The mind is the source of all development—material as well as spiritual. All of the achievements of modern science and technology, as well as all of our spiritual developments—such as wisdom and compassion—ultimately come from the mind. Understanding the mind is of crucial importance to the spiritual practitioner.
This is first in a series of lessons in which Gelek Rimpoche describes the basis of Buddhist psychology, the Mind and the Mental Faculties, based upon an 18th century commentary by Kachen Yeshe Gyaltsen, the teacher of the 8th Dalai Lama, which brings together important and practical features of this vast and sophisticated traditional system of Buddhist psychology, philosophy of mind and cognitive theory.