Meditation is a tool we use to understand, transform and heal our own mind. To fulfill our own and others' wishes for lasting happiness, we need to heal our mental continuum. We can accomplish this through the practice of meditation. Please join us for an inspiring talk by Gen-la Kelsang Jampa to learn about the healing power of meditation.
Monday Evening Class Series - The Art of Contentment: How To Just Be
In this course, we will explore insights, ideas and meditations from within Kadampa Buddhism to help us feel more at peace with simply being, not doing. We will explore and get a taste of practices that help us to relax, and be okay within the peace, the quietness, the natural stillness of our own mind.
So much of the stress and tension we normally experience comes from our mind, and many of the problems we experience, including ill health, are caused or aggravated by this stress. Just by doing breathing meditation for ten or fifteen minutes each day, we will be able to reduce this stress.
We will experience a calm, spacious feeling in the mind, and many of our usual problems will fall away. Difficult situations will become easier to deal with, we will naturally feel warm and well disposed towards other people, and our relationships with others will gradually improve.
We should train in this preliminary meditation until we gain some experience of it. However, if we want to attain permanent, unchanging inner peace, and if we want to become completely free from problems and suffering, we need to advance beyond simple breathing meditation to more practical forms of meditation, such as the cycle of twenty-one Lamrim meditations explained in
The New Meditation Handbook
by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Gifts from Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche:
Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso wishes so much for everyone to have access to these special practices that he requested Tharpa Publications to give these books away freely as ebooks.
Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA 98117 Ph: (206) 526-9565 e: info@meditateinseattle.org
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