Psychology of Meditation

Jonathan Barfield is a musician in the band “Niceness.” He also earned his PhD in psychology and has worked with many universities and institutions at the front of compassion and mindfulness research. He has published and lectured extensively on the relationships between the Dharma and Ecology in Seon temples and universities in South Korea. In the States, Jonathan teaches meditation and gives frequent dharma talks from the lens of buddhist and yogic psychology.

The mind is all together free. It’s also the source of our difficulty. In this experiential lecture we will explore the nature of mind, the nature of dissatisfaction, and the process of meditation through buddhist and yogic histories and psychologies of meditation.