Foundation Program September 18
September 18 @ 6:45 pm - 9:00 pm
Foundation Program
in person and live-streamed
This term of the Foundation Program is studying Part One of How to Understand the Mind.
This book offers us deep insight into our mind, and shows how an understanding of its nature and functions can be used practically in everyday experience to improve our lives.
This class requires enrolment but you can join at any time. It is possible to attend this class by live-stream if you are not able to attend in person. Please contact education@akbc.ca if you would like to sit in on a class at attend a pre-registration interview.
How to Understand the Mind
This book offers us deep insight into our mind, and shows how an understanding of its nature and functions can be used practically in everyday experience to improve our lives.
The first part is a practical guide to developing an maintaining a light, positive mind – showing how to recognize and abandon states of mind that harm us, and to replace them with peaceful and beneficial ones.
The second part describes different types of mind in detail, revealing the depth and profundity of the buddhist understanding of the mind. It concludes with a detailed explanation of meditation, showing how by controlling and transforming our mind we can attain a lasting state of joy, independent of expternal conditions.
