Searcher Reaches Land’s Limits

Mastery – Level 200 Course – Prerequisite: Level 100 Course completed

Dates and Times

Term 1: Tuesdays, September 12th-October 24th, 10:00-11:30 AM PDT 

Term 2: Tuesdays, November 7th-December 12th, 10:00-11:30 AM PST

Term 3: Tuesdays, January 9th-February 18th, 10:00-11:30 AM PST

Term 4: Tuesdays, March 12th-April 16th, 10:00-11:30 AM PST

Term 5: Tuesdays, May 14th-June 18th, 10:00-11:30 AM PST

Description

This one year course works through Tarthang Rinpoche’s Revelations of Mind, using Richard Dixey’s commentary, Searcher Reaches Lands Limits. There are five six week terms, totalling 30 classes overall, with a revision class at the end of each term, and a weekly movement class. 

Mind itself has rarely been the subject of serious observation and sustained inquiry. This can reveal a way of understanding that dissolves our problems and blossoms into creative freedom. As it is, beset by misunderstanding, our world staggers from one crisis to the next. Imprisoned by our own concepts, blind to the effects they have on our behaviors, it’s hard to find a way forward. The path of understanding addresses these problems directly. We’ll begin with how mind can examine mind, then explore inner narratives. We explore how cognition is structured, leading to a new appreciation of how we construct our experience. Closely coupling classes with meditation exercises, we deepen our understanding of the ongoing relationship between what we see and what we think, revealing a freedom within mind that is totally unexpected. This new freedom is deepened until it can be accessed at any point- a true Revelation of Mind.

Format

Classes meet online for six weeks, for one and a half hours a week. Classes are recorded and you will have access to the recordings for your personal use only. Each week, there will be a short lecture followed by experiential practices and discussion. Weekly handouts will provide inspirational readings and the instructions you need to continue your experiential learning at home. An online community portal gives you the optional ability to meet and dialog with your fellow students. A review class is offered at the end of each term, and an embodied movement practice class is offered weekly.

Weekly Topics

Term 1

Week 1: Omnipresence of Mind

Week 2: Regime of Mind

Week 3: The clarification of experience

Week 4: Mind on Automatic

Week 5: Victims of our own display

Week 6: Self identity closes the Regime of Mind

Term 2

Week 1: Opening the path

Week 2: Finding the calm state

Week 3: A staff for the Taklamakan

Week 4: Going beyond the known

Week 5: Deeping our enquiry

Week 6: Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth

Week 7: Review class

Term 3

Week 1: Transmigration

Week 2: The Maya of Time

Week 3: It’s labeling time

Week 4: Maya as creator; making a narrative

Week 5: Beginnings and endings

Week 6: Rushen

Week 7: Review class

Term 4

Week 1: No characteristics, no expectations

Week 2: Stopping the world

Week 3: A shift in the center of being

Week 4: Connecting to a cause

Week 5: Working with reactivity

Week 6: Overcoming Stoicism

Week 7: Review Class

Term 5

Week 1: Without foundation

Week 2: Seeing-knowing

Week 3: Tracking back the how

Week 4: Path advice for self

Week 5: Path advice for other

Week 6: Revelation of Mind

Week 7: Review class

Readings From

Searcher Reaches Land’s Limits, Volume I and Volume II by Dr. Richard Dixey

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