Not-Self in the Brain

Rick Hanson

Sunday, November 21, 2010 -

$50

10am–5pm

This workshop will address the thorny and fundamental question of . . . "me, myself, and I." The self–with its tendencies to grasp after possessions and take things personally–is perhaps the premier engine of suffering. We’ll explore the evolution of the apparent self in the animal kingdom, the ways in which the self is real and is also not real at all, and the underlying spacious awareness in which self appears and disappears.

Rick Hanson, Ph.D. is a a neuropsychologist and author of Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom (with Rick Mendius, MD; Preface by Jack Kornfield, PhD, and Foreword by Dan Siegel, MD). A summa cum laude graduate of UCLA who received his doctorate from the Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA, he founded the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom, edits the Wise Brain Bulletin, and writes a blog for PsychologyToday.com as well as a weekly newsletter called Just One Thing. His articles have also appeared in Tricycle Magazine, Insight Journal, and Inquiring Mind. He teaches regularly at universities and meditation centers in Europe, Australia, and North America, and has audio programs with Sounds True. Rick began meditating in 1974 and has practiced in several traditions. He was a board member at Spirit Rock Meditation Center for nine years and leads a regular meditation gathering in San Rafael, CA. Currently a Trustee of Saybrook University, he was also President of the Board of FamilyWorks, a non-profit agency. He is first author of Mother Nurture: A Mother’s Guide to Health in Body, Mind, and Intimate Relationships (Penguin, 2002). He and his wife have two adult children. For more information, please see his full biography at http://www.RickHanson.net. 

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