Karuna's also a senior trainer for the Potential Project. This is a corporate based mindfulness training. And you can read more about it at www.potentialproject.com. And essentially
Karuna: Is this on? Hope I don't trip on the wires. Well first I'm very honored to be here. They told me I have to stand close
Karuna: Yeah, thank you, exactly, right. Now isn't it amazing, scientific, and materialism and it, and you know, see in Buddhist system of thought there is a science that can morph
Karuna: Study of! Study of the mind, right? Did you ever study the mind, have a class on the definition, the nature of mind in your study of psychology? No. Anybody else. In
Karuna: Mixture of colors, generally what would you say?
Karuna: You got shape, shape is I don't know how you describe the shape but you've got five digits, finger things. Ok, what's it composed of? Skin. What else?
Karuna: Right, right, ok so, we've had, there's more we could talk about the hand right? There's more uh, to talk about the
Karuna: Don't mean to sound dramatic, but that is what happens. So so the first thing is to really go hey, wow, I have this beautiful, beautiful opportunity precious life. Sure
Karuna: And because we have this default mode that that's, there isn't anything wrong with having the fish tacos, but you see, we're mislead. Misleading mind, ok, got that out
Karuna: Two minutes, Oh! Questions! Ten minutes for questions. Um, I really like questions, I hope there's some questions. Uh-oh.
Karuna: I'll just keep talking and I don't want to do that. Yeah.
Karuna: Yes. Male #3: >>Karuna: Yes, Ok, so you were asking about yeah, you were asking about uh that I speak mainly from the Tibetan tradition which is
Karuna: Ok why I am more invested in Tibetan than in other traditions. Um, that's correct, I'll answer the last part of the question first, the reason is only because of luck.
Karuna: Uh-huh. >>Female #4: I was always trying to get to that point like, where psychology was religion, or took a lot of Buddhism classes. And like
Karuna: Ah ha, so the question was uh, was there a defining moment uh, when I uh, decided to study psychology as opposed to religion? Yeah. Um, well fortunately, I listened to
Karuna: Oh yeah, uh, so, so Rachel was asking how to integrate more around developing spiritual approach to ones work, right? Throughout Google we could just say. Um, Hah, um, have a conversation
Karuna: The question was is there one thing on a individual level that we could do to
Karuna: It's a few seconds! Is that, I think that that's what's the word for me, someone help me with the adjective, that's not a that's pathetic, uh, hah?
Audience members: Preposterous Karuna: Preposterous! That's perfect. That's preposterous! We've had this mind for twenty, thirty, forty, fifty whatever years and we can't watch it for more than a few seconds?
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Ah, his Karuna Group Practice supplies the Buddhist psychology to people and organizations.
us. So very excited to have Karuna here today and again, thanks for coming. Please welcome Karuna. And I'll hand over mic. >>Karuna: Thank you.
Unfortunately, these middlemen NGOs, and Karumi Foundation is are a good example of those, are dying.
a little bit of background before he gets started. So Karuna, uh, spent twelve years working with Tibetan refugees in Nepal and studying the Buddhist masters in person live.
psychology. Psych means what? >>Female #1: Soul Karuna: Soul, what else? Soul, psyche >>Male #2: Mind Karuna: Mind, And -ology? >>Audience: Study of.
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Uh, his book is called "The Misleading Mind: How We Create Our Own Problems and How Buddhist Psychology Can Help Us Solve Them" So Karuna's going to talk a little about this today. And
he said to me, "I don't think he would have." This is in the film. I asked Tharcisse Karugarama,