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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:
NEVER FORGETTING THE IMPORTANCE OF LOVE
It can be easy to close ourselves off from others and arrive at a belief that it’s not worth caring about very many people—that there is not much meaning in our relationships. In Buddha’s methods for inner peace and joy, we find great purpose in actually strengthening our love for more and more people. We can eventually discover for ourself that our own caring attitude is the key to a genuinely meaningful and fulfilling life.
Everyone Welcome. No Experience Necessary.
CURRENT SERIES:
Never Forgetting the Importance of Love
May 3: TBD
May 10: A Special Mother’s Day Meditation - Remembering Kindness
May 17: Love is the special method
May 24: Springtime weeding of the mind
May 31: What if everyone could be free from suffering?
Monday Rest & Reflect
Mondays • 7 - 8pm • $15 • Included in Membership
with Meditation Teacher, Eve Miller
CURRENT SERIES:
The Four Noble Truths
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:
The Four Noble Truths
Mar 23: 1ST NOBLE TRUTH: You Should Know Suffering
Mar 30: Taking the Long View and Making the Most of Our Life
Apr 6: 2ND NOBLE TRUTH: You Should Abandon Origins
Apr 13: Cutting the root of suffering; Self- Grasping
Apr 20: 3RD NOBLE TRUTH: You Should Attain Cessations
Apr 27: 4TH NOBLE TRUTH: You should Practice the Path
May 4: Higher Concentration
May 11: Higher Wisdom
Prayers for World Peace
Monthly on First Fridays • 7 - 8pm • Free
NEXT CLASS MAY 1st
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
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: Tranquil Abiding
May 26: Superior Seeing
June 2: Relying on a Spiritual Guide
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?