PhD in Buddhist Philosophy

PhD in Buddhist Philosophy

 

PROGRAM

 

First Year

1. The sense of existence
   Aging and fear of death
   Death and attachment
   On the fragility
   Relaxation of being
   The fullness and the art of good-die
   Grief, sadness and humor
   The meaning and purpose of life
   The existential action of choice
   Values and well-being
   Problem solving and life as a Path
   The useless suffering
   The courage against adversity
   Goodness, beauty and truth
   The creation and life as art
   Coexistence, politics and education of sense
   Maturity: decisions under uncertainty
   Success and failure of existential Project

 

2. Ironic Logical Philosophy
   Irony and Logic
   Magic and Politic of the word
   Birth and tradition of logic
   Inference and limits of language
   Dialectical discussion
   Negative argument
   Absence of conclusion
   Philosophy of irony
   Failure necessary
   Exclusion and the eulogy of the philosopher
   Image and abstraction
   Metaphysical Validity

 

3. The Philosophy of Nagarjuna
   The word versus emptiness
   Sources philosophical interpretations and works of Nagarjuna
   Genealogy of emptiness
   The Maya in the Buddhist discourse
   Metaphor as a meeting place and illusion
   Reason and the master’s ideas
   Causality, experience and identity
   The logic contingency of the absence of atman
   Orthodoxy, hierarchy and truth
   The secret and the power of silence
   hermeneutics
   The truth: conventional and ultimate
   The power of orthodoxy: use and abuse of the void
   The metaphor that was not: the religious
   The refuge of the paradox
   The philosophical tradition as spiritual revelation
   Identity as hermetic danger
   Persuasion and rhetoric spell
   The way to meet the Thing
   Dialectic as lexical substitution
   The question of the unconditioned
   Dependency and intellectual asceticism
   The beleaf as illusory attachment to the logic of the idea
   The absence of self and care-of-itself
   The proposal as philosophical reflection of being
   The speak as a metaphor of the speaking subject
   Artifact of silence and reduction to absurdity
   Dramatization against refutation
   Bodhisattva: The search for a nonsite
   Nagarjuna as edifying philosopher
   The causality of the future
   Anti-essentialism and Buddhist phenomenology
   Essence as lack
   Find, interpret and construct the Truth
   Nagarjuna’s constructivism

 

4. Meditation: observing the mind
   The supreme Vehicle
   Models and patterns of sitting meditation
   The secret cultivation of the awareness
   From the Absorption to Zen enlightment

 

5. Philosophy of Meaning

Logic and rule of the word

The secret of the Buddhist community

Exclusion of random

Technique and meditative creation

Attached word and errant word

Courses and drifts of the academic scientific discourse

The meaning as a filter

The master and the secret to two voices

Negation and identity of the ego

Poetic translation and philosophical translation

 

6. Buddhist philosophical anthropology

Existence

Desire

Unconscious thoughts

Language

Emptiness

Liberation

Meditation

Nirvana

The future of what is human

 

7. Genuine teaching of the Buddha
   Buddha and his Teachings
   Seeking refuge within himself
   Four Noble Truths
   Dharma Path
   The ultimate reality
   The true face of the Real
   Karma and Nirvana
   Buddhist meditation
   Cultivation and development of the penetrating vision
   Monastic Life and Society
   Integration through Meditation
   Full vision of existence

 

8. Subjective Reconciliation
   The analytic attitude buddhist
   The psychology of cyclic existence
   Consciousness and karma
   Cessation and buddhic Subjectivity
   Bliss Roads
   Meditation Techniques
   Compassion with otherness
   Wisdom

 

9. Stages of analytical Buddhist Meditation
   The preparation of the psychic
   Compassion with the Absence
   Development of equanimity and the source of sublimated love
   Identify the cause of suffering
   Wisdom
   Prior conditions for calm and the higher vision
   Practice of mental calm
   Update the higher vision
   Joining method and wisdom
   Stages of Meditation

 

10. The Art of Wholeness
    The purpose of life
    The innate source of happiness
    Compassion: a new model of intimate relationship
    Deepening relations with other
    Transformation of neurotic suffering
    Self-inflicted suffering and change of perspective
    Facing the Real
    Dialectical transcendence of obstacles
    Find significance of suffering
    How to face pulsional subjectivity
    Produce a change: spiritual values

 

11. Science and Buddhism
    The reflection
    The encounter with the scientific discourse
    Emptiness, Relativity Theory and quantum physics
    The Big Bang and the universe without beginning of Buddhism
    The evolution and karma
    A science of consciousness
    The spectrum of consciousness
    Ethics and the new genetics
    Science and spirituality

 

12. Wisdom, spiritual path and ecstasy

The desire of the sacred

Even in the Enlightenment: tears of sadness

The power of initiation

The doors of Awakening: affliction and emptiness

Satori and Unity: eternal present

Illumination forever

Beyond Satori

Wake emotions

Evanesce family karma

Helping the community Awakening the World to Becoming wise

 

Second Year

1. Master philosopher
   Scientific meditative research and spiritual search
   Psychology or philosophy
   The Phantom of the unconscious
   A science of the mind
   Buddhist metaphysics
   Action on the being-in-the-world
   Secular spirituality
   Wisdom, science and politics
   Rebirth of Buddhism
   Beyond faith, ritual and superstition
   The death
   Buddhism and psychoanalysis
   Spiritual tradition and counterculture
   Existencial progressivism
   Master <> Philosopher

 

2. Buddhism and some inferences of Western Philosophy
   The Dharma of the Stoics
   Kant and Zen
   Nietzsche and the Bodhisattva
   Sunyata and Octavio Paz

 

3. Mindfulness and Enlightenment
   Vipassana meditation
   Practice of Mindfulness
   Beneficial Factors for meditation
   Observation of mind
   Dynamic meditation
   Favorable psychic faculties
   Meditation with the five aggregates of Ego
   Transpersonal states of consciousness
   Practice of mindfulness in daily life

 

4. The Zen as a form of Love
   Off your shoes and become available
   Sitting down and find himself
   Do nothing and let go the reins of the ego
   Meditating taking new steps
   Cleaning and emptying
   Caring and helping others
   Cooking and nourish
   Facing the life blows
   Advanced Zen Practice
   Retirement and capacity for resistance to the world
   The Koan and existential problems
   Meet the Master: time to take vital decisions
   Making love: a single breath
   Illumination and encounter with being of others

 

5. The Way to Happiness
   Bodhisattva: being for the other
   Love of neighbor
   Sacrifice for others
   Great compassion
   Selfless love
   Learn from defeats and be victorious
   Taking and giving
   The Buddha Mind
   Meditation practice in daily life
   Training of the mind
   The Buddhist way of life

 

6. Dictionary of Martial Arts

 

7. Sources of Buddhism

Sutta Pitaka Brahmajala

Sutta Kutadanta

Sutta Dhammapada

Udana

Samanna Phala Sutta

Maha-parinibbhana Suttanta

Vinaya Pitaka Suttavibhanga

Mahavagga Cullavagga

Abhidhamma Pitaka

Dhamma Sangani

Lalita Vistara

Saddharma Pundarika

Vajracchedika Sutra

Hridaya Sutra

Lankavatara Sutra

Book of Great Extinction of Gotama the Buddha (Maha Parinibbana Suttanta Del Digha-Nikaya)

 

8. Zen in the art of therapeutic support
   Purpose of the practice
   postposition
   Compassion
   Equity
   Taoistic sublimation
   Fruits of Zen

 

9. Neurobiology and mystical experience

The ecstatic trance and the origin of religion

Passive and active techniques of ecstasy

Ecstasy: Shamanism and the Greco-Roman era

Christian ecstasy Eastern mysticism: Sufism and Buddhism

Unity and transcendence of Ego

Intuition: beyond the discursive intellect

Ineffability: beyond causality

Wellbeing: Beyond the transitoriness

Transformation of the conduct

Neurobiological foundations of mysticism

Nervous system and experience of transcendence

Amplified states of consciousness

Near Death Experiences

Neurophysiological basis of the mystical experience

 

10. Zen Buddhist Philosophy
    The real human being: without any range
    The field of consciousness in Zen
    The subject-object dialectic relation
    Consciousness and superconsciousness
    Ego Structure
    The world is Mind
    Ultimate structure of the Real
    Zen image of the human being
    Zen theory of consciousness
    The subject without Ego
    The nonsense in Zen
    The significance
    Speech and language of spiritual masters
    Ontology of the meaning of life
    Freedom of poetic articulation
    Distrust in discursive thought
    The meta-thinking
    The Koan
    Art in the Far East
    Satori Experience
    Outside’s internalization and inside’s externalization

 

11. Overcoming Dualism
    Theory of the essential
    Transcendence of dualistic thinking
    Trans-plurality of the world
    Trans-differentiation of subject-object
    Non-dual perception
    The apparent reality
    Buddhic Perception
    Buddhist phenomenology
    Nondual Action: wu-wei
    Intentionality and freedom
    Non-dual Thought: prajna
    Creativity and thinking without foundation
    The path of meditative thought
    Overcoming of ontological differences
    Deconstruction of Dualism
    Ego, substance and causality
    Close of the way of deconstruction
    The analogy space-time-existence
    The non-duality of the divine
    Non-dual Values

 

12. Buddhist Philosophy: unveil the mysteries of existence
    Birth, old age and death
    Buddhist Medicine and Disease
    Unlimited potential of life
    The multidimensional consciousness

 

Third Year

1. Essays in Zen Buddhism
   The Zen as Chinese interpretation of enlightenment
   Enlightenment and unconscious
   History of Zen Buddhism: from Bodhidharma to Hui-neng
   Satori: Revealing the Truth
   Instructional practice Zen
   Meditation and the ideal of the Master
   Stages of spirituality
   Function and meaning of the koan exercise
   An experience beyond knowledge
   Meaning of satori and psychological antecedents
   Factors determining Zen experience
   Zen discipline technique
   Importance and function of the spirit of inquiry
   Koan exercise and Nembutsu
   The exercise psychology Shomyo
   Experience and theorizing
   The secret message of Hakuin and Bodhidharma
   The theory of karma
   The Real: beyond the concept of the ego
   A new phase of Buddhism
   Psychology of passivity: acceptance of the Real
   Unconscious and passivity
   Emptiness
   Zazen: passivity and humility
   Zen and the philosophy of identity
   The first teachers
   The Chinese mentality
   Zen theories about the unconscious
   The Abandonment
   Study of the sutras
   The Bodhisattva Ideal
   The interpretation
   The giver of the essence
   Buddha from a Zen master
   The mind without abodes
   The desire for enlightenment
   Meaning and philosophy of Prajna-paramita-sutra kridaya
   Psychological document of zen experience
   Prajna: Vision of the guiding principle
   Maya and Sunyata
   The intuition of the unattainable
   Irrational and relative reality
   Buddhist Life
   NO-Ego and sacredness
   Methods of the buddhist realization
   Zen and the art
   Japanese Buddhism

 

2. The practice of Zen Apprentice
   Initiation
   Humility and Labor
   Service and Gratitude
   Life Meditation
   Verses and rules

 

3. Towards True Zen
   The Practical and zazen method
   Theory and practice of Zen philosophy
   Philosophy of the non-profit
   The spiritual attitude
   Zen and Science: Medicine and psychology
   Eastern spirituality and supreme wisdom
   Understanding the true self
   Composition and meaning of Shobogenzo

 

4. Spirituality and Nothingness
   What is spirituality?
   The personal and the impersonal
   Nihility and Sunyata
   Sunyata and Time
   Sunyata and History

 

5. The Way of the Tao
   Written Chinese Language
   Yin-Yang polarity
   Tao
   Wu-wei
   Tea: virtuality
   A new beginning

 

6. Poetry and Spirituality
   Poetry and Poem
   The poem
   The language
   The rhythm
   Verse and Prose
   The image
   The poetic revelation
   The other shore
   The inspiration
   Poetry and history
   The consecration of the moment
   The heroic world
   Ambiguity of the novel
   The disincarnated verb
   Signs in rotation
   Poetry, society, state
   Poetry and breathing

 

7. Fields of Zen
   Buddha and Zen
   Meaning of Satori
   The Mondo
   Prajna and Karuna: knowledge and love
   The synthetic and analytical approach of Buddhism
   Penetration of psychic reality
   The Ego
   Eckhart and Zen Buddhism
   Instruction of Soto masters
   Shin and Zen
   The faith
   The question as an answer
   Meditation
   Abrupt and gradual Enlightenment

 

8. The Way of Zen
   Antecedents: Tao Philosophy
   Origins of Buddhism
   Mahayana Buddhism
   Zen Development
   Principles and Practice
   Emptiness
   Do-Nothing
   Zazen and koan
   Zen and Art

 

9. Awakening of Zen Buddhism
   Development of Mahayana Buddhism
   Bodhidharma Message
   Aryan Path
   Spirit of Zen
   The triple question of being
   Zen and the Art of Japanese Culture
   Rinzai
   The Value of Love
   The symbol and Buddhism
   Fundamental ignorance
   Zen psychological exposures
   The spiritual ideal
10. Manual of Zen Buddhism
    Gathas and Dharanis
    The sutras
    Chinese Zen Masters
    Japanese Zen masters
    Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and Arhats

 

11. Living in Zen
    Life of Zen
    General study of meditation
    Koan: the approximation to the satori
    The Satori: Zen liberation
12. What is Zen?
    Hermeneutics zen
    Dhyana and Prajna
    Basic principles of Buddhist philosophy
    Mahayana and Theravada
    Historical Development and Zen schools
    The experience of awakening
    The purity of emptiness
    Zen method of learning

 

 

Fourth Year

1. Introduction to Zen Buddhism
   What is Zen?
   Zen is nihilistic?
   Illogical Zen
   The Zen as a superior affirmation
   Zen practical
   Satori and the acquisition of a new point of view
   The Koan
   Meditation
   Jung and Zen

 

2. The Art of Living the Present
   Zen through history
   Beyond words and things
   Towards the awakening of the self
   Emptiness
   The lighting and the plenitude of knowledge
   Meditation and illumination of the path
   Zen initiation through art
   Ikebana and Cha-no-yu
   Poetic voice: enlightened expression
   Sumi-e and the trace of atention
   Martial arts and the encounter of subjectivity
   Psychoanalysis: beyond emptiness

 

3. Zen and Self Analysis
   Self Analysis and Psychosomatic Medicine
   Body-Spirit Unity: Integral health and Zen
   Fundamental principles of the subjective development
   Living fully
   Evolution of psychosomatic concepts
   Zazen and self-analysis
   Psychophysiology of zazen
   Zen and self-analysis
   Zazen and knowledge
   Consciousness in zazen
   Groddek, between East and West
   Aspects of self-analysis Zen

 

4. The practice of the concentration
   Conditions of the concentration and the observation
   The righteous behavior
   The six basic attitudes
   The six domains of the senses
   Observing bonnos
   Methods of cure
   Symptoms and causes
   Zen Therapy: concentration, energy and imagination
   The influence of karma
   The unmanifested
   The spirit of the no goal
   The meaning of life
   Interdependency
   Nirvana and awakening

 

5. Teachings of Master Dogen
   The kusen
   Universal diffusion of the principles of zazen
   The seven principles of Dogen Zen
   The behavior of masters towards the apprentices
   Poems by Dogen
   Right practice of zazen
   A bright pearl
   Reaching the heart of the master
   The eight satori: Testament of Buddha
   The Samadhi and trans-wisdom

 

6. Zen and Neurophysiology
   Zen, consciousness and cosmos
   Zen and psychophysiology
   Zen perspective about the universe
   Causality and interdependent chain in Buddhism
   The third field
   The wisdom
   The physical realization of being
   Science and wisdom
   Consciousness and cosmos
   Nature and culture
   The subject as a body
   The bodily trend of surveillance and love
   Primacy of the sensible
   Wise imagination of the true
   The vital ascesis: lucidity of optimal desire
   Neurological education of the spiritual
   The mystery of the subjective ascension
   Immanence of the transcendent
   Well-being-in-the-world

 

7. Zen Praxis
   Dictionary of Zen Buddhism
   Ideological and historical data
   Bridge of union in a neurotic alienated world
   A parallel emergence
   Renovating and revolucionary meaning of life
   Essential aspects of Zen
   The Enlightenment, the Real and the learning
   The paradox as an instrument for understanding
   The precondition
   The essence of Zen
   Zen Immanence in the universal
   Zen and West: Modernity and daily life
   Zen in Western literature
   Zen and Psychoanalysis
   The inner path of the Art

 

8. Matters of a Zen Master
   The Middle Way
   The Ego
   Karma
   Illusion, desire and dissatisfaction
   Help the other
   The good, evil and death
   Awakening: satori
   The awareness of impermanence, here and now
   The practice of zazen, posture and tradition
   Zen and the West

 

9. The practice of Zen
   The abrupt way
   Here and now
   The secret of the warrior’s way
   Form and Force
   The essence of the way
   Silence and sitting
   The spirit of the gesturality
   Being
   Death and the fear
   Awakening and the eye of wisdom
   Zazen and daily life
   The orientation of Zen
   Concentration: unconscious thought
   Interruption of Karma
   Active evolution and dialectics of the wise
   Zen: health and suffering
   Koans
   The Supreme Wisdom
   Satori and zazen
   samadhi
   The phenomena and the essence
   Zen: ontology and phenomenology

 

10. The substance of Zen
    Zazen
    Simplicity
    Koan and paradoxes
    Satori
    Quietness and vigor
    The arduous task
    The Zen theory
    Psychoanalysis and Zen
    Zen and Philosophy
    The practice of listening

 

11. Transformation and Cure in Vietnamese Psychology
    The four foundations of consciousness
    Analysis of the sutra
    Methods for practicing
    Principles of mindfulness
    The four abodes of the attention
    The only path

 

12. About the Spiritual of Art
    The devastation of matter
    The motion
    The turning in the spiritual path
    The pyramid
    Color effects
    Theory
    The artwork and the artist

 

 

Fifth Year

1. The inner vision of Tibetan Buddhism
   The Four Noble Truths, the shelter and the master
   Dharma, compassion and meditation
   incarnation
   Confront death
   Encounter between Buddhism and science
   Interreligious Dialogue and the future of humanity
   Politics, Ethics and Responsibility

 

2. Buddhism: the satisfaction of the everyday
   Consciousness and inner freedom
   The dedication and visceral work
   Relaxation and appreciation
   Concentration and time
   Facing change
   Detachment of superficiality manipulation and competitiveness
   Share the utilization of psychic resources
   Self-awareness
   Communication, cooperation, humility and responsibility
3. The Spiritual Path of Love
   Reliving the greatest love stories
   From idyll to Spirituality
   The attraction of one being to another
   Evanescense of neurotic love
   Cortege with tenderness
   Intimacy, innocence and Desire
   The no surrender
   Attachment as false love
   The need for passion
4. Unusual wisdom
   Alan Watts and Krishnamurti
   Parallels between physics and mysticism
   Conversations with Heisenberg
   Geoffrey Chew and David Bohm
   Bootstrap and Buddhism
   Conversations with G. Bateson
   A new concept of mind
   Cartography of consciousness sorted by Grof and Laing
   Toward a psychology zen
   Change of medical paradigm: holistic approach of health
   Social and political dimensions of health
   Death and Life, Health and Plenitude
   New directions in economics, ecology and politics
   Feminism and spirituality
5. The Way of the Spiritual Warrior
   The warrior and enlightenment of society
   Renunciation and revolutionary courage
   The real heart of melancholy
   Fear, intrepidity and love
   Synchronization of psyche-soma
   The journey of the released
   Discover the magic of the sacred
   Narcissism and Overcoming Ego
   Govern the world of the sacred
   Authentic presence
   Spiritual Learning
6. Mindfulness meditation practice
   Integrity in therapeutic praxis
   Meditation to all aspects of life
   Detachment
   The radical face of Spiritual Love
   Consciousness of Essential Liberty
   Karma ethics Resolution
   Mindfulness as a cure of the malaise of the world
   Emptiness: the absence of center
   Sensorial world
   Supports, obstacles and types of meditation
   Possibilities of healing in body and mind
   Call to Being
   Healing the world: Mindfulness applied to politics
   The Dharma as evolution of Homo sapiens to Homo Illuminati
   Deployment of hidden dimensions of Being
   Viewing quantum reality in meditative perspective
7. The Way of Detachment
   Profound vision practice
   Dynamics and principles of Vipassana Meditation
   Meditation: Renewal of consciousness
   Contemplation and solitude
   Meditative Mind: Living in the present
   Beyond the pain and pleasure
   The high burden of Ego
   Sublimation: Having and Being
   Inside action
   The mission of the master and the central question of life
   Meditation as a path to radical transformation
   Towards a new culture
   Meditative scientific research method
   Rich Mind
   Opening to the unconscious
   The ethical life
   Noble search: action without accumulation
   Being and Becoming
8. Buddhist therapy to achieve healthy relationships
   Lasting happiness
   Understanding the dissatisfaction in the neurotic relationships *
   Causes of dissatisfaction: unrealistic expectations and resistance to change
   Satisfaction as Spiritual Union
   Accept the impermanence
   Sublimate the mind
   Meditation and developing peace
   Learning from past mistakes
   Overcoming of attachment through love
   Have courage and responsibility to change attitudes
   Impulse to help others
   Learning to forgive and heal
   The power of confidence, repentance, determination and restoration
   Sacrifice for the other
   Tireless compassion
   Spiritual Love: Bodhisattva vows
   Equanimity
   Joy and ispiration of the leader
9. Mindfulness in daily life
   Splendor of being present
   Catch the simplicity of the moment
   Practicing, maintain and awaken
   Eulogy and paradox of non-action: let it flow
   Patience and Letting go
   Generosity, trust and non-judgment
   Concentration and vision
   Meditation as a Way of full human development
   Meditation practices: static and dynamic
   Loving kindness
   Spirituality of Mindfulness
   Seated next to life
   Direct contact with the harmony
   Taking responsibility for one’s own existence
   Discovering Purpose in a connected world
   Nonviolence: Totality and Unity
   Singularity and Freedom
   Process of deconstruction of the ego
   Parenting as spiritual practice
   Obstacles in the path
10. Experience with fullness the life crises
    Use the wisdom to overcome stress, pain and illness
    Mindfulness: pay attention to the moment of existence
    Attitude and Commitment
    Healing Process
    Meditation: increase the dimension of Being
    Become aware of the body
    Strength, balance and flexibility
    Mindfulness and Everyday Life
    Holistic paradigm
    Integration and Healing
    Mind-Body: how emotions and ideas can get sick or cure
    Stress Reduction: changing lives
    Listening to the body: psychoanalysis of the symptom
    Body of pain
    Neurosis and its treatment
    The path of meditative consciousness
    Formal and informal practice of meditation
11. The awakening of the Self
    States of consciousness and lighting possibilities
    Divinity and Reality
    Automatization and evolutionary intelligence
    Operative thought
    Emotions and conditionings: live in the maya
    Hypnosis and consensual trance
    Identification and identity states
    Defense mechanisms against the imbalance of the Real
    Essence and false selfness
    The meditation practice: towards the awakening of self
    Observation and remembrance of the true self
    Higher levels of consciousness
    Spiritual reality
    The master’s work
    Compassion and Choice on the spiritual Path
12. Dilemma of Existence
    The phenomenon of life in Cosmos
    Unity subject-Cosmos
    Mind-nature
    Self-Impermanence
    Time-Eternity
    Universes
    Evolution of life
    Human evolution