Meditate in Kitchener
Tuesday evenings
6:45 – 8:15pm
Kitchener meditation classes will be held on September 12 & 19
@Forest Heights Library
251 Fischer-Hallman Rd
Kitchener, ON N2M 4X8
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 pre-register. Everyone welcome.
You are also always welcome to join our classes, retreats and courses in person at our main Centre in Guelph.
We also offer 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 fp@akbc.ca.
Kitchener meditation classes will be held on September 12 & 19
@Forest Heights Library
251 Fischer-Hallman Rd
Kitchener, ON N2M 4X8
Kitchener meditation classes will resume October 2023
@Grand River Stanley Park Library
175 Indian Rd
Kitchener, ON N2B 2S7
(entrance to library off Heritage Dr)
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 this mind of equanimity by thinking about others in correct ways based on 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
Other Meditation Classes in Nearby Guelph
- Join us on Sunday afternoons, Tuesday mornings or Wednesday evenings for meditation class. Each week our Sunday and Wednesday class present the same topic.
- We also offer a drop-in class on Sunday mornings for our free Meditations for World Peace class. A short teaching and time to meditate to establish an inner experience of inner peace that we can bring to the world around us.
- Join us on Thursday evenings for The Happiness Toolkit
- We also offer and in-depth study program meditation class, Foundation Program which requires enrolment.
- We also offer drop-in meditation classes in Kitchener, Georgetown, Fergus/Elora and London. Other locations coming soon.
Questions about our classes? Contact us.
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
Upcoming Events at our Main Centre in Guelph
Learn to Meditate - Meditations for a Clear Mind - half day meditation course
