Buddhist Mind Science: Activating Your Potential
Module 1: Cultivating Lasting Happiness
From Tuesday 14 January 2025, 7.30-9pm GMT, six sessions
Online with Margo van Greta
Buddhist Mind Science: Activating Your Potential is a FPMT introductory course. This course introduces the Buddhist knowledge of the mind to provide practical techniques and insight on meditation, an understanding of the mechanisms of suffering and happiness, the tools to find purpose and mental balance in our daily life, and the means to discover and activate our inner potential for warmheartedness and wisdom. It does so by presenting both the Buddhist and comparative modern scientific perspectives to stimulate reflection and inquiry.
Module 1 Cultivating Lasting Happiness: What Buddhism and science have to say about it focuses on an exploration of what leads to dissatisfaction and suffering, and what contributes to happiness for oneself and others. The fundamentals of meditation and mind training are introduced, especially in the areas of establishing a meaningful direction in life, balancing the mind with equanimity and a caring attitude, and nurturing warmheartedness and wisdom drawn from the Buddhist tradition. It is complemented by references to current scientific understanding on our nervous system, values, subjective well-being, neuroplasticity and altruism.
This module contains 6 sessions:
1: A Universal Need
2: Are We Pursuing Happiness in the Best Way?
3: Following the Scent of Lasting Happiness
4: Meditation and Mind Training
5: Wisdom and Warmheartedness as a Source of Lasting Happiness
6: Enhancing Wisdom and Warmheartedness
Sessions include meditations, teachings and discussions.
You will receive a course manual for study and practice at home.
Module 1 Cultivating Lasting Happiness: What Buddhism and science have to say about it focuses on an exploration of what leads to dissatisfaction and suffering, and what contributes to happiness for oneself and others. The fundamentals of meditation and mind training are introduced, especially in the areas of establishing a meaningful direction in life, balancing the mind with equanimity and a caring attitude, and nurturing warmheartedness and wisdom drawn from the Buddhist tradition. It is complemented by references to current scientific understanding on our nervous system, values, subjective well-being, neuroplasticity and altruism.
This module contains 6 sessions:
1: A Universal Need
2: Are We Pursuing Happiness in the Best Way?
3: Following the Scent of Lasting Happiness
4: Meditation and Mind Training
5: Wisdom and Warmheartedness as a Source of Lasting Happiness
6: Enhancing Wisdom and Warmheartedness
Sessions include meditations, teachings and discussions.
You will receive a course manual for study and practice at home.
Where: Online
When: Tuesday January 14, 21, 28, February 4, 11, 18.
7.30-9pm GMT (UK)
Facilitated by Margo van Greta
Suggested donation £80/60/40
When: Tuesday January 14, 21, 28, February 4, 11, 18.
7.30-9pm GMT (UK)
Facilitated by Margo van Greta
Suggested donation £80/60/40
- £80: Generosity price: to financially support those without the means to participate.
- £60: Sustainable price: the regular price to sustain this retreat.
- £40: Subsidised price, for those on low income and in need of financial assistance.
Margo van Greta brings in-depth Buddhist practices into our Western culture. She has been involved with the Dharma since 1987 and is an FPMT registered teacher for Discovering Buddhism, teaches classes and holds retreats. She is the founder of Togme Sangpo Buddhist Group, which she started in 2012. She usually spends one month a year in retreat in southern Spain.
