Integrating One’s Inner and Outer World through the Buddhist Science of Mind

Catalog description

Our lives have an inner world of thoughts and experiences that arise inter-dependently with our communities and the larger world around us. We develop ways of understanding and emotionally responding to ourselves and the world that can create suffering or well-being for ourselves and others. The Buddhist science of mind explores our mental processes, how we create interpretive projections onto ourselves and others that often lead to suffering, and offers tools for personal transformation, for understanding how the inner and outer worlds interact so we can change them with sympathy, compassion, and skill. A systematic presentation of the foundational teachings shared across Buddhist traditions is included in the course as context for understanding this rich exploration of Buddhist psychology.