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General Program Meditation Classes
Meditation is an essential life skill. Learn to meditate or deepen your daily practice. Find the class that's right for you.
CREATE MENTAL SPACE
“By training in meditation, we create an inner space and clarity that enables us to control our mind regardless of the external circumstance. Gradually we develop mental equilibrium, a balanced mind that is happy all the time.”
- Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Sunday Morning Meditation
Sundays • 10:30 – 11:45am • $15 • Included in Membership
with Resident Teacher, John Baker
CURRENT SERIES:
​​A Strategy for Change
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Training in Dharma, or Buddha’s teachings, is a method for discovering which parts of our mind bring peace and which bring problems, fears, and anxiety. Buddha called the latter delusions, because their only function is to cause suffering.
In this series of classes learn to see the various mental habits that we’ve come to rely on, and check for yourself to see what works and what can be abandoned. Plus, learn some new ways of thinking that will change how you see yourself and the world around you.
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Everyone Welcome. No Experience Necessary.
CURRENT SERIES:
Making Space in the Mind for Change
Nov 2: Letting Go of a Limited Self
Nov 9: Focusing on the Causes of Our Suffering
Nov 16: The Practice of Purifying Our Mind
Tuesday Rest & Reflect
Tuesdays • 7 - 8pm • $15 • Included in Membership
with Meditation Teacher, Eve Miller
CURRENT SERIES:
The Art of Transforming Adverse Conditions
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The ancient Lojong (Training the Mind) practitioners transformed their every day difficulties, pain, and challenging conditions into an inner pathway to peace and happiness. We can learn to do the same. By training our mind in meditation practice, we can learn to use everything in our daily life as fuel for developing mental strength, compassion and wisdom. Then, no matter what occurs - we develop and maintain a special experience of inner peace, mental flexibility, and happiness.
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Everyone Welcome. No Experience Necessary.
CURRENT SERIES:
The Art of Transforming Adverse Conditions
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Oct 21: Equalizing Self & Other
Oct 28: Gathering All Blame Into One
Nov 4: Meditating on the Great Kindness of All
Nov 11: Exchanging Self with Others
Nov 18: Taking Away Suffering by Means of Compassion
Nov 25: Giving Happiness by Means of Love
Dec 2: Mounting Taking & Giving Upon the Breath
Dec 9: Meditating on the Mind of Enlightenment
Dec 16: How to Train During the Meditation Break
Dec 23: Training in Every Activity by Words
BRANCH CLASSES
Meditation in Ardmore
Tuesdays • 7 - 8pm • $15 • Included in Membership
With Meditation Teacher, Julie Francisco
Common Space, 301 E. County Line Road, Ardmore PA 19003​​​​​
CURRENT SERIES:
The Stages of the Path to Enlightenment | Part 1
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​Meditation is a method to make our mind calm and peaceful. When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subsides and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within. In this class you will learn how to have a daily meditation practice, tools to overcome difficult states of mind, and methods to calm mental busyness and stress. Everyone is welcome. No experience is necessary.
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Everyone Welcome. No Experience Necessary.
Please note, these classes are held in Ardmore, PA
CURRENT SERIES:
​The Stages of the Path to Enlightenment | Part 1
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Nov 4: What is Lamrim?
Nov 11: Our Precious Human Life
Nov 18: Death and Impermanence
Nov 25: The Dangers of Lower Rebirth
Dec 2: Refuge Practice
December 9: Actions and their Effects
Dec 16: Developing Renunciation for Samsara
Dec 23: NO CLASS - Holiday break
Dec 30: NO CLASS - Holiday break
Wednesday Night Meditation in
Collingswood, NJ
Wednesdays • 7 - 8pm • $15 • Included in Membership
With Resident Teacher, John Baker
In Collingswood, NJ
Collingswood Community Ctr, 30 W. Collings Ave
CURRENT SERIES:
Learning to Meditate
Meditation is an essential life skill for modern times. Our life is changing all the time and at a pace that can make our head spin. Through learning to meditate we can unhook ourself from this hectic pace and find mental peace, understanding that peace is actually natural to our mind. Stabilizing this mental peace will then allow us to remain positive and peaceful even in a busy modern life.
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Everyone Welcome. No experience necessary.
Please note, these classes are held in Collingswood, NJ.
CURRENT SERIES:
​Learning to Meditate
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Sept 17: What is Meditation?
Sept 24: What are the benefits of meditation?
Oct 1: How to develop a habit of meditating
Oct 8: How to use the New Meditation Handbook
Oct 15: Meditation on the Preciousness of our Human Life
Oct 22: Meditation on Death
Oct 29: Meditation on Going for Refuge
Nov 5: Meditation on Karma
Nov 12: Meditation on Cherishing All Living Beings
Nov 19: Meditation on Universal Compassion
Interested in a branch class in your area?