7pm Thursday 4th July 2024
Free to attend - all welcome - no booking required
Donations on the night will go towards supporting Rinpoche's UK tour
Held at The Buddhist Society in person and online
Details for joining the talk on Zoom:
https://thebuddhistsociety.zoom.us/j/84526768418
Meeting ID: 845 2676 8418
About the talk
Observing the workings of the human mind, early Buddhist teachers were very much like psychologists, determined to understand how people create their own suffering through desires and attachment to worldly things. They saw how the mind develops feelings of isolation by seeing the world in dualistic ways, rather than with a sense of unity and wholeness.
Spiritual teachers remind us that enlightenment is the goal of our journey, a state of irreversibility, once we achieve it. But how do we define enlightenment for those who have not begun seeking it? In essence, enlightenment is the awakening of the mind’s true nature by the process of purifying thoughts, removing obscurations, and dispelling dissonant emotions.
The aspirant, like the farmer, must clear his fields, ploughing them and readying the soil to accept the seeds being planted. Only then can he expect to harvest what has been sown. Meditation is the key to this process, to quieten the mind so we can truly see how it functions.
Chamtrul Rinpoche will gently teach us how to generate the mind to enlightenment.
About the Speaker
Eleventh in a line of recognized reincarnations, Chamtrul Rinpoche is from the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, the oldest in Tibet. Having trained under some of the most eminent teachers of the twentieth century, he is a master of the Buddhist teachings of Sutra, Tantra, and Dzogchen, and a renowned Khenpo (Doctor of Buddhist Philosophy).
