How can we walk an inner journey in today’s world? How can we bring our inner values and qualities into the world? Can we make a difference? To do so, which inner qualities do we need to strengthen? How can we use difficulties in our favor? Could warmheartedness and wisdom be our main tools for a meaningful life?

The Journey

The course “Embodying warmheartedness and wisdom” focuses on how to bring our inner qualities into the world—and how to enhance them while living in it. It does so by presenting topics such as inner refuge, spirituality, and engaged compassion. It also includes helpful guidelines, such as the “six perfections,” or how to deal with difficulties and use them in our favor. In a way, it is a call for a revolution of compassion. It is complemented by references to current scientific understanding on prosocial skills, life satisfaction, well-being, and happiness.

The course gradually unfolds as a journey along different topics:

• Walking the inner journey in the world starts by reflecting on how to practice while living a life that includes daily activities such as work, and by examining in which things we trust to bring about lasting happiness, to move to the meaning of an inner path and refuge.
• A revolution from within reflects on how to bring this inner path and values into the world.
• Far-reaching attitudes explores some of the qualities that will serve as an aid in this journey, by way of the “six perfections”.
• Transforming difficulties explores ways to skillfully deal with difficulties—both in life and in our practice—and to even use them to our advantage, to bring about inner strength and resilience.
• Tools for the path deepens into it by using the tools and qualities we have been working with in this course—for instance, the sense of purpose, mental balance, warmheartedness, and wisdom.
• Walking the path concludes with an overview of the principal aspects seen along the course—which will also give us an overview of the meditations in the Buddhist path—and an exploration on how to establish a daily practice to continue this journey.

Buddhist Mind Science

This course belongs to the series of courses “Buddhist Mind Science: Activating Your Potential”, that offers practical knowledge and techniques about meditation, the mechanisms of suffering and happiness, how to find inner balance and how to discover and develop our potential as a person. The presentation includes references to scientific research. The different courses in the series can be taken separately. Read more.

Structure

The course will combine theoretical sessions, exercises and meditations. The format will be eminently practical.

Language

The course will be conducted in English with simultaneous translation into Spanish.

Co-Hosting Centers

Centre de meditació Tushita
Land of Joy, UK
Shantideva Center, USA

See an introduction to the series in the video above

Marina Brucet Vinyals was born in Barcelona, Spain. She has completed a six-year full-time study program Masters Program of Advanced Buddhist Studies of Sutra and Tantra at Lama Tzong Khapa Institute, Italy. She studied with great Tibetan lamas such as His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Lama Jampa Monlam and Khensur Jampa Tegchok, amongst others. She has also completed a one-year individual meditation retreat, amongst others.

She holds a BA and a MA in Biochemistry and a PhD in Molecular Biology in Immunology from the University of Barcelona, where she also performed postdoctoral studies.

Presently, she combines continual development and meditation retreats with teaching meditation and Buddhist philosophy, at both general and specialized levels, with an approach that always takes into account the context and circumstances of Western life.

Hans Burghardt holds a BA and a MA in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and a PhD from the University of Barcelona, where he spent seven years doing research. Since 2002, he meditates and is a student of great Buddhist masters including His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche, Lama Jampa Monlam, Khensur Jampa Tegchok amongst others. He has completed the Masters Program of Advanced Buddhist Studies of Sutra and Tantra at Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa (Italy) and has completed a one-year individual meditation retreat. He currently teaches meditation and Buddhism at Tushita Meditation Center Spain and other FPMT centers, and is co-founder and coordinator of the Initiative for an Emotional, Ethical, and Social Education, that promotes the establishment of Emory University’s SEE Learning in Spain.