Workshop with Andrew Olendzki, September 29, 2018
Princeton Insight Meditation and The Princeton Dharma Practice Group (DPG) are pleased to co-host a workshop with noted Buddhist teacher and scholar Andrew Olendzki. This will be the first in our Princeton Dharma Workshops series, events led by both established and emerging Buddhist teachers, scholars and practitioners, that are designed to explore and integrate the study and practice of the Buddha’s teachings.
Listening to the Music of the Mind: Meditation Practice and the Buddhist Understanding of the Mind will be a three-hour workshop in which Andrew Olendzki will use musical practice as a metaphor for meditation practice and the Buddhist understanding of the mind. It will take place on Saturday, September 29th, from 10:00am to 1:00pm at Princeton University. The workshop will include lecture, discussion, and periods of meditation (both guided and silent). Further details about the workshop and Andrew Olendzki are below.
The workshop is open to the public and is suitable for anyone with interests in Buddhism, meditation, and the workings of their own mind. There is no charge for the workshop, although donations for the teacher are encouraged and will be accepted at the event.
Pre-registration is not required, although if you give us your email address, we can keep you updated on this and future events.
Andrew Olendzki: Listening to the Music of the Mind
Date: Saturday, September 29, 2018
Time: 10:00am to 1:00pm
Location: Lee Rehearsal Room in the New Music Building (Forum Level) of the Lewis Arts Complex, Princeton University (Alexander Street and University Place). We are deeply grateful to the Department of Music at Princeton University for their help in producing this event.
Parking: Free parking is available in the University’s West Parking Garage behind the WaWa at the Princeton Dinky Station on Alexander St. Metered parking available on Alexander Street and University Place.
Cost: Free (teacher donations encouraged)
For more information: Email workshops@PrincetonInsightMeditation.org
About “Listening to the Music of the Mind”:
Listening to music is a skill that can be learned and enhanced by practice. As one comes to understand certain formal structures of music, along with the unique features of specific genres of music, one’s ‘musical intelligence’ is enhanced and the experience of listening deepens.
The same can be said of meditation, the activity of looking closely at—or, one might say, of listening carefully to—the rhythms and melodies of the mind. In this workshop we look closely at the basic structures of the five aggregates and the six sense spheres, observe the steady arising and falling away of mind moments, and discern the difference between harmonious (wholesome) and dissonant (unwholesome) mental and emotional states.
The workshop demonstrates the basic principles of integrating study and practice, and helps develop enhanced skills of ‘phenomenological intelligence’. It consists of equal parts lecture and discussion, as well as sessions of both guided and silent meditation.
About Andrew Olendzki:
Andrew Olendzki is a Buddhist scholar, teacher, and writer living in Amherst, Massachusetts. He has been the executive director of both the Insight Meditation Society and the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, and has taught at numerous New England colleges. He is the author of Unlimiting Mind: The Radically Experiential Psychology of Buddhism (Wisdom 2010) and Untangling Self: A Buddhist Investigation of Who We Really Are (Wisdom 2016). He is the founder of the Integrated Dharma Institute, an online educational resource, and is currently a Visiting Associate Professor of Buddhist Studies at Hampshire College.
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