HOW MADHYAMAKA CAN TRANSFORM YOUR PRACTICE

Buddhist philosophy is dry, abstract, difficult and irrelevant. Or is it?

This day workshop explores how Madhyamaka – the core of Buddhist tradition expressed as philosophy – can be a doorway into a progressively expanding comprehension of Dharma. It includes the power to transform everyday understanding and action, and escape escapism to engage skilfully in the world.

That doorway opens onto an accessible pathway from duality to nonduality, powerfully evocative of insight. Bring your curiosity.

Content will include:

• What the Buddha said to Kaundinya, Katyayana, Nagarjuna – and to us
• Essential Madhyamaka: the uses of logic in Buddhist practice
• What Sangharakshita means by ‘difficulties’ versus ‘problems’
• How dialiectical analysis points to Emptiness, or, what happens in a koan
• Practical skills: learn how to analyse a dialectical polarity for yourself
• What a win-win really is, and how to get one
• Imagining a practice beyond escapist naval-gazing; engaging with the world
• Detox: how to detect polarisation and see though populist propaganda
• Towards a Buddhist politics: why ideology is inadequate
• Building a community of practice around Applied Madhyamaka

Bring lunch to share.

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