Our Meditation Classes
Our General Program Classes
A highly accessible program designed to address everyday problems with simple and practical advice from Buddha’s teachings as well as guided meditations.
These classes and courses provide a basic introduction to Buddhist teachings and meditations. Through these we can learn how to use Buddha’s advice as a solution to our daily problems. In this way we come to experience a sense of peace and happiness in our lives.
Our Sunday afternoon, Tuesday morning and Wednesday evening classes cover a different topic or ‘series’ each month. The Sunday class and the Wednesday class weekly topic is the same. Each series looks at an aspect of Buddha’s teaching with advice on how to practically integrate the wisdom and experience of that teaching into our daily life. By practically applying Buddha’s wisdom into our daily life, we will experience the benefits of meditation and overcome the negative feelings and thoughts that continuously bring us down.
Our Thursday evening class – the Happiness Toolkit – follows the book How to Transform Your Life with teachings and meditations to deepen our inner peace.
Join us for our Meditations for World Peace class on Sunday morning. Our meditation classes on Sunday mornings are by donation. We also offer lunchtime meditations during the week. Scroll below for more information on our upcoming classes.
What to Expect in a Class
Our meditation classes are for anyone interested in learning how to meditate, regardless of background or beliefs. Classes are designed to give a broad introduction to Buddhist meditation, teachings, and practice.
Every class includes a chance to practise meditation. No prior experience, special equipment or special clothes are necessary for our onsite classes – just come as you are.
Classes are all standalone individual classes that are presented in a series. You do not need to attend the full series to attend a class.
New Topics this Fall
Our series of classes this fall are based on understanding how the world around us is a reflection of our mind, and gaining a deeper understanding of the mind itself. We will focus on those positive minds that we all have within us – minds that are causes of happiness. By increasing these positive minds, we will gain more merit and power in the mind. In this way we will open our mind to a joyful, creative and game changing approach to experiencing our lives and our relationships.
Class Series Topics
Wake Up Smiling
September meditation series
Buddha’s wisdom, we can start to look at life with a different perspective, a wisdom perspective. This wisdom insight brings us energy and joy. Instead of looking at the world in an ordinary way, we can wake up smiling every day ready to meet the opportunities of the day.
Some topics explored in this series:
1. Believing in Potential for Happiness
2. Admiring our Own Potential
3. Becoming the Best Self We Can Be
4. Meeting the World of Opportunity
Join Gen Kelsang Kunden as we meditate and contemplate on Buddhist wisdom that will increase the natural virtue of faith within our mind.
This book is based on How to Understand the Mind and How to Transform Your Life.
Reflecting the Beauty Within
October meditation series
Beauty within is reflected on the world around us. We can train to develop and increase our inner beauty through the practice of consideration for others, and conscientiousness. Through reflecting and meditating on Buddha’s teachings, we can develop mindfulness with respect to our own actions of body, speech and mind and become aware of how our actions impact others in positive and negative ways.
By increasing our conscientiousness with mindfulness we can impact others around us in a positive way and create much beauty and happiness for our future selves.
Join Gen Kelsang Kunden as we meditate and contemplate on Buddhist wisdom that will increase our experience of inner peace and happiness.
This book is based on How to Understand the Mind and How to Transform Your Life.
Meditations for Daily Harmony
November meditation series
Many of our problems and difficulties arise from our unbalanced mind towards others. These unbalanced minds, lead to unbalanced and awkward, uncomfortable relationships that in turn affect our peace of mind. How can we think about others in a balanced way? A way that keeps our mind warm, smooth and comfortable?
Buddha taught that we are all capable of developing a mind of equanimity by thinking about others with wisdom. This will open us to experience a smooth, balanced mind and warm heart for all living beings.
Join Gen Kelsang Kunden as we meditate and contemplate on Buddhist wisdom that will increase our love and compassion for others.
This book is based on How to Understand the Mind and How to Transform Your Life.
Letting Go Our Negative Minds
December meditation series
In daily life it is easy to become overwhelmed by negative thoughts and unhappy feelings. There are countless situations that we find difficult or challenging, and without methods to protect our mind we can easily feel stressed, anxious or angry. Buddha taught that these negative minds all arise from one source – the mind of self-cherishing. As we train in abandoning self-cherishing, our negative thoughts and feelings will subside and our happiness and inner peace will increase.
Abandoning self-cherishing is the key to increasing happiness, love, and compassion. And we can accomplish this by using all situations we encounter as an opportunity to train in overcoming this most negative mind.
Join Gen Kelsang Kunden with meditations and contemplations to abandon our most negative mind, our self-cherishing.
This book is based on How to Understand the Mind and How to Transform Your Life.
The classes are presented in a series but each class is stand-alone. You do not need to attend the full series to benefit from the classes.
$12 drop-in | $40 for any 4 classes (series pass) | Free for members
Tickets can be purchased before class through Paypal, Eventbrite or at the door. No registration necessary
Sunday Afternoon Meditation
2:30 - 4pm
Tuesday Morning Meditation
10:30 - 11:45am
Wednesday Evening Meditation
7 - 8:30pm
Thursday Evenings
The Happiness Toolkit
Meditation for World Peace
Free Sunday Morning Class
Branch Classes
Various Locations
