Basic Buddhist Psychology 

Four week course on the ways the Buddha taught to understand how we construct and relate to our world of experience.

In the sutras of early Buddhist literature, the Buddha extolled a number of ways to understand how we construct and relate to our world of experience. These different methods of analyses are designed as tools to support our meditations that are so critical to the awakening of wisdom and the realization of one's true nature. They were not, as some people think, just topics for intellectual argument.

In this four-week seminar held on consecutive Monday evenings, we will examine three of these methods, The Six Sense Elements (Sanskrit & Pali: dhatu), The Five Aggregates of Clinging (Sanskrit: skandha; Pali: khandha), and Dependent Origination (Sanskrit: pratityasamutpada; Pali: paticcasamuppada).

Each session begins at 7 PM and ends at 8:30 PM, and will include presentations by Senior Tergar Instructor Edwin Kelley, discussion, and guided meditations.

This course is open to all who are interested. There are no pre-requisites for this course.

A voucher for free parking will be emailed to registered attendees.

About the Instructor

Edwin Kelley attended his first meditation retreat in 1975 and has practiced in both the Theravada and the Tibetan Buddhist traditions. He was Executive Director of the Insight Meditation Society from 1996-2003 and has a postgraduate diploma in Buddhist Studies. Edwin is a long-time student of Mingyur Rinpoche and Executive Director of Tergar International, the organization that oversees Rinpoche's activities around the world. (Read more...)