Join Lama Alan Wallace for this two-day course exploring the inner causes of distress and well-being, helping us find inner freedom, peace and meaning in our lives.
About This Course
All kinds of events may lead to happiness for some and unhappiness for others; we are not all influenced in the same way by our circumstances. This suggests that the inner causes within our own minds have a more dominant role in our distress and well-being than external events.
After all, why do some people fall into depression even when living in very fortunate circumstances, while others maintain a sense of well-being even in the face of dire adversity?
In this two-day seminar, Buddhist scholar and contemplative B. Alan Wallace discusses different kinds of happiness and unhappiness—those that arise in response to external events and those that are generated solely from within the mind.
He then goes on to explain how we can identify the inner causes of distress and learn to remedy them, and to identify the inner causes of genuine well-being and learn to cultivate them – in order to find inner freedom, peace, fulfilment, and meaning in our lives.
This 8-part course consists of talks, guided meditations and Q&A sessions from this weekend event, filmed at the Park Plaza, Leeds in 2019.
The Teacher
B. Alan Wallace is one of the world’s leading scholars, writers, and teachers of Tibetan Buddhism, and an outspoken advocate for a revolution in the mind sciences, one that will replace the current paradigm of materialist reductionism with a new paradigm based on contemplative methods of inquiry into the nature and potentials of the mind.
With more than 40 years of formal studies in the Indo-Tibetan tradition (including 14 years as a monastic) and prestigious degrees from Amherst College and Stanford, he is uniquely qualified to bridge the gap between modern science and the time-tested approaches to contemplative practice preserved by multiple lineages. A student of the Dalai Lama and many other renowned teachers, he authored and translated more than 40 books on the philosophy of consciousness, Tibetan Buddhism and applied contemplative practice.
Detailed biography: https://www.alanwallace.org/about-alan-wallace/
Books by B. Alan Wallace: https://www.alanwallace.org/writings/books/
In Collaboration With
This retreat is shared freely with thanks to The Meridian Trust – Tibetan Buddhist Archive.
