Lesson series
Searcher Reaches Land's Limits (Part 1)
Level 200
Wednesdays, January 21st-February 25th 2026, 11:00-12:30 AM PST
Video recordings available for six months in a private community portal Text box with “more information” leading to an information page
Meet Our Faculty
Description
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
“This is a unique course about theory and practice of non-conceptual knowing/understanding. Richard Dixey is a clear and knowledgeable instructor and the content is grounded on conceptual, structured teachings. This series of classes have altered my view!”
Tania V.
“I’ve studied Buddhism for 40 years plus and the searcher course was a real eye-opener answering many questions that I’d puzzled over, all of this in my own language without any jargon. It really is a pleasure to take part in a course like this. A really interesting and unique course, a game changer and highly recommended”.
Andy W.
“This is a superb class–referring to the entire Searcher Reaches Land’s Limits series. Participants from widely different backgrounds engaged in careful, systematic reading of Revelations of Mind and the commentary, week by week, a few chapters at a time. The class is suitable for anyone who lives in a body and has a mind. It requires reading, contemplation, and engagement with the material to reap the benefits, but the support and guidance is there. This is extraordinary material and very, very well presented”.
Lauri H.
Format
Duration: Six weeks of online classes.
Session Length: Each class is one and a half hours (90 minutes) per week.
Access to Recordings: Classes are recorded, and you will have access to these recordings for personal use for six months.
Weekly Structure: Each week features a short presentation, experiential practices, and discussion.
Community Engagement: An online community portal allows you to interact and dialogue with fellow students between classes. An embodied movement practice class is offered weekly.
Weekly Topics
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
Readings From
Searcher Reaches Land’s Limits volume 1 and volume 2: A Commentary on “Revelations of Mind” by Dr. Richard Dixey
Instructor
Dr. William Wright
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.
Level 200
Wednesdays, January 21st-February 25th 2026, 11:00-12:30 AM PST
Video recordings available for six months in a private community portal Text box with “more information” leading to an information page