New York Insight

23feb10:00 am1:00 pmNew York InsightHalf-day online retreat

Event Details

Online: How Your Mind Shapes Your World – A Half-day Retreat
 
with Martin Aylward
 
Sunday, February 23rd, 2025 | 10:00am – 1:00 pm ET

Your mind can be a playground, or a prison. As Buddha reminds us in the first lines of the Dhammapada, an ancient Buddhist scripture, our mind-state directly determines our experience of the world.

This half-day of practice will be all about meeting your mind directly, and understanding how it shapes your beliefs and behaviors. Beyond spiritual clichés about creating your own reality, this day of practice will be something of a magical mystery tour through reality.
With teacher Martin Aylward, you’ll contrast the worldview of scientific materialism with the Buddhist concept of ‘Chittamatra’ (Mind-only), looking beyond both extremes (that things exist, and that things don’t exist!).
Join us for a deep-dive into the ‘Chittasphere’ as the location of all experience. We’ll dissolve inner and outer, we’ll see if we can bend reality a little, and what we can learn about mind, world and existence along the way.
Together, we’ll discover practices of:
– Recognizing and resting in the cittasphere
– Dissolving attention into experience
– Seeing through limited beliefs about mind and world

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Time

23/02/2025 10:00 am - 1:00 pm(GMT-05:00)