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Buddhist Mind Science: Activating Your Potential
This course introduces the Buddhist knowledge of the mind to provide:
- Practical techniques and insight on meditation,
- Understanding of the mechanisms of suffering and happiness,
- 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.
And it does so through presenting both the Buddhist and a comparative modern scientific perspectives to stimulate reflection and inquiry.
What will I learn?
The course is intended to address the needs of modern students, with a fact-based approach to the study of the mind and meditation. It is ideally suited for those:
- Open to learning about Buddhism with an emphasis on the practical integration of its teachings in daily life.
- Interested in the dialogue between the Buddhist and scientific perspectives when applied to the fields of study on meditation, the mind, compassion, or well-being, amongst others.
- Keen on developing a repertoire of tools, including meditation and contemplation techniques, to contribute to living meaningful, beneficial, and happier lives.
It is designed for people who may or may not have experience with secular or other forms of meditation.
Course Overview
The course is presented over seven modules, with a strong experiential component that invites everyone to reflect and check for themselves the different topics presented in the modules:
- Cultivating lasting happiness: What Buddhism and science have to say about it is an exploration of purpose in life and what leads to dissatisfaction and suffering, and what to happiness, for oneself and others. It also explores the value of warmheartedness and wisdom, and it lays out the general foundation for the following modules.
- Transforming the mind to cultivate lasting happiness focuses on meditation, mental balance, and emotions.
- Getting to know your mind focuses on the mind.
- Fundamental trainings to cultivate lasting happiness presents the foundations of the Buddhist paths.
- Wise paths to the heart focuses on warmheartedness.
- The nature of perception focuses on wisdom.
- Embodying warmheartedness and wisdom explores how to bring the values of warmheartedness and wisdom into the world.
For more details, download the Extensive Presentation of the Course and Syllabus for our Buddhist Mind Science course.
Courses Available
Togme Sangpo Buddhist Group, Scotland (Online only)
Presented by Margo van Greta, 6 sessions per module
Module 3 starting May 13, 2025. Register here.
Module 4 starting July 8, 2025. Register here.
Module 5 starting September 16, 2025. Register here.
Module 6 starting November 11, 2025. Register here.
Dorje Chang Institute, New Zealand (In-Person only)
Presented by Simon Harrison, in 6 sessions.
Module 2 starting April 27, 2025. More details here.
Kunsang Yeshe Retreat Centre, Australia (In-Person only)
Presented by Laurel Acton, in 3 sessions.
Module 2 starting May 10, 2025. More details here.
Dharmakaya Center, US (In-Person only)
Presented by Trey Lindon, in 4 sessions.
Module 2 May 11 – June 22, 2025. More details here.
Ocean of Compassion Center, US (In-Person only)
Presented by Geshe Tenzin Legtsok, in 4 sessions.
Module 3 starting July 27, 2025. More details here.
Introduction to the Course
View a recording of our recent Open Day presentation by the teachers for the course, Marina Brucet Vinyals and Hans Burghardt. This will explain the content and structure of this course, what you may expect to take away from it, and also to answer your questions.
In English: https://youtu.be/puGZqRGME0A
In Spanish: https://youtu.be/a2mRgMfibCY
You can also view a general introduction to the course in the following YouTube video: