FINDING INNER PEACE AND WISDOM THROUGH CALM ABIDING This year’s Easter retreat from 30 March to 2 April will be on the profound practice of calm abiding, the pathway to deep concentration and the ability to hold the mind on any object we like. Finding Inner Peace and Wisdom through
LEARN TO MEDITATE Five-week course from 1.30 pm Sunday 8 April to Sunday 6 May Meditation enhances your attention and makes your mind clearer, more stable and perceptive. Research shows many benefits for the psychological and physical well-being of meditators. This series of five classes introduces a range of foundation meditation
Our New Year meditation retreat from Saturday 20 to Saturday 27 January will be on the powerful, simple practice of mahamudra meditation. Mahamudra is known for its power to reduce stress, ease suffering and difficult mental states, generate joy, and as a healing practice. In this retreat we will practise meditation on
25 September – 8 October 2016 For those who have a Solitary Hero Yamantaka initiation, the Yamantaka retreat is an opportunity to spend time on and to deepen your meditation on the practice. Solitary Hero Yamantaka is a core Gelug practice. Yamantaka is the wrathful manifestation of Manjushri, the Buddha
If we’d like to bring more well-being and contentment into our lives, developing a still and peaceful mind is the essential foundation. The teachings on calm abiding show us how to progressively experience greater stillness and concentration. We do this by familiarising ourselves with the basic skills supporting concentration –
SATURDAY NIGHT DISCUSSION GROUP IS SUSPENDED FOR THE PRESENT Taking a Peak at Reality on Saturday nights Is life just a series of fleeting experiences or are we missing something far more profound? The Buddha explained that all the conventional appearances of the world have an ultimate nature of emptiness.
Four-week course from 7.30 pm Thursday 23 November Thursday night meditation classes return for the rest of the year, focusing on meditations which are at the heart of our happiness. These simple one-hour sessions will focus on creating kindness, peace and relaxation through meditations on love and compassion. In Buddhism,
Wednesdays from 7.30pm to 9pm. This class includes the practice of the Yamantaka sadhana. To be able to attend these teachings you must have received Solitary Hero Yamantaka empowerment. Yamantaka is in the class of the Highest Yoga Tantra practices. Students practising Yamantaka must have a sound basis in the study and
Mondays from 7.30pm to 9pm. This class is for students who have received empowerment, these sessions include sadhana practice, Wheel of Offering (tsog) practice, instructions and guided meditation in the traditional Tibetan temple, followed by supper. Geshe Acharya Thubten Loden’s commentary on the practice titled Path to the Union of Clear Light and
This seven day New Year Retreat will be held from 3 to 9 January 2016. The Medicine Buddha practice is specially for healing. It is helpful for treating both outer and inner illnesses. Outer illnesses are those we are familiar with. Inner illnesses are the afflictions of negative karma and