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Mind Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics

Sixth Module - The six main destructive emotions, the secondary ones and other mental factors

Following the advice of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, ven. Geshe Jampa Gelek has created a new course, based on the second volume of the “Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics” – a compendium of the philosophy and science of the mind that have their origins in the early centuries of Indian thought.

Every month, Geshe Gelek will guide us into gradually understanding how the mind works and into exploring the cognitive maps, while combining theory and practice, sessions of teachings with meditation sittings.

The teachings will also be available in English. We kindly ask you to bring a radio and earphones with you, in order to be able to listen to the English translation.

  • 9 – 11 February: Introduction to the Subject
  • 30 March – 2 April: The different ways in which the mind relates to the phenomena: the sevenfold typology of cognition
  • 22 – 24 June: The cognitive processes through affirmation and through exclusion. Negation and affirmation
  • 7 – 9 September: The distinction between mind and mental factors
  • 5 – 7 October: The detailed analysis of the mental factors which are the root of wellbeing and happiness: love and affection, patience, compassion, taking and giving (tonglen)
  • 2 – 4 November: The six main destructive emotions, the secondary ones and other mental factors
  • 23 – 25 November: The general explanation of the different levels of gross and subtle consciousness, as explained in the Tantra of the Supreme Yoga; the different levels of energy amd the dissolution of the energies combined to the various types of consciences at the moment of death
  • date to be announced: How to educate the mind. Identifying the causes and conditions that produce mental afflictions; the way in which some mental factors are opposed to other mental factors; the progression of the wisdom of listening, reflecting and meditating; the importance of applying the mental factors of memory and introspection in the development of the three wisdoms; vision, meditation and action
  • date to be announced: Calm abiding. How to develop concentration; the object of concentration; the nature of calm abiding; applications, antidotes and errors; the nine meditative placements
  • date to be announced: Analysis and investigation: how to cultivate the special wisdom of the refined investigation; mindfulness meditation

The teachings begin in the evening of the first day ( 20:30) and conclude at noon, on the last day (12:30/13:00).
The morning and afternoon sessions are generally held:
from 10:00 to 12:00;
from 15.00 to 17.00.
The schedule of the sessions is subject to variations, with the exception of the first and last session of every monthly encounter.

For those who choose accomodation at the Institute or the Borgo, the course is upon free offer.

For those who only attend the course, a 30€ minimum offer is recommended.

The audio recordings of the teachings will be available on the e-learning platform of the ILTK study programs. This material will be accessible by means of a password, once each module will be completed in the Institute.

How you can have access to the recordings:

  • for those who attend the teachings and stay in the Institute, the access will be offered. When doing the check-in at the reception, you will be given a document containing the password and the instructions for the access. The password will be automatically activated on the Wednesday following the completion of the teachings module in the Institute.
  • those who attend the teachings in the Institute can request the access to the recordings at the reception, paying 30€. You will be given a document containing the password and the instructions for the access. The password will be automatically activated on the Wednesday following the completion of the teachings module in the Institute.
  • those who cannot attend the course in the Institute can request the access to the recordings of a single teachings module, filling in the form.

Advantages for the supporting and benefactor members: it is reminded that the supporting and benefactor members can listen to the teachings in direct streaming.

Over many years I have had the chance to engage in dialogues with scientists on a range of topics, such as cosmology, neurobiology, evolution, and physics, especially subatomic- particle physics. is latter discipline of particle physics shares methods strikingly similar to those found in Buddhism, such as the Mind Only school’s critique of the external material world that reveals that nothing can be found when matter is deconstructed into its constitutive elements, and similarly the statements found in the Middle Way school treatises that nothing can be found when one searches for the real referents behind our concepts and their associated terms. In general the mind is the main factor involved in accomplishing the explicitly desired goals of living beings. The mind, unlike physical things, is difficult to identify. Yet if we train our mind, in reliance on mindfulness, introspection, heedfulness, and so on, we will attain both temporary and final happiness. Therefore, in the Buddhist tradition, the tradition of analyzing the topic of “mind” in great detail flourished from the earliest times. This is also the main reason why there exist in the Buddhist texts extensive explanations about psychology. Both the happiness and suffering that arise in relation to beings’ desired goals finally depend on the functioning of the mind—it is owing to the force of having one’s mind tamed or not tamed that temporary or lasting happiness and suffering arise. The essence of the Buddha’s teaching is said to be the thorough taming of the mind. The mind, the subjective, is perfectly clear because it is by nature itself illuminating, and because other objects, such as forms and so on, by means of something like the transference of their aspects—the nature of forms and so on—onto a clear consciousness, become the appearing objects of such a consciousness. Therefore it is taught that forms and so on clearly appear to that consciousness. In that case, consciousness has both the quality of illuminating, in the sense of being illuminating itself, and the quality of illuminating its object, in the sense that the aspect of the object appears. According to certain early Buddhist texts, both “clear” and “cognizing” may additionally mean “empty” in the sense of being naturally empty of obstructivity, for those texts present ways of identifying the nature of consciousness as that which has the three qualities—empty, clear, and cognizing. To understand the presentation of mind, early Buddhist texts offer many different ways of categorizing the mind. These are included within the sevenfold typology of mind, the threefold division of mind, and the twofold divisions of mind. First, the sevenfold typology of mind consists of: (1) direct perception, (2) inference, (3) subsequent cognition, (4) correct assumption, (5) inattentive perception, (6) doubt, (7) distorted cognition.
From the introduction of H.H. the Dalai Lama to the first volume of “Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics”

Insegnante

Ven. Geshe Jampa Gelek

Geshe Jampa Gelek was born in 1966 in Tibet. He received the Geshe Lharampa degree from Sera Je Monastic University in South India, graduating first in his class in 1999.

Focusing on tantric studies, Geshe Jampa Gelek is also qualified to give initiations and commentaries. He currently teaches in the Masters Program at the Lama Tzong Khapa Institute.

Dettagli

Inizio:
2 November 2018 | 20:30
Fine:
4 November 2018 | 12:30
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Offerta minima consigliata
30 €

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