Four Foundations of Mindfulness

The Four Foundations of Mindfulness presented by Dr lan Coghlan – Jampa Ignyen

Every Wednesday 29th April to 10th of June at 7.00pm

Two thousand five hundred years ago the Buddha identified mindfulness as a central factor in our mental and spiritual development.
And even today modern psychology has rediscovered the benefits of mindfulness, for it applies this essential practice of mind training in mindfulness-based cognitive therapies.

In traditional Buddhism there are four types of mindfulness: mindfulness of body, feelings, mind, and phenomena. They summarize the practice of the path to enlightenment, they provide a means for addressing the deep issues in our lives, and by doing so create the conditions for genuine spiritual progress.

Our aim in this course will be to examine these techniques, how we may apply them to our current mind, how mindfulness can settle the mind, and how training the mind in mindfulness actually addresses deep seated mental habits that prevent happiness from arising.

This course is a great opportunity to explore these transformative ideas with a great scholar and wonderfully warm and accessible lecturer, don’t miss out!

Jampa Ignyen is one of the few western Buddhist teachers to have completed the Geshe degree at Sera Je Monastic University (20 years study). We are extremely fortunate to be hosting Jampa for this series.

Jampa Ignyen is an adjunct research fellow at the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies (SOPHIS), Monash University, Melbourne and currently works as a translator of Tibetan Classics, Montreal, Canada. He holds a PhD in Asian Studies and some of his specific interest include Buddhist metaphysics, phenomenology, hermeneutics and psychology. He became a monk in Dharamsala and then trained as a monk in the Tibetan Buddhist traditions for twenty years, completing his studies in 1995. His projects include the translation of the first book of the Compendium of Buddhist Science and Philosophy and the translation of Buddhapalita’s Commentary on Nagarjuna’s Middle Way.