Online: Can We Meditate Our Way Out of Fear of Death?
with Paul Fulton
Thursday, April 27th, 2023 | 7:00pm – 9:00pm ET
One way to describe our human condition is that we are simultaneously motivated by our fear of mortality, and our need to negate that very fear. From this perspective, much of our conscious and unconscious lives, from our shared cultural and religious institutions down to our most private and idiosyncratic personal preoccupations, can be understood as an effort to manage that terror.
In this talk with clinical psychologist and Director of Harvard Medical School’s Certificate Program in Mindfulness & Psychotherapy, Paul Fulton, we will explore how this existential anxiety is described in Buddhist terms, and how neurosis can be understood as an expression of delusion. We will ask how meditation speaks to this primal fear, or if it does at all. We will explore how an existential perspective bridges much of our conventional understanding of neurotic suffering and Buddhist views of impermanence, emptiness, and suffering.
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Teacher(s)
Paul Fulton
Paul R. Fulton, EdD, is a clinical psychologist, founding member and former president of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy, and until recently, a board member of the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. Dr. Fulton is a lecturer, part time, in psychology at Harvard Medical School at Cambridge Health Alliance, and is Director for the Institute’s year-long Certificate Program in Mindfulness & Psychotherapy, a cornerstone of Cambridge Health Alliance’s Center for Mindfulness & Compassion’s training fellowship. He has lectured internationally on the integration of mindfulness and psychotherapy. He is co-editor and co-author of Mindfulness & Psychotherapy, 2nd Edition (Guilford), and numberous published papers and book chapters. Paul has been a student of psychology and meditation for 53 years, having received lay ordination in Zen Buddhism at age 19. He holds a doctorate in comparative developmental psychology from Harvard’s Laboratory for Human Development.