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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:
THE PEACE OF CONCENTRATION
In our modern life we can easily name so many things that we say we need and maybe can’t do without. But if we can realize the importance of concentration in our life, we will naturally wish to develop and improve it. This will make our meditation practice very powerful in creating mental peace and giving us the confidence to handle even the most challenging of situations.
In this set of two classes explore techniques for vastly improving our concentration skills, the key to both better meditations and a meaningful life.
Everyone Welcome. No Experience Necessary.
CURRENT SERIES:
The Peace of Concentration
June 14: The Importance of Concentration
June 21: Learning How to Improve Our Concentration (Followed by a two session mini retreat. See Familiarity & Focus)
Monday Rest & Reflect
Mondays • 7 - 8pm • $15 • Included in Membership
with Meditation Teacher, Eve Miller
CURRENT SERIES:
Softening the Heart and Taming the Mind
Buddha taught the Four Noble Truths to help us understand where our suffering comes from, how to alleviate it, and how to make our life meaningful. Join in this series to learn each of the Noble Truths and the meditations that stem from these teachings. You'll come away with a meditation toolkit to lessen your own suffering and to be able to benefit others in your life.
Everyone Welcome. No Experience Necessary.
CURRENT SERIES: Softening the Heart and Taming the Mind
May 25: NO CLASS - Memorial Day Holiday
June 1: Recognizing Our Spiritual Potential
June 8: Meditation on Kindness
June 15: The Benefits of a Loving Mind
June 22: Addressing Bad Habits with a Positive Plan
June 29: Flipping the Script - Seeing Others as Supreme
July 6: Seeing Others with Compassion and Clarity
July 13: The Power of a Humble Attitude
July 20: Examining the Selfish Mind
July 27: The Practice of Stopping Delusions
Prayers for World Peace
Monthly on First Fridays • 7 - 8pm • Free
NEXT CLASS June 5th
with Kadampa Meditation Teachers
"In recent years our knowledge of modern technology has increased considerably, and as a result we have witnessed remarkable material progress, but there has not been a corresponding increase in human happiness. There is no less suffering in the world today, and there are no fewer problems. Indeed, it might be said that there are now more problems and greater dangers than ever before." - Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
The pressures of the modern world can sometimes feel impossible to navigate. Balancing work, family, friends, and trying to find hope and meaning in the midst of life’s demands can be challenging. If you find yourself feeling lost and powerless faced with the horrors of war, famine, sickness and the many problems that plague our world, then you may benefit from Prayers for World Peace. You are invited to join us for a short teaching, a guided meditation, and prayers for peace in the world. This is a way to direct spiritual energy toward wishing happiness for all beings, through the process of correct imagination. All things arise from the mind, so if we can create a space where we imagine world peace, then we can make it happen together.
BRANCH CLASSES
Meditation in Ardmore
Class on Summer break - check back in the fall!
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 2
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.
Everyone Welcome. No Experience Necessary.
Please note, these classes are held in Ardmore, PA
CURRENT SERIES: The Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, Part 2
Mar 3: Remembering the Kindness of Living Beings
Mar 10: Equalizing Self and Others
Mar 17: The Disadvantages of Self-Cherishing
Mar 24: The Advantages of Cherishing Others
Mar 31: Exchanging Self with Others
Apr 7: Great Compassion
Apr 14: Taking
Apr 21: Wishing Love
Apr 28: Giving
May 5: Bodhichitta
May 12: CLASS CANCELED
May 19: CLASS CANCELED
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:
Developing a Meditation Practice
Just as doctors give different medicine for people with different illnesses, so Buddha gave different teachings for people with different problems and capacities. Through training in meditation we can learn to recognize our capacity for a peaceful mind, and eliminate the causes of problems in our life.
Everyone Welcome. No experience necessary.
Please note, these classes are held in Collingswood, NJ.
CURRENT SERIES:
Developing a Meditation Practice
May 13: Can we learn to be happy?
May 20: Meditation: The tool for learning
May 27: The benefits of meditation
June 3: How to begin meditation
June 10: How to meditate on the Buddhist path
June 17: The meditation on equanimity
June 24: The meditation on equalizing self and others
Interested in a branch class in your area?