# Event Details

- **Event Name**: The Conditioned Mind: Views from Buddhist & Western Psychology
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 20 Jun, 2026 at 09:30 am – Sun, 21 Jun, 2026 at 04:30 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: In person at the Paramita Centre of Toronto
AND online via Zoom (link to be provided)
Saturday, June 20, and Sunday, June 21, 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM
$70 USD, $95 CAD (see details below)

Modern Western Psychology and Buddhist Abhidharma agree on more than most people expect. They diverge at exactly the point that matters most: what human flourishing can actually become. What does Western psychology genuinely offer — and where does its reach end? What does the Buddhist tradition diagnose more deeply, and what does it offer further? This retreat is a sustained contemplative inquiry into both questions.

The two traditions agree on much — both resist a substantial fixed self, both diagnose conditioning as deep, and both offer methods for working with the mind. They part company at the destination. Western psychology offers genuinely valuable relief within well-adapted life; Buddhism holds out happiness itself as the goal, with wisdom and compassion as the paths to attain it.

Across two days and eight sessions, the retreat examines what each tradition offers and where its scope ends; the nature of mind and the question of consciousness; the gross and subtle self and what an examination of each can disclose. It takes up the question of what continues — and how an unraveling of fundamental misunderstanding can serve a life of greater wisdom, kindness, and skill.

The retreat is not therapy and is not comparative religion. It is a sustained contemplative inquiry that integrates teaching with meditation throughout, appropriate for dharma students, mental health professionals with a contemplative interest, and educated lay practitioners with a serious interest in this material.

Les Kertay, teacher and director of the Paramita Center Southeast in Chattanooga, will be offering this teaching in person at the Paramita Centre in Toronto and online for students in both the US and Canada. Les brings to the teaching a fifty-year history in both clinical psychology and Buddhist studies. 

Registration is available in the US at: https://buddhismsoutheast.org/event/the-conditioned-mind-buddhist-philosophy-western-psychology-on-how-we-think-feel-suffer/

And in Canada at: 
https://www.buddhistmeditationtoronto.org/events/the-conditioned-mind-views-from-buddhist-and-western-psychology
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/toronto/the-conditioned-mind-views-from-buddhist-and-western-psychology/200030128515947
- **Event Categories**: health-wellness
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 223

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Toronto
- **state**: ON
- **country**: Canada
- **location**: 1834 Danforth Ave, Toronto, ON M4C 1H8, Canada
- **lat**: 43.68476
- **long**: -79.31812
- **full address**: 1834 Danforth Ave, Toronto, ON M4C 1H8, Canada

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is The Conditioned Mind: Views from Buddhist & Western Psychology being held?
  - **A:** The Conditioned Mind: Views from Buddhist & Western Psychology takes place on Sat, 20 Jun, 2026 at 09:30 am to Sun, 21 Jun, 2026 at 04:30 pm at 1834 Danforth Ave, Toronto, ON M4C 1H8, Canada.
- **Q**: Who is organizing The Conditioned Mind: Views from Buddhist & Western Psychology?
  - **A:** The Conditioned Mind: Views from Buddhist & Western Psychology is organized by Paramita Center Southeast.

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