Buddhist Science of Mind: Recognizing Confusion on the Path of Liberation
About this Retreat
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Younge Khachab Rinpoche is the spiritual director of Younge Drodul Ling and a highly accomplished master of Mahamudra and Dzogchen. His life and teaching are oriented toward one aim: helping practitioners turn the Dharma into lived experience.
Rinpoche received a traditional monastic education at Ganden Jangtse Monastery, where he earned the Geshe degree, and later served as Khenpo of the Kagyu monastery Thagten Nyingje Ling in Boudhanath. Inspired by the Rime masters of the past, he has studied extensively with accomplished masters across the Kagyu, Nyingma, Gelug, Sakya, and Bön traditions, integrating this breadth of training into a clear and practice-oriented path.
What distinguishes Rinpoche’s teaching style is that he teaches from the immediacy of practice, emphasizing understanding how and why the teachings work. His style is warm, precise, and uncompromisingly practical, meeting students where they are while steadily guiding them toward deeper confidence and continuity on the path.
Rinpoche is known for his accessibility and personal engagement with students. He takes a genuine interest in their progress, offering guidance that is relational and rooted in the long arc of practice rather than short-term experience.
He currently resides in the United States, where he continues to teach, write, and support a growing international sangha committed to keeping the Dharma alive through practice, integrity, and continuity.
Details of this retreat
This course continues the study of Lorig, the Buddhist science of mind and cognition, with an emphasis on how mistaken ways of knowing arise, how they function, and why they bind us only when they go unrecognized. Rather than approaching mind and cognition as an abstract philosophical topic, this course treats it as a practical investigation into how confusion operates in meditation and daily life.
By studying non-valid cognition in depth, students learn how the mind mistakes experience through memory, assumption, projection, doubt, and distortion, and how recognizing these processes naturally lessens obscuration and suffering. This recognition creates the conditions for valid cognition to arise directly in practice.
Grounded in the Mahayana path, this course connects the science of mind to refuge, trust in the Three Jewels, and the path of liberation, showing how clarity of knowing supports confidence, compassion, and responsibility on the path.
Course Objectives
By the end of this course, students will:
✔️ Understand the role of non-valid cognition within the Buddhist science of mind✔️ Learn how mistaken cognition functions and why it binds only when unrecognized✔️ Develop the ability to identify mistaken views and perceptions in their own practice✔️ Clarify how recognition of confusion naturally reduces obscuration✔️ Strengthen confidence in the mind’s capacity for valid cognition✔️ Connect how we know things truly directly to meditation, view, and conduct✔️ Deepen trust in the Mahayana path, refuge, and the Three Jewels
Weekly Course Schedule
This course will run from March 7-8 and March 14-15.
🗓️ Live Lectures: Saturdays and Sundays at 6 AM PT (8 AM CT)
All sessions will be recorded. Students will have ongoing access to lecture recordings and course materials throughout the program.
Course Fee
The full course fee is $108, which includes access to all live and recorded teachings.
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