Integrative Dharma Series: Buddhist Depth Psychology
A 6-Week Study & Practice at Mountain Stream Meditation
Teacher: Ken Bradford
Location: In Person and Virtual
Join us at the Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959.
Or join us via Zoom; see below.
Dates: Six consecutive Sundays: March 8, 15, 22, 29, April 5 & 12
Time: 4:00 to 6:00 pm PT
Cost: Our programs are offered on a sliding scale
$48 - ($8.00/Class: Partial scholarship price)
$90 - ($15.00/Class)
$120 ($20.00/Class)
$150 ($25/Class)
Pre-registration is encouraged by noon on Friday, March 6. The Zoom meeting link will be provided to all participants once registered and paid in full.
To register: visit https://square.link/u/QsmCrk1l
Your emailed payment receipt is your registration confirmation.
Scholarships: 1-2 work/trade scholarship positions available. In exchange for free attendance, you will work directly with Ken for weekly class set-up and support. Email Lauren for details, Lauren@mtstream.org
If you are in need of a full scholarship and are unable to offer service, no one will be turned away for lack of funds ~ please still come! Email Lauren for details.
If you would like to contribute to our scholarship fund, please donate here.
Course Details: The “Depth” in Buddhist Psychology is the insight that all perception is cognition; The insight that all experience occurs in consciousness gives rise to the psychology of Cittamatra, mind-only (also called Yogacara and Vijnanavada). This Mahayana view expands the Abhidharma understanding of 6 sense consciousnesses to 8, including a ground consciousness that persists through life and death. Thus clarifying how transmigration works and how the repetition compulsions of samsara - day to day and life to life - can cease.
This 2nd section of the Buddhist Psychology series follows last year’s study of the self aggregates (skandhas). Both sections are informed by Ken’s book, Opening Yourself: The Psychology and Yoga of Self-liberation, and apply the integrative practice mandala sketched therein. The book is available in the Mountain Stream lobby and Amazon. Taking the 1st section is not a pre-requisite for this one, but some familiarity with basic Buddhist Psychology will be helpful.
Week 1 - Introduction to Mind-only, shifting from content to process psychology
Week 2 - 5 bodily senses, the phenomenology of perception; calm abiding meditation
Week 3 - 6th sense: mind consciousness; inward sensing & analytic meditation
Week 4 - 7th consciousness: emotional reactivity; deepening felt sensing
Week 5 - 8th ground consciousness, karmic seeds; seeing through dualistic illusion
Week 6 - From Mind-only to the natural mind of Dzogchen; letting Open Being be...
Dana: During the series, there is an opportunity to offer a financial donation to Ken as part of the Buddhist practice of dana (the practice of giving and receiving). All offerings are gratefully received and support the continuation of the Buddha’s teachings. Ken Bradford Dana (Donation)
Bio: Ken Bradford is a contemplative yogin, author and Dharma teacher integrating a wide arc of Buddhist, Dzogchen and psychological thought and practice. His heart teachers include Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, Joseph Goldstein, Ruth Denison and Tsoknyi Rinpoche, among others. Formerly, he maintained a psychotherapy practice in the San Francisco Bay area and was Adjunct Professor at John F. Kennedy University and CIIS. His publications include Opening Yourself: The Psychology and Yoga of Self-liberation (2021); The I of the Other: Mindfulness-Based Diagnosis & the Question of Sanity (2013); and Listening from the Heart of Silence: Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy, Vol. 2 (2007, with John Prendergast); as well as numerous peer-reviewed articles intertwining psychology and spirituality. Website: www.authenticpresence.net