MY MIND – MY FRIEND

How to Understand the Mind ~ A Practical Guide to developing & maintaining a light and positive attitude .
In this series of classes – following the extraordinary books „How to understand the mind“ and „How to transform your life“ by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso – we will begin to develop a clear understanding of the mind. We will discover how to engage in the essence of Dharma practice  by learning how to recognise and abandon states of mind that harm us and replace them with peaceful, beneficial states. This is the real purpose of being born human. Invaluable and practical advice for everyone.

“Happiness and suffering are parts of the mind; the former is a joyful feeling and the latter an unpleasant feeling. Since happiness and suffering are parts of the mind, if we want to avoid suffering and find true happiness we need to understand the nature and functions of the mind. At first, this might seem to be quite straightforward since we all have minds, and we all know what state our mind is in – whether it is happy or sad, clear or confused, and so forth. However, if someone were to ask us what the nature of our mind is and how it functions, we would probably not be able to give a precise answer. This indicates that we do not have a clear understanding of the mind.”