Digital Dharma
A six-week Buddhism course
Starts Wednesday 13th January 2027, 7.15pm – 9.30pm
Led by Sadayasihi and Varabandhu
To experience the Buddhist vision of reality, we need to apply its teachings to the specific issues of our lives. Nowhere are the dynamics of craving and contentment, suffering and freedom, clearer to see than in our relationship to our phones and other devices.
These devices mediate nearly every aspect of our lives – providing wonderful opportunities, but all too often leading us into a fog of confusion and negativity. And now many of us are interacting daily with AI: human-imitating language models that are reshaping our minds in ways we don’t fully understand.
The Digital Dharma Course uses ancient practices and modern tools to help us use technology more wisely, understand our minds more deeply, and clear the way for a more creative, meaningful life.
This course uses our relationship to screens as a practical starting point from which to explore the Buddha’s teachings on the mind.
First we will cultivate awareness — noticing what our tendencies are and how it feels to reach for distraction. Applying the teachings and practising meditation, we will explore our reactive patterns and discover a way to freedom.
The course will include short talks, discussion, reflection, meditation, and home practice that should be completed between each week of the course. Each week there will be a particular theme explored as follows:
Week 1 – Recognising the Reactive Mind: Awareness and how our minds operate.
Week 2 – Going Forth into Creativity: Unfolding the Creative Mind and reducing our technology use.
Week 3 – Thinking for Yourself: Becoming a True Individual.
Week 4 – Communicating with Depth: Low and High fidelity communication and spiritual friendship.
Week 5 – Acting in Accordance with Value: Introducing Buddhist ethics and where our use of technology fits.
Week 6 – For the Benefit of All: Exploring how what we do impacts others for the better.
Note: While meditation will be part of this course, you will not be learning how to meditate. Please see our other events for an introduction to meditation course.
When
Starts Wednesday 13th January 2027, 7.15pm – 9.30pm | For 6 weeks
Where
Dublin Buddhist Centre
Unit 5, Liberty Corner
James Joyce Street
Dublin, D01 N5H6
Sadayasihi learned to meditate in 2007 in the Dublin Buddhist Centre while she was training to be a solicitor, having had an interest in Buddhism since she was a teenager. She was ordained in 2016 and is current chair of the charity that runs the DBC, as well as leading a study group and teaching classes.
Varabandhu first came through the doors of the Dublin Buddhist Centre in March 2012 to learn to meditate as a response to suffering. He was ordained into the Triratna Buddhist Order in 2021 and has been leading meditation courses, Buddhist study and retreats since then. He volunteers his time to teach at the Dublin Buddhist Centre so that others can benefit in the same way he has.
This course is for anyone who wants to engage with a deeper understanding and practice of Buddhist teachings.
You don’t have to be a Buddhist to gain from this course; you don’t have to be particularly ‘spiritual’. All you need is curiosity, a desire to learn, and a willingness to put what you learn into practice.
Cost
We do tiered pricing, depending on the circumstances.
€150 waged
€120 low-waged
€90 unwaged
€75 for under-25s
A €50 deposit per person of this payment is non-refundable under all circumstances.
If you wish to cancel or transfer a booking, please notify us as soon as possible on info@dublinbuddhistcentre.org
Cancellation
- If you wish to cancel your place seven days prior to the event starting, a full refund minus the deposit will be offered.
- If cancellation occurs within seven days of the event starting no refund will be available.
Transfers
- It may be possible to transfer your place to another event if we are given sufficient notice (at least four days before the event is due to start) and there are places available on the alternative event.
- If the event you wish to transfer to costs more than your original booking you will need to pay the difference at the time of transferring in order to secure your place.
- We will refund the difference if the event you wish to transfer to costs less than the original booking.
- We will only transfer a booking once and no transfer will be possible once an event has started.