How We Acquire Knowledge
Sundays, 11:15am – 12:45pm
October 8, 2017
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February 11
The Buddha advised us to thoroughly subdue our minds, as our
experiences — good or bad — arise from actions of our body,
speech and mind; with the mind being the principal creator
of action and experience. Regarding the mind, objects appear
to it and it apprehends them. Based on these two functions,
the mind can be identified and studied, especially in
meditation.
This course will use a traditional presentation of classes
of mind to understand how it acquires knowledge. The goal of
the course is to enable students to meditate on the mind at
its customary level of reality to provide the basis to
understand its ultimate level.
Root text: Explanation of the Presentation of Objects
and Object-Possessors as well as Awarenesses and
Knowers, by Purbuchok Jampa Gyatso.
Everyone is welcome!
Tubten Pende is a practicing Buddhist since 1972 when he was introduced to Tibetan Buddhism in India. Pende was included in the first wave of the FPMT’s Western Buddhist teachers. He was the coordinator of the Geshe Studies Program at Manjushri Institute, England; spiritual program coordinator, director, and later resident teacher at Nalanda Monastery, France; and an FPMT International Office Education Services program developer of the Masters Program at Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa, Italy. He is interested in the effective application of Buddhist theory and practice in the daily life of ordinary people.
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