Buddhist Psychology for Meditators

Deepen Your Practice. Understand the Mind.

Meditation offers far more than moments of calm—it provides a direct path to understanding the nature of the mind. Our Buddhist Psychology for Meditators course explores the timeless insights of Buddhist psychology, helping you connect meditation practice with a deeper understanding of your thoughts, emotions, habits, and experience.

Designed for meditators who want to move beyond technique and into genuine insight, this course combines traditional Buddhist teachings with practical reflection, enabling you to enrich both your meditation and your everyday life.

This four-week course runs on Saturday afternoons from the 7th to the 28th November at 2.00 pm in Senate House (South Block). To book go to https://www.ticketsource.com/university-of-london-meditation-group/t-aayayne

What You'll Learn

Throughout the course, you'll explore the psychological principles that lie at the heart of the Buddhist tradition, including:

  • The nature of mind and consciousness

  • How perception shapes our experience

  • The role of craving, aversion and ignorance in human suffering

  • The Five Aggregates (Skandhas) and the construction of self

  • The Four Noble Truths as a practical framework for psychological wellbeing

  • The Noble Eightfold Path as a guide to mental and ethical development

  • The cultivation of mindfulness, compassion and wisdom

  • Working skilfully with difficult emotions and habitual patterns

  • How meditation supports insight and personal transformation

Rather than presenting Buddhist psychology as an abstract philosophy, the course emphasises its practical application through meditation, self-reflection and discussion.

Why Study Buddhist Psychology?

Understanding how the mind functions is one of the most valuable supports for meditation practice. As your knowledge deepens, meditation becomes more than a relaxation technique—it becomes a means of investigating experience with greater clarity, compassion and wisdom.

By recognising habitual patterns of thinking and reacting, you can begin to cultivate greater emotional balance, resilience and freedom from unnecessary suffering.

The insights gained are relevant not only during meditation but in relationships, work, decision-making and daily life.

Who Is This Course For?

This course is ideal for:

  • Regular meditation practitioners

  • Students of Buddhism wishing to deepen their understanding

  • Mindfulness practitioners seeking a richer theoretical foundation

  • Yoga teachers and wellbeing professionals

  • Anyone interested in the psychology of human flourishing from a Buddhist perspective

While previous meditation experience is recommended, no prior knowledge of Buddhist psychology is required.

Course Benefits

By the end of the programme, you will:

  • Gain a clear understanding of the core principles of Buddhist psychology

  • Develop greater insight into the patterns and habits of your own mind

  • Strengthen your meditation practice through informed reflection

  • Learn practical methods for working with challenging thoughts and emotions

  • Cultivate qualities of mindfulness, compassion, equanimity and wisdom

  • Build confidence in applying Buddhist teachings to everyday life

A Journey of Insight

The Buddha described his teaching as an invitation to investigate experience for oneself. This course offers an opportunity to do exactly that—bringing together study, meditation and personal inquiry in a supportive learning environment.

Whether you wish to deepen an established meditation practice or explore the profound psychological insights of the Buddhist tradition for the first time, Buddhist Psychology for Meditators provides a thoughtful and practical pathway towards greater understanding and inner transformation.

Join us and discover how understanding the mind can deepen your meditation—and enrich your life.

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