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K2021-2: Neuroscience Retreat

20.05.2020 - 24.05.2020

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Br. Phap Xa, Br. Phap Luu, and Dr. Liam Kavanagh

How can neuroscience help us transform our own minds, becoming happy and free? Buddhist psychology, using first-person empirical research, teaches that two obstacles prevent us from seeing things as they truly are: the obstacle of our knowledge and the obstacle of our afflictions.

In this retreat, applying the latest neuroscientific research with mindful inquiry through talks, walking in nature, sitting and eating meditation, we explore how science and Buddhist psychology can help us understand how our mind operates. In this way we reduce suffering, cultivate more happiness in our daily life, and remove the imagined boundaries between body and mind, subject and object and brain and consciousness. The insight of non-duality provides a firm base from which to explore and interpret our experience, so we may learn how to take better care of our relationships, leading to more happy, healthy and fulfilled lives.

A tentative schedule for the retreat can be found here. More information on Dr. Liam Kavanagh - he helped organise the Neuroscience Retreat in Plum Village last year 2019 - can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hH1at0wVnlWA0YhdQFGcW_l6FR7aJNK9sS1baOsObc4/edit#gid=0

Course Language: English with German Translation

Brother Phap Luu


Bruder Phap Luu

Brother Stream (Pháp Lưu) is from the US and ordained in 2003. He graduated from Dartmouth College with a B.A. in English Literature in 1997 and also did non-degree study at Yale and Harvard in Buddhist Studies and Sanskrit before ordaining. He taught English as a foreign language in Madrid, Spain, and spent one year working part-time as a teacher in inner-city schools in New Haven, CT.
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Brother Phap Xa


Bruder Phap Xa

Thay Phap Xa is a Dutch Monk, who ordained in Plum Village in February 2003.
He lives Waldbröl since July 2010. He studied and taught Mathematics and studied Chinese Medicine for a few years.
He offers courses on different topics, like mindful hiking, tea meditation and enjoys the beautiful nature around Waldbröl....

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Liam Kavanagh


Liam Kavanagh

Liam Kavanagh
Art Earth Tech Director
Websitehttps://artearthtech.com
Liam Kavanagh is Director of research at Art Earth Tech, an organisation for people seeking a wiser world. Members are engaged in social change, and the Art Earth Tech's research exists to help create shared vision to bind together their work. AET’s research draws from the developing science of the mind, as w...

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