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The mind, consciousness & well-being A non-religious exploration with PIYA TAN
Course Summary
Healing yourself: How the mind creates problems: two kinds of pain; perception.
The conscious body: Mind-body interbeing (the 5 aggregates & mental networking).
The unconscious: Are we really in control, or How can our mind work for us?
Minding the mind: Mental distractions and the nature of attention; consciousness.
The art of loving: Negative emotions & healing emotions; types of love.
Brain or mind? Neuroplasticity: how the mind grows the brain.
Don’t believe everything you think: Mental defences & emotional resilience.
Non-judgement day is here: Mindfulness in daily life: meditation on the move.
The still eye of the storm: The brain during meditation; cultivating a still centre.
Ancient wisdom, modern science: Scientific developments in Buddhist psychology.
Buddhist Psychology Intake 19
Instructor: Piya Tan
Date: 6, 13, 20, 27 Sep 2014 (Sat)
Time: 7.00 – 9.00 pm
Venue: The Minding Centre
Fees: $ 170 Incl course reader (2 bound volumes)
PIYA TAN, meditation therapist, was a Theravada monk for 20 years, and learnt Vipassana (Insight) meditation from Mahasi Sayadaw & forest meditation from Ajahn Brahmavamso. He has been teaching meditation since the 1980s, and has taught at the University of California @ Berkeley, the Defence Science Organi-zation, SIA, HP, Hitachi, BP, etc. He is personal meditation mentor to various individuals and has healed many people. Currently, he is translating and teaching early Indian texts on meditation and
psychology. He is doing all this for Ratna and their two children. Wiki Piya: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piya_Tan
Shenton House, 3 Shenton Way, #03-06 B, Room 5
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WHO SHOULD ATTEND? Health care professionals, social workers, care-givers, executives, clergy, managers, lecturers, teachers, parents, or anyone interested in the mind and mental health.
Open your inner eye:
Tap your true potential
The still centre in life’s storm
The Minding Centre, Singapore
BUDDHIST PSYCHOLOGY The mind, consciousness & well-being
Instructor: Piya Tan
Course Description
2014
1a Healing yourself Theme: The mind precedes all things
Text: Consciousness and Meditation: A random
survey of recent developments (SD 17.8c)
A brief survey of modern Buddhist psychology.
Buddhist psychotherapy as a way of life. False reality
and true reality. The six senses: what they are and
how they function.
1b Minding the body Themes: The 18 senses (āyatana): 2 kinds of pain
& latent tendencies (anusaya)
Study text: Nakula,pit Sutta (S 22.1/3:1-5). The
psycho-physical aggregates: the nature of body-mind
interaction. Interbeing: the connectedness of life and
environment.
2a The unconscious Theme: Latent tendencies (anusaya)
Text: The Unconscious (SD 17.8b)
How the mind really works, or are we really in
control. The mind according to early Buddhism: the
conscious, pre-conscious and the unconscious.
Conscious actions and latent tendencies. Why we are
often not in control of our actions (physical action,
speech and thought).
2b Mastering the mind Theme: Mental proliferation (papaca) Study text: Saññoga Sutta (A 7.48)
Overcoming distracting thoughts, and thinking
straight. Why we get distracted. What is a focussed
mind. Dealing with sexuality: suffering of being men
and being women.
3a The art of loving Theme: The 4 divine abodes (brahma,vihāra).
Study text: Brahma,vihāra Sutta (A 10.208/5:299 =
SD 2.10)
Neuroplasticity: how the mind grows the brain.
Dealing with one’s negative emotions and learning to
love oneself. Love (including mention of Erich
Fromm) and lovingkindness.
3b Don’t believe everything you think Theme: The roots of motivation (akusala,mla, kusala,mla) Study text: Khaluka Sutta (A 8.14/190 f = SD 7.9)
Defence mechanisms and psychological masks.
Motivation. Repression and suppression.
4a Non-judgement day is here Theme: Focus of mindfulness (satipahāna).
Study text: Satipatthna Sutta (M 10/1:55-63)
Open focus (mention of Fehmi’s ideas): how we
look at things. Dealing with one’s deeper emotions
through focus of mindfulness. Applying the four
stations of mindfulness to daily life. Present-moment
awareness. Conscious breathing and its benefits.
4b The still eye of the storm Theme: The 4 elements (dhātu) & non-self (anattā)
Study text: Mah Rhul’ovda Sutta (M 62.8-
17/1:421-424)
Dealing with problems, not with people.
Understanding change as a healing process. Inner
stillness.
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