Introduction to Yogacara and The Transformation of Mind

In this talk, Dharma teacher Fred Eppsteiner introduces the Yogacara tradition's understanding of the structure of our mind and how it functions. He explains how understanding how the mind works in this way can help us be clear on how we need to work with our minds in order to free ourselves of suffering and develop a happy mind.

[@kentisann]

Beautiful introduction of Yogacara. Thank you for the teaching and upload.

[@lucianoevan1157]

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[@adonistrevor9539]

@Luciano Evan definitely, I've been watching on Flixzone for months myself =)

[@picketytwin]

thank you for this inspiring dhamma talk...

[@johnzapata2837]

TNH has a book, “Understanding Our Mind.” It’s an intro to the Yogacara teachings. I highly recommend it, y’all. 🙏🏽

[@Knaeben]

That book is very good

[@vinhngoc7208]

that book is so easy to understand

[@davidwearley7843]

Thank you 🙏🏽

[@UltimateArts13]

“Senses can be interrupted” Me the peekaboo king: yeah, yeah they can

[@entropia34332]

Bernardo Kastrup has independently discovered Yogacara. Check out his books

[@aleclyon1816]

He’s an idealist and believes all is mind. Yogacara belived in mind first as that’s our experience of the world outside mind but believes and outside world is there. They are different.

[@Octavus5]

@@aleclyon1816 To believe that there is a separate "outside" reality would not be right. That's dualistic. It also cannot be a kind of subjective or solipsistic idealism either. At any rate, what we perceive is only the world of form. What is this world of form? Just Mind.

[@Octavus5]

CristianJ I don't think one can come up with something "independently" in 2022 to the extent it resembles extant ideas. Whether Kastrup is familiar with Buddhism or not, the teachings of Buddhism are all around us and there is no way he can avoid being influenced.

[@williamcallahan5218]

I tried to listen cause I love the subject but it was torture. .

[@HundredWingZ]

Yanks ruin everything

[@arunenquiry]

Asanga and Vasubandhu technically were (or would have been) Pakistanis. Today they would have been persecuted by their fellow countrymen!

[@Melanie_Ryan]

Sounds very similar to Carl Jung’s teachings on the personal and collective unconscious and the Shadow concept.