Lesson series
Searcher Reaches Land's Limits (Term 3)
Meet Our Faculty
Description
Do you ever feel like life is happening TO you, rather than you feeling at home in your life? Do you wonder why you and most of humanity seem to be repeating the same often tragic missteps over and over? Have you ever longed to more fully harness the power of your mind and heart to live more deeply and meaningfully?
This flagship course at Dharma College explores how we construct experience moment to moment, leading to a sense of constriction and alienation, and how we can allow our innate freedom to manifest in the center of experience.
Searcher Reaches Lands Limits is a year-long in-depth exploration of Tarthang Tulku’s masterwork,” Revelations of Mind”, a profound engagement with the way our mind creates our experience, how we get caught in that creation, and how to work with our mind to open into freedom and joy.
Who the course is for
This course is for anyone who is curious about the mind, anyone who wants to expand their experience beyond habitual patterns of reactivity, anyone who longs to live more richly, and with more wisdom and joy. Whether you have experience with meditation, psychology or spirituality or if you are simply a person in the world, wanting to make more sense of your experience, this course is for you.
What you will gain
In this course you will gain knowledge you can use to work with your mind to free yourself from the narratives that define you and your world. You will learn how our minds are constructed, how they create a seemingly true and solid experience, and how you habitually react to and recreate that experience. You will learn how to loosen these patterns allowing for emotional resilience and mental flexibility, rediscovering freshness, creativity and joy.
Testimonials
“Superlatively organized and interesting. Dr. Lyon is a wonderful teacher.”
Rachel F. 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.
“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.
Format
Duration: Each section is 7 weeks (about 1 and a half months) of online classes.
Session length: 90 minutes (about 1 1/2 hours)
Access to recordings: Each class is recorded and available for personal use for 6 months
Weekly structure: Each week we read and discuss 2-3 chapters of “Searcher Reaches Lands Limits”, an in-depth commentary on” Revelations of Mind”. Simple contemplative or meditation exercises will be introduced for practice between sessions, allowing participants to work directly with their experience. Community Engagement: Questions and discussions will take place on our community portal, allowing class members to deepen their understanding and add to the discussion.
Weekly Topics
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 Lands Limits, a commentary on Tarthang Tulku’s “Revelations of Mind”, By Richard Dixey
Instructor
Dr. Kathleen Lyon
Dr. Kathleen Lyon graduated with a BA in Chemistry (Summa Cum Laude), from Rutgers University (Douglass College), received her MD from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and her psychoanalytic training from The Psychoanalytic Association of New York (PANY). She is a Training and Supervising Analyst on faculty at PANY, and the NYU School of Medicine, teaching at both institutions for over 20 years and receiving the Teacher of the Year award in Psychiatry in 2007. She is also a member of and on the clinical register of the Neuropsychoanalytic Association. A Buddhist practitioner since the 1990s. She is in the full-time private practice of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and psychiatry in New York City.
Instructor
Simon Cook
Simon Cook has a Geography Degree from Southampton University, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from Oxford University. He taught English Language to adults for many years, in the UK and Europe, and has taught Tibetan refugees in India. Simon did the Nine-month Kum Nye Tibetan Yoga Program at the Nyingma Institute in Berkeley in 1986/87. He works for the charity Age UK, helping older people. He teaches Kum Nye at a local therapy center.
Tuesdays, January 6th to February 24th with a revision on March 3rd, 10:00-11:30 AM PDT