BUDDHIST PSYCHOLOGY FOR MINDFULNESS MEDITATORS
But without a clear framework, it can be difficult to understand what exactly we are seeing.
Buddhist Psychology for Mindfulness Meditators is a 4-module self-paced course exploring some of the core psychological maps behind mindfulness and insight practice.
You’ll explore how Buddhist psychology differs from Western psychological approaches, how projection and identity function, how the five aggregates shape experience, and how dependent origination helps explain the arising of suffering and self.
ONE-TIME PAYMENT
TWO PERSPECTIVES
Western psychology and Buddhist psychology often explore similar human territory. But they do not always approach it from the same point of view.
WESTERN PSYCHOLOGY
“How can this experience be understood, processed, integrated, or healed?”
Its focus is often on making sense of our patterns, relationships, emotions, history, and identity so that we can function with greater freedom and coherence.
BUDDHIST PSYCHOLOGY
“How is this experience being constructed in the first place?”
Rather than beginning with a fixed self, it examines the processes that make up experience moment by moment: perception, feeling, mental formations, identification, reaction, and awareness itself.
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THEM
Both perspectives can be useful. And they can lead to very different practices.
The aim is not to decide which approach is better.
It is to become clearer about what each one is doing, when it is useful, and what changes when we bring mindfulness into the picture.
THE COURSE
Each module explores a different dimension of Buddhist psychology and its relationship to mindfulness practice, psychological integration, and direct experience.
MODULE ONE
Two different ways of understanding the mind.
Begin by exploring the different objectives, assumptions, and points of view behind Western psychology and Buddhist psychology.
This module establishes the foundation for the course and shows how mindfulness changes the way we relate to experience itself.
YOU’LL EXPLORE
MODULE TWO
Seeing through experience and working through experience are not always the same thing.
Meditation can help dissolve identification. Psychological work can help us process, integrate, and reclaim aspects of experience.
This module examines both movements and explores how to recognize what kind of practice a particular situation may actually require.
YOU’LL EXPLORE
MODULE THREE
A phenomenological view of experience.
Rather than beginning with a fixed self, Buddhist psychology examines the processes that make up experience moment by moment.
The five aggregates offer a practical way to observe the body, perception, feeling, mental formations, and consciousness without immediately turning them into a story about “me.”
YOU’LL EXPLORE
MODULE FOUR
How suffering, identity, and reaction arise through conditions.
Dependent origination is one of the central frameworks of Buddhist psychology. It describes experience not as fixed, but as a dynamic process unfolding through causes and conditions.
The aim is not simply to understand the model conceptually, but to begin recognizing the process directly in your own experience.
YOU’LL EXPLORE
WHO THIS COURSE IS FOR
Buddhist Psychology for Mindfulness Meditators is designed for people who want to connect contemplative practice with a more precise understanding of mind, identity, perception, and psychological process.
You do not need an academic background in Buddhism or psychology.
Some familiarity with mindfulness practice will help, but curiosity and a willingness to examine your own experience are enough to begin.
This course may be especially useful if you:
WHAT YOU’LL RECEIVE
A concise, self-paced training you can return to whenever these teachings become relevant to your practice.
Four structured modules exploring the relationship between Buddhist psychology, meditation, integration, and direct experience.
Thirty-three concise lessons, totaling approximately two hours of teaching.
A companion reference guide to help you revisit key concepts, distinctions, and frameworks from the course.
Begin immediately, move through the training at your own pace, and return whenever you want to revisit the material.
ONE-TIME PAYMENT
Self-paced · Immediate access · Lifetime access
SELF-PACED LEARNING
There is no cohort, no schedule, and no deadline.
You can move through the four modules in a few days, or take longer to sit with the material.
Many of the concepts in Buddhist psychology become clearer when you begin recognizing them in meditation and everyday experience.
So rather than simply watching all 33 lessons at once, give yourself time to notice what the teachings are pointing to.
Lifetime access means you can return whenever a particular concept, distinction, or practice becomes relevant again.
ABOUT YOUR TEACHER
Miles Kessler is an internationally recognized meditation teacher with more than 25 years of teaching experience and over 25,000 hours of meditation practice.
His contemplative training is deeply rooted in the Burmese Mahasi tradition of Vipassana meditation, including intensive study and practice with teachers such as Sayadaw U Pandita and Vivekananda.
Alongside meditation, Miles brings decades of experience in Aikido, embodiment, developmental practice, relational work, and conflict transformation.
This gives his teaching a distinctly integrative orientation: contemplative insight is not treated as separate from psychology, development, the body, relationships, or the demands of everyday life.
Learn More About MilesSTUDENT EXPERIENCE
“This workshop really brings Buddhist Psychology to life! Miles presents this training with clear knowledge of both Buddhist Psychology and mindfulness meditation. Give this gift for yourself!”
- Ingrid, The Netherlands
SeeTrue Mindfulness Teacher Training Participant
“With a lot of humor, Miles took us into the world of Buddhist Psychology. He made this potentially boring subject light and fun. He embodies mindful attitudes to the maximum. It was a great training!”
- Jeanne, Belgium
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“Miles has a unique way of guiding which allowed me to get to the truth of my soul and unleash the shadows within. I'm now able to be with my meditative practice for longer periods with curiosity and patience. He is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.”
- Amy, U.S.A.
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Buddhist Psychology for Mindfulness Meditators is a self-paced course designed to help practitioners understand the psychological framework behind Buddhist meditation more clearly.
This course is designed for mindfulness meditators who want a clearer understanding of the psychological framework behind Buddhist practice.
It is especially useful if you are curious about how Buddhist psychology understands identity, experience, suffering, and liberation.
No. You do not need prior study of Buddhist philosophy or psychology.
The course introduces the core ideas in a way that connects them directly to meditation practice and lived experience.
The course is organized into four modules exploring the relationship between Western and Buddhist approaches to psychology, liberation and integration, the five aggregates, and dependent origination.
The emphasis is not simply on learning concepts, but on seeing how these frameworks illuminate direct experience.
The course is primarily educational and contemplative rather than a guided meditation program.
Its purpose is to deepen your understanding of meditation by giving you a more precise way to understand the mind, experience, and the process of liberation described in Buddhist psychology.
The course includes 4 modules and 33 video lessons, with approximately 2 hours of teaching in total.
Because the material is conceptually rich, you may find it useful to move slowly and give yourself time to reflect between modules.
Your enrollment includes all 4 course modules, 33 video lessons, a PDF Reference Guide, and lifetime access to the complete course.
There is no required schedule.
The course is self-paced, and it is often more useful to let the ideas settle rather than trying to absorb everything in one sitting.
A useful question to keep returning to is: Can I recognize this in my own experience?
No. This version of Buddhist Psychology for Mindfulness Meditators is fully self-paced and does not include live sessions or live Q&A.
You receive lifetime access to the complete course and can return to the lessons and reference guide whenever they become useful again.
Buddhist Psychology for Mindfulness Meditators is $97 as a one-time payment.
Your enrollment includes immediate access and lifetime access to the complete self-paced course.
READY TO BEGIN?
Buddhist psychology is not just something to understand.
It is a framework for noticing how experience is constructed, how identification forms, and where greater freedom may become possible.
This course gives you a practical way into that exploration.
See you in the deep end.
Get started today before this once in a lifetime opportunity expires.