Wed 22 Apr
|Croydon Buddhist Centre
DON'T BELIEVE WHAT YOU THINK: 4-week Course to Make Friends with Your Mind
A course to explore Buddhist tools that help us work with negative or unhelpful patterns of our minds. Open to all levels, including newcomers. Suggested donation: £80 (waged) or £50 (unwaged).
Time & Location
22 Apr 2026, 19:15 – 13 May 2026, 21:30
Croydon Buddhist Centre, 98 High St, Croydon CR0 1ND, UK
Details
Our mind can be our worst enemy. It can be a bully, a critical parent, and a tempter all in one. Or it might cycle around in useless or obsessive thought, creating an alternate reality. But we don’t have to believe everything we think!
Our mind can also be our greatest friend. If we get to know our mind, and learn to work (and play) with it creatively, the possibilities become endless. We can dream great dreams, see new ideas and make them happen, and empathise with the experience of others. Instead of being dark and narrow, our minds can be open and creative.
What will we be doing on this course?
In Buddhism we have a term for unhelpful (or even harmful) thinking patterns: “papanca.” On this course, we’ll introduce the Buddhist understanding of the mind, explore what drives papanca, and how we can get free from it. There…