Term 1
Week 1: Omnipresence of Mind
Week 2: Regime of Mind
Week 3: The clarification of experience
Week 4: Mind on Automatic
Week 5: Victims of our own display
Week 6: Self-identity closes the Regime of Mind
Term 2
Week 1: Opening the path
Week 2: Finding the calm state
Week 3: A staff for the Taklamakan
Week 4: Going beyond the known
Week 5: Deeping our enquiry
Week 6: Where were you when I laid the foundations of the
earth
Week 7: Review class
Term 3
Week 1: Transmigration
Week 2: The Maya of Time
Week 3: It’s labeling time
Week 4: Maya as creator; making a narrative
Week 5: Beginnings and endings
Week 6: Rushen
Week 7: Review class
Term 4
Week 1: No characteristics, no expectations
Week 2: Stopping the world
Week 3: A shift in the center of being
Week 4: Connecting to a cause
Week 5: Working with reactivity
Week 6: Overcoming Stoicism
Week 7: Review Class
Term 5
Week 1: Without foundation
Week 2: Seeing-knowing
Week 3: Tracking back the how
Week 4: Path advice for self
Week 5: Path advice for other
Week 6: Revelation of Mind
Week 7: Review class
This one year course works through Tarthang Rinpoche’s
Revelations of Mind, using the commentary, Searcher Reaches Lands Limits. There
are five six week terms, totaling 30 classes overall, with a revision class at
the end of each term.
Mind itself has rarely been the subject of
serious observation and sustained inquiry. This can reveal a way of understanding
that dissolves our problems and blossoms into creative freedom. As it is, beset
by misunderstanding, our world staggers from one crisis to the next. Imprisoned
by our own concepts, blind to the effects they have on our behaviors, it’s hard
to find a way forward. The path of understanding addresses these problems
directly. We’ll begin with how mind can examine mind, then explore inner
narratives. We explore how cognition is structured, leading to a new
appreciation of how we construct our experience. Closely coupling classes with
meditation exercises, we deepen our understanding of the ongoing relationship
between what we see and what we think, revealing a powerful freedom within mind
that is totally unexpected. This new freedom is deepened until it can be
accessed at any point, awake or asleep - a true Revelation of Mind.
Testimonials
" These classes the teacher, are of the highest
calibre- not presenting a comfortable, feel good meditation but expertly
presenting trusted tools to avoid getting trapped, tricked in the mind regime,
the perspective we have all been presented…how to ‘thaw, to ‘cut through’,
invite the dynamic interplay of Space, Time, Knowledge that is our true being,
the only real reality... "
Morgan M.
" Really helpful in helping me understand my
mind... answering questions I have had for many years. Look forward to more learning and study and
practice with Dharma College. "
Teri B.
" The course was wonderful - - Searcher is an inspiring book enhanced by
Kathleen's knowledge and passion for sharing the ideas contained within it. "
Jean D.
Classes meet online
for six weeks, for one and a half hours a week. Classes are recorded and you
will have access to the recordings for six months. Each week, there will be a
lecture (approximately one hour) followed by experiential practices and
discussion. Experiential practices to enhance learning are provided to explore
between classes. There will be a review class at the end of each term. An
online community portal gives you the optional ability to meet and dialog with
your fellow students.
William Wright holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology and Computer Artificial Intelligence from the University of California at San Diego, and an M.S. in Artificial Intelligence from The University of Oregon. William has been a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism and student of Tarthang Tulku since 1969, and a lifelong explorer in the Philosophy of Mind. For the last 22 years he has lived quietly in his remote forest home near the Summit of the Santa Cruz Mountains in California. He has recently come back down to town and is now fully engaged in the urban world.
