COURSES: meditation, etc
(1) Courses: group and personal
Meditation, therapy, counselling, Buddhist psychology, etc.
For personal development, self-helping and other-helping.
A healthy mind in a healthy body.
(2) THE BUDDHA SEMINAR 1
Dharma teachings by Piya Tan
(small-group course for beginners and mid-range students)
- An update on the Buddha and his teachings based on the early Buddhist texts, living teachers and current researches by specialists.
- The purpose of this series is for us to have a clearer idea of Buddhism as it should be practised in the spirit of early Buddhism.
Title: The Buddha as Superman (maha,purisa): the 32 marks & 80 minor signs
Dates: 1, 8, 15 December 2011 (Thu) @ 7.30-9.00 pm
Venue: The Minding Centre
Charges: By donation (TMC needs & welcomes your support)
Course description
- Significance of the Lakkhana Sutta (D 30) and related texts
- What does the Buddha really look like?
- What were the Buddha’s 32 marks?
- From the brahmins or Babylonia?
- What are the 80 minor marks?
- How did the marks arise?
- The marks & rise of Buddhist medicine.
To download Buddha Seminar 1 flier.
For more information:
email: themindingcentre@gmail.com or call Ratna (hp 8211 0879).
To register:
Please download the registration form, complete it and email back to us at themindingcentre@gmail.com.
(3) Basic Buddhism Course
for a practical understanding and application to daily life
Dharma teachings by Piya Tan
Why did Buddhism arise in India?
How different is Buddhism from the systems of the time?
What are the basic teachings and trainings of the Buddha?
Dates: 5, 12, 19, 26 Jan 2012 (Thu) @ 7.30 – 9.00 pm
Venue: The Minding Centre
Charges: by donation (TMC needs and welcome your support)
TO REGISTER, please complete the registration form and email to themindingcentre@gmail.com; or contact hp 8211 0879 (contact Ratna).
Course description: [download course flier & registration form (pdf); (or MS Word version)]
1.1 How did Buddhism arise?
Social background of early Buddhism.
The reform movements versus established brahminism.
How the Buddha changed religion in ancient India.
1.2 Being good, without being religious.
Nature and significance of doubt. How do we know things?
Do we need religion?
What is goodness?
1.3 The three jewels.
The Buddha teaches us that godliness and goodness are within us.
His method is self-healing and mental health.
His goal: a community of healthy individuals.
Health makes wealth meaningful.
1.4 The three trainings.
We may be born human, but we need to become human, and we need to be socialized.
The first training is on “how to get along with others”:
a healthy environment for personal development (that is mental culture).
Both work to liberate us as true individuals.
Study notes will be provided.