COURSE INFO

Verifying Truth and Reality

How the Mind Discerns Truth from Deception

In our modern world, verification is essential – Verifying our accounts, verifying our identity, verifying our passwords. So how does our mind verify truth and reality? The more we understand how our mind knows and realizes things, the more we can understand how to gain authentic, verified spiritual realizations. This weekend course will explore how the mind experiences full realizations of hidden spiritual truths by moving from believing in things that deceive us (wrong awareness) to believing in things that do exist (correct belief) to actually verifying the truth of things (valid inference) to finally realizing the truth directly (yogic direct perceivers). This course will explain how contemplative meditation works and how profound meditations lead our mind to a deep and verified understanding of hidden truths. Join us this weekend to explore the mind and see how analytical meditation really works.

Teacher

Our Resident Teacher, Gen Kelsang Thekchen, is a senior meditation teacher in the New Kadampa Tradition.

Gen Thekchen has been practising and teaching Buddhist meditation for over 25 years under the guidance of Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. He is well known for his ability to present Buddha’s teachings in a simple, practical and often humorous way, making them easy to put into practice in everyday life.

Timetable

Friday:

7.30pm – 8.30pm: Introduction

Saturday:

10–11.15am: Teaching and Meditation

12–1pm: Teaching and Meditation

1pm Break

2.30-4pm Teaching and Meditation

7-8pm: Optional Wishfulfilling Jewel with Tsog offerings

Sunday:

10am – 11.15am: Teaching and Meditation

12pm – 1.15pm: Teaching and Meditation