Centre for Contemplative Learning and Research
Course Name: UNDERSTANDING MIND TO REACH OUR FULL POTENTIAL
Start Date: March 7, 2023, End Date: April 4, 2023
Day and Time: Five Tuesdays from 7:30 pm to 9 pm Eastern (New York/Toronto Time)
Fee: Freewill donation
Place: Virtual in the comfort of your home
Zoom Link for the course: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84002183579?pwd=bDFRSmZKdnNSY20wWHNoTTFYYUNTQT09
Register by sending an email to:
Shiv Talwar: shivtalwar@spiritualeducation.org, or
Jivasu MD: jivasu.natural@gmail.com
Course Description:
This course focuses on creating an understanding of the mind, its physiological correlate called the brain, how it is incapable of doing good knowing fully well where good lies, and how we can re-engineer its working for our own and collective good.
Topics:
1. Mental faculties and their roles (Samkhya and elsewhere) and their physiological correlates
2. Role of the mind, its innate instincts in living beings, its evolution, nature, and mode of existence
3. Patanjali’s Five types of chitta vrittis, the role of memory (smriti), its genetic foundation, their accumulation, and importance in human life
4. Afflictions of the human mind (five types of kleshas) that prevent us from pursuing our good, let alone the common good
5. The need for their abatement, attenuation, and cessation of distractions, the impossibility of their permanent prevention
Day – Tuesday 7.30 pm to 9 pm
7.30 pm to 7.45 pm – Somatic poses
7.45 pm to 8.45 pm – Exploration of the theme of the day
8.45 pm to 9 pm – Q and A
Start date – March 7
End date – April 4
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