Finding The Mind A One-Day Workshop With Mark Epstein,MD, Sharon Salzberg & Robert A.F.Thurman, Ph D

Event Details

When
Saturday, May 10, 2008 At 10:00 AM 
Where
Tibet House Gallery 
Details
Attendees are suggested to attend "The Absolute Self" evening workshop. 
Presenter
Robert A.F. Thurman, Sharon Salzberg & Mark Epstein 
Type
Day Long Workshop 
Register
Please register through the New York Open Center (NYOC) via 212 219 2527 x200 

About the Event

Once you have identified the self that cannot be found, some space opens up in the mind. Buddha invites you to enter that space. This workshop will focus on ways of knowing the mind. Is it in the brain? In the heart? What about emotional experience? Or reason? Various approaches to meditation will be introduced and practiced, with particular attention given to discussion of the Middle Path and the Central Way. Bob, Sharon and Mark will speak of their own experiences of the Buddha’s teachings in their everyday lives and will describe how the Buddha’s vision of the interpenetration of samsara and nirvana is still relevant today. D.T Suzuki’s famous comment, “The mind that does not understand is the Buddha; there is no other,” will be clarified.

Mark Epstein, MD, is a psychiatrist in private practice in New York City and the author of a number of books on the interface of Buddhism and psychotherapy, including Thoughts Without a Thinker, Open to Desire and his newest book, Psychotherapy Without the Self. He is clinical assistant professor in the postdoctoral program in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis at New York University.

Sharon Salzberg, a co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, The Barre Center for Buddhist Studies and The Forest Refuge, is the author of several books, including Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience and Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness.

Robert A.F. Thurman, Ph D, is professor of Indo-Tibetan Studies at Columbia University, president of Tibet House U.S., the translator of many philosophical treatises and sutras, and author of numerous books including the national bestseller Inner Revolution and, most recently, The Jewel Tree of Tibet: the Enlightenment Engine of Tibetan Buddhism.

A One-DayWorkshop
Saturday, May 10, 10am–5pm
Registration # 08WSB10S
Members: $120 / Nonmembers: $130

Please register through the New York Open Center (NYOC) via 212 219 2527 x200

(Click Here To Register Online)


About the Presenter

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Date: Saturday, May 10, 2008 At 10:00 AM
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Once you have identified the self that cannot be found, some space opens up in the mind. Buddha invites you to enter that space. This workshop will focus on ways of knowing the mind. Is it in the brain? In the heart? What about emotional experience? Or reason? Various approaches to meditation will be introduced and practiced, with particular attention given to discussion of the Middle Path and the Central Way. Bob, Sharon and Mark will speak of their own experiences of the Buddha’s teachings in their everyday lives and will describe how the Buddha’s vision of the interpenetration of samsara and nirvana is still relevant today. D.T Suzuki’s famous comment, “The mind that does not understand is the Buddha; there is no other,” will be clarified.

Mark Epstein, MD, is a psychiatrist in private practice in New York City and the author of a number of books on the interface of Buddhism and psychotherapy, including Thoughts Without a Thinker, Open to Desire and his newest book, Psychotherapy Without the Self. He is clinical assistant professor in the postdoctoral program in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis at New York University.

Sharon Salzberg, a co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, The Barre Center for Buddhist Studies and The Forest Refuge, is the author of several books, including Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience and Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness.

Robert A.F. Thurman, Ph D, is professor of Indo-Tibetan Studies at Columbia University, president of Tibet House U.S., the translator of many philosophical treatises and sutras, and author of numerous books including the national bestseller Inner Revolution and, most recently, The Jewel Tree of Tibet: the Enlightenment Engine of Tibetan Buddhism.

A One-DayWorkshop
Saturday, May 10, 10am–5pm
Registration # 08WSB10S
Members: $120 / Nonmembers: $130

Please register through the New York Open Center (NYOC) via 212 219 2527 x200

(Click Here To Register Online)