Searcher Reaches Land’s Limits

Thought you knew your own mind? 

This program will deepen your understanding of the ongoing relationship between what you see and what you think, revealing a freedom within mind that is totally unexpected. 

Mastery – Level 200 Course – Prerequisite: Level 100 Course completed

Dates and Times

Term 1: Tuesdays, September 12th-October 24th, 10:00-11:30 AM PT 

Term 2: Tuesdays, November 7th-December 12th, 10:00-11:30 AM PT

Term 3: Tuesdays, January 9th-February 18th, 10:00-11:30 AM PT

Term 4: Tuesdays, March 12th-April 16th, 10:00-11:30 AM PT

Term 5: Tuesdays, May 14th-June 18th, 10:00-11:30 AM PT

Description

This one year course works through Tarthang Rinpoche’s Revelations of Mind, using Richard Dixey’s commentary, Searcher Reaches Lands Limits. There are five six week terms, totalling 30 classes overall, with a revision class at the end of each term, and a weekly movement class. 

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 freedom within mind that is totally unexpected. This new freedom is deepened until it can be accessed at any point- a true Revelation of Mind.

Format

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 your personal use only. Each week, there will be a short lecture followed by experiential practices and discussion. Weekly handouts will provide inspirational readings and the instructions you need to continue your experiential learning at home. An online community portal gives you the optional ability to meet and dialog with your fellow students. A review class is offered at the end of each term, and an embodied movement practice class is offered weekly.

Weekly Topics 

Term 1

Week 1: Ominpresence 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 I and Volume II by Dr. Richard Dixey

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