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...
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