:30, Saturday 8 August.

Nandaraja (pictured) will explain how Perfect Samadhi (meditation, or better, unification of mind) completes the Buddha’s 8-fold Path.

He writes: “Samadhi is a higher state of consciousness that is not fettered by concepts, ideas or language. All the previous seven limbs of the Eightfold Path come together, and Perfect Samadhi is both supported by and supports them, integrating them into a holistic system of interconnectedness that dissolves clinging and yields a renunciation of the...

Windhorse Publications

Free the Dharma - Mind in Harmony by Subhuti

By dhammamegha on Mon, 11 May, 2020 - 13:21

Free the Dharma - Mind in Harmony by Subhuti

By dhammamegha on Mon, 11 May, 2020 - 13:21

This is the eighth week that we’ll be sharing a weekly e-book. When we started in March, it seemed likely that it would be something we’d do for a month or two at the most. Yet here we are, two months later, and this new future stretches before us.

This week we’re giving away Subhuti’s Mind in Harmony: the psychology of Buddhist ethics. You can download it free here until 25 May. You can also buy a paper copy here.

Mind in Harmony is...

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