How We Create Our World : 21 - 28, 2025
How We Create Our World: Educating Ourselves Back to Sanity
21 - 28 Sept 2025
How We Create Our World: Educating Ourselves Back to Sanity
21 - 28 Sept 2025 7 Day Course
Taught by: Kabir Saxena
In an era marked by rapid change and uncertainty, many seek a path back to inner peace and clarity. “How We Create Our World: Educating Ourselves Back to Sanity” offers a foundational exploration into Buddhist principles, focusing on the transformative power of the mind.
This course invites participants to delve into the nature of the mind, understand the roots of suffering and happiness, and discover practical tools to transform daily experiences.
Through guided meditations, reflective discussions, and contemplative practices, students will learn to cultivate compassion, wisdom, and resilience.
Key Themes Include:
- Understanding the mind’s potential and its role in shaping our reality.
- Exploring the causes of suffering and the path to liberation.
- Developing mindfulness and concentration through meditation.
- Cultivating compassion and altruistic intention.
- Integrating Buddhist principles into everyday life for personal and communal well-being.
Whether you’re new to Buddhism or seeking to deepen your understanding, this course offers a supportive environment to embark on a journey toward inner transformation and a more harmonious world.
Details of the course
COURSE DATE: 21 - 28 Sept 2025
COURSE TEACHER: Kabir Saxena
FLAT COURSE FEE IN A DORM: US$ 175
The course fee includes all meals, accommodation in a dormitory and a free book.
Students can also choose staying in single, double and triple rooms with private or shared facilities. There is an extra charge for these type of rooms, please click here and use the red column to know the daily room charges, you will need to add these to the Flat Course Fee.
When you do your booking, please choose your room preferences in accordance with your budget based on this list. We cannot guarantee you will be accommodated in your first room choice, rooms are allocated by order of booking and are confirmed upon arrival.
Check-in time starts at 9 am on 21 September. The first session is at 5.30pm, please make sure to be here at that time.
Our reception opens at 9 am and closes at 5.30 pm, arrivals are due to be done only within these times.
The course concludes on 28 September with lunch.
Your daily schedule begins at 6.45 am and finishes at 9 pm. Participants are required to attend all session, attendance to all sessions is compulsory. Silence is kept from 9 pm till after lunch the next day.
Mobile phones and other internet connectable gadgets need to be checked in at the reception for the duration of the course. Read more on course guidelines.
During your stay at Kopan, please follows our strict dress code. Check if you are dressed appropriately for a monastic environment.
- 6:45 am – Morning Meditation
- 7:30 am – Breakfast
- 9:15 am – Teachings
- 11:30 am – Lunch & Break
- 2:00 pm – Discussion Groups
- 3:30 pm – Afternoon Teachings
- 5:00 pm – Tea Break
- 5:45 pm – Guided Meditation
- 6:30 pm – Dinner
- 7:30 pm – Evening Program (Talk, Q&A, or Meditation)
