We want to be happy, to be free from problems, how do we do this?
Through training in meditation and the meditations taught in Buddha’s teachings we can transform our life from negative to positive.
Each week we will explore one of the 15 meditations taught in Geshe Kelsang Gyatso’s book ‘Mirror of Dharma with Additions’ and learn how to put these meditations into practise both in a formal meditation and in daily life.
5th March:Â Meditation on the Preciousness of our Human Life
12th March:Â Meditation on Death
19th March:Â Meditation on the Danger of Lower Rebirth & Going for Refuge
26th March: Meditation on Karma
Easter Break
16th April:Â Meditation on Renunciation
23rd April: Meditation on our Determination to Recognize, Reduce and Abandon our Self-Grasping Ignorance, the Root of Samsaric Rebirth
30th April: Meditation on our Determination to Engage in the Actual Path to Liberation, the Three Higher Trainings
7th May:Â Meditation on our Determination to Attain True Cessations
14th May: Meditation on Cherishing All Living Beings
4th June: Meditation on Universal Compassion
11th June: Meditation on the Supreme Good Heart, Bodhichitta
18th June: Training in Meditation on Emptiness
25th June:Â Meditation on Relying on our Spiritual Guide
The teacher of this course will be Gen Kelsang Lhachog.
Gen Lhachog is the Resident Teacher at Uma Kadampa Meditation Centre. She has been studying, practising and teaching Kadampa Buddhism for over 20 years under the guidance of Ven. Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.
