What the Buddha Taught Class 4: Buddhist Psychology, the Five Skandhas
with Elaine Yuen
What the Buddha Taught Class 4: Buddhist Psychology, the Five Skandhas
with Elaine Yuen / April 20 2024 from 10 am to 4 pm
with Elaine Yuen / April 20 2024 from 10 am to 4 pm
Buddhists have long examined the workings of the mind uncovered through the practice of meditation. Join me in this one-day retreat/workshop where we will study key aspects of how mind is viewed in the Buddhist teachings. Skandhas (Sanskrit) or khandhas (Pāḷi) are often translated as "heaps, aggregates, collections, groupings." The Five Skandhas, a key Buddhist teaching of the Abhidharma, present a view of how our impulses, emotions, and sense perceptions interact to form our lived, moment-to-moment experience. In this class we will study the Five Skandhas as they are traditionally taught, as well as explore their meaning through experiential exercises.
Elaine Yuen is an educator, chaplain and researcher. She has been a student and teacher in the Shambhala community since the early 1970’s, and has been a Philadelphian since 1980. Between 2012 and 2020 she was a professor at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado where she taught courses on pastoral caregiving (chaplaincy), contemplative education and Buddhist studies. Elaine is deeply interested in how we shape our social interactions with caring and authentic presence. She continues to explore the interfaces between Buddhism, meditation, creativity, and contemplative caregiving. Her website on Contemplative Chaplaincy can be found at elaineyuen.com.
