

Mind, Reactive and Creative
A five week course to break free from limiting habits and embark on a path to freedom
Starts Thursday 27th March 2025, 7.30pm – 9.30pm
Led by Vajrashura
One of the Buddha’s key insights is that our state of mind conditions our thoughts, which in turn condition our actions, and thereby our world.
This course explores the idea that the mind operates in two very different ways, and that the spiritual life is essentially a movement from one to the other. We have the choice of being either reactive or creative, not just once, but at every moment. We investigate just what that means in our own lives, looking at ways in which we can become less reactive and more creative, with a combination of teaching, discussion, meditation and practical exercises.
The path to Enlightenment, then, is one of ever-increasing creativity, and we look at one of the Buddha’s teachings in which he describes a sequence of ever-increasing creative states of mind, all the way to Enlightenment.
Participants will receive the ebook Mind, Reactive and Creative as part of the course.
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 – Three Big Ideas
We will be introducing the course and looking at three big ideas around the nature of Mind.
Week 2 & 3 – Mind Creates World – The Six Realms
Explores how the quality of mind creates the worlds we live in and how these worlds are represented on the Tibetan Wheel of Life as the six realms.
Week 4 – Watching the Gap
Explores the precious opportunity we have to move from the reactive to creative mind and find become free of cycle of rebirth.
Week 5 – Happiness and Beyond – The Spiral Path and the Enlightened Mind
Explores how the creative mind expresses itself as a path of ever increasing positive mental states and spiritual qualities we call the spiral path, reaching full fruition and maturity in a state of inexhaustible energy, wisdom and compassion that we call Enlightenment.
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 Thursday 27th March 2025, 7.30pm – 9.30pm | For 5 weeks
Where
Dublin Buddhist Centre
Unit 5, Liberty Corner
James Joyce Street
Dublin, D01 N5H6
Vajrashura started practicing yoga and learnt to meditate while in university doing a Masters in High Performance Computing. He firstly did these through university societies, and then in the Dublin Buddhist Centre. He has worked as part of the Centre Team since 2002 and in 2007 he joined the Triratna Buddhist Order.
Since ordination, he’s been one of the DBC’s main teachers, leading many courses, retreats, and events each year, and is concerned with helping people go more deeply into meditation and Buddhism. He also is helping coordinate the new retreat centre project and looks after the DBC finances.
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
Location: Dublin Buddhist Centre
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