"Working on Emotions" February 22, 2009

Geshe Dorjee Damdul, the English translator to His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama, is to give a series of talks on emotions at Choe Khor Sum Ling, Bangalore for two days, on February 22-23.

The talks will present a path for working with emotions that is firmly grounded in the Buddhist treatises.

What are emotions? How do they arise? Can we discipline them? How to cultivate positive emotions like compassion, loving kindness? How to counter destructive emotions like anger, hatred, attachment, willful indifference?

Geshe La, well-versed in the Buddhist philosophy and modern science, will answer these questions in relation to the wisdom seeing the ultimate reality, interdependent nature of ourselves and world around us.

Among the topics to be discussed during these two days are universal compassion, wisdom of emotions and inner health, modern ethics, scientific discoveries, interdependence and spiritual path.

Geshe Dorjee Damdul is a distinguished Buddhist scholar, whose interest lies in the relation between Buddhism and science, especially in physics. Geshe La participated in several conferences on "Buddhism & Science", Life and Mind Institute meetings, dialogues between His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama and western scientists, incl. the famous dialogue on Emotional Awareness between Paul Ekman and the Dalai Lama which resulted in the book with the same title. Geshe La teaches Buddhist philosophy at the Institute of the Buddhist dialectics in Sarah, near Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh.





Schedule:

February 22, 2009, Sunday

10:00 AM – 11:30 AM: Universal Compassion & Modern Ethics

11:30 AM – 12:00 PM: Tea break

12:00 PM – 01:30 PM: Q & A session, general discussion



February 23, 2009, Monday

02:30 PM – 05:00 PM: Interdependence and Spiritual Path

05:00 PM – 06:00 PM: Tea break

06:00 PM – 08:00 PM: Q & A session, general discussion



Teaching is free and open for everyone.

Venue: Choe Khor Sum Ling Center, Ashwini, No. 24, First Floor, 3rd Main Street, Domlur Layout, Bangalore - 71 | Tel: 080 414 864 97, mob. +91 9845220563, +91 99869 44153.

Please visit our web-site - www.cksl.in - for directions and further information on activities at the Center.