Meditate in Kitchener
Tuesday evenings
6:45 – 8:15pm
@ Kitchener Public Libary
Meditation classes are returning to Kitchener on Tuesday evenings from September 6. Our Kitchener classes provide an opportunity for like-minded people to come together to find inner peace of mind through meditation and to share our experience of meditation together.
Each class consists of guided meditations and teachings that we can contemplate and practice throughout the week. Each contemplation has a practical application to solve our daily problems. Through attending classes and putting effort into applying these teachings to our daily lives, we can make great progress increasing our own inner peace. Through engaging in meditation practice we can develop and maintain a peaceful mind all the time. If we have a peaceful mind all the time we will be happy all the time, regardless of whether our conditions are good or bad. Now is the time to train in inner peace and happiness by putting Buddha’s teachings into practice.
If you live in the Kitchener-Waterloo area and are interested in attending meditation classes, just come along. There is no need to drop-in or pre-register. Masks at class are optional. Everyone welcome.
You are also always welcome to join our classes, retreats and courses in person at our main Centre in Guelph.
From September 1, we will only be offering Foundation Program classes online to those who live a distance from our main Centre in Guelph. If you are interested in joining the Foundation Program, please email education@akbc.ca.
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, and bring your mask.
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.
Class Series Topics
1. Where does happiness come from?
2. Understanding Karma
3. Creating Causes with Confidence
4. Changing our Perspective
1. Purifying the Past
2. Letting go of Resentment
3. Allowing Inner Change
Each class is a stand-alone class that is part of a series of classes. You do not need to attend the full series to benefit from these classes. These classes are based on the books The Mirror of Dharma with Additions and The New Eight Steps to Happiness. Come along and learn how to make your life deeply meaningful.
Emptiness is the word used by Buddha to describe the ultimate nature of reality. The way things exist. Our painful feelings, our problems, difficulties arises due to our grasping at the world around us. When, through studying Buddha’s teachings and understand that reality is not fixed and solid, but dream-like, we gain anexperience of freedom from limitation that allows us to let go of our painful ways of relating to ourselves and the world. It is a source of joy, creativity and healing that we can all tap into at any time. Through meditating on emptiness we can quickly become the person we wish to be, and we open ourselves to our potential for complete liberation and enlightenment.
Each class is a stand-alone class that is part of a series of classes. You do not need to attend the full series to benefit from these classes. These classes are based on the books The Mirror of Dharma with Additions and The New Eight Steps to Happiness. Come along and learn how to make your life deeply meaningful.
This series follows from the special public talk on November 21 with Gen Kelsang Thekchen the Resident Teacher of Kadampa Meditation Centre Canada. In this series of classes, we will dwelve deeper into the contemplations introduced by Gen Thekchen. In this way we will gain a deep experience of the capacity of our mind to experience inner peace and improve our overall health and well-being. We can all achieve inner peace and happiness through regular meditation training.
Where do our problems come from? Are problems found outside the mind or within our unpeaceful states of mind? By understanding whatever problems we experience come from the mind, we can learn to respond to difficult situations with a positive and peaceful mind. In this way, we can transform our problems into challenges or opportunities for growth and development. We can learn to solve our daily problems with deep understanding of the teaching that problems arise only if we respond to difficulties with a negative state of mind.
Each class is a stand-alone class that is part of a series of classes. You do not need to attend the full series to benefit from these classes. These classes are based on the books How to Transform Your Life and The New Eight Steps to Happiness. Come along and learn how to make your life deeply meaningful.
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
Upcoming Events at our Main Centre in Guelph
Special Public Talk with Gen Kelsang Thekchen: Finding Peace - Meditation, Inner Health, and Happiness
