Nottingham Buddhist Centre is taking part in an exciting new project, The Nature of Mind.

The mind is your most valuable asset and our most dangerous possession. It can be amazingly creative or terrifyingly destructive. Every experience we have, or could possibly have, is mediated through the mind. The health of our mind is the health of our life. From a Buddhist point of view our greatest danger is not realising the potential of our mind, and not finding ways of living out that potential.

The Nature of Mind is a season of events featuring prominent psychologists, neuroscientists, and meditators including interactive seminars, meditation masterclasses, and retreats. Each month there is a conversation with a prominent thinker on the nature of mind and their ideas are reflected upon afterwards in a seminar. This will be followed by a week of meditation guidance, applying what we’ve learnt to our own mind. The project culminates with an immersive retreat in August 2022 called Buddhism and the Big Questions: A Nature of Mind Retreat at Adhisthana.

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The Nature of Mind Online Events

Conversations

Watch and listen to conversations with some prominent thinkers from The Nature of Mind series. Recordings of previous conversations with Iain McGilchrist, Penny Sartori, Bernado Kastrup, Paul Gilchrist and Carol Bowman are available at the links below.

The Divided Brain: poetryEast with Iain McGilchrist - Part 1

What Happens When We Die? | Penny Sartori in conversation with Maitreyabandhu

Is Materialism a Fantasy? Bernardo Kastrup in conversation with Viryadeva

Compassionate Mind and Its Enemies | Paul Gilbert in conversation with Maitreyabandhu

Past Life Memories & The Mystery of Death | Vajratara in conversation with Carol Bowman

Peak Mind | Amalavajra in conversation with Amishi Jha

podcasts

Additionally you can listen to all the conversations as a series of podcasts here.

Seminars

Each conversation is followed with an interactive zoom seminar in which we’ll reflect on our guest’s work, ask questions, and explore how what we’ve learnt might impact our lives.

Previous seminars are linked below.

Meditation Masterclasses

Seminars in turn are followed by a week of online meditation guidance, applying what you’ve learnt to your own experience. You can access previous meditation masterclasses below.

Adhisthana Residential Retreats

The best conditions to explore the mind are on retreat, away from the pressures and responsibilities of your day-to-to-day life.

Local Events

Details of all local events in Nottingham to support The Nature of Mind series will be available in our What’s On section.