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General Program Meditation Classes
Meditation is an essential life skill. Learn to meditate or deepen your daily practice. Find the class that's right for you.
CREATE MENTAL SPACE
“By training in meditation, we create an inner space and clarity that enables us to control our mind regardless of the external circumstance. Gradually we develop mental equilibrium, a balanced mind that is happy all the time.”
- Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Sunday Morning Meditation
Sundays • 10:30 – 11:45am • $15 • Included in Membership
with Resident Teacher, John Baker
CURRENT SERIES:
​​Improving Everyday Experiences with Meditation
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Meditation is an essential life skill. Our busy modern life is proof that the more stuff and information we have, the less peace and contentment we experience. What’s not working? What needs to change? Do we have an answer? In this series of classes we’ll contemplate the reasons that point to the importance of an everyday meditation practice.
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Everyone Welcome. No Experience Necessary.
CURRENT SERIES:
Improving Everyday Experiences with Meditation
Aug 17: The Power of the Mind
Aug 24: The Nature of Our Experiences
Aug 31: Although it Appears, Does it Really Exist?
Sept 7: The Best Minds to Cultivate
Sept 14: The Importance of Intention
Tuesday Rest & Reflect
Tuesdays • 7 - 8pm • $15 • Included in Membership
with Meditation Teacher, Eve Miller
CURRENT SERIES:
Love and Patience​
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In this series we will learn to increase our love for others and to decrease the selfish, tight mind that causes most of our suffering. This leads to an experience of relaxation, peace and openness in our relationships. In part two we'll learn to how to deal with the difficulties of everyday life, and with difficult people through stabilizing our mind with the strong and flexible practice of patience.
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Everyone Welcome. No Experience Necessary.
CURRENT SERIES:
Love and Patience​
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Aug 12: The Discomfort of a Selfish Mind
Aug 19: The Joy of Loving Others
Aug 26: The Kindness of Others
Sept 2: A Special Way of Viewing Others
Sept 9: Gentleness and Humility
Sept 16: What is Patience?
Sept 23: Using Patience When Dealing with Difficult Things
Sept 30: Learning Not to Retaliate
Guided Meditation - OFF FOR THE SUMMER!
This class will resume in September.
Wednesdays • 7 - 7:30pm • $5 • Included in Membership
with Kadampa Meditation Teachers
Regular meditation practice is an important part of caring for ourselves and others. Come enjoy gentle guided meditations to calm your body and mind. Our experienced teacher will guide you as you learn to focus your mind. Then, gradually your distractions will subside and you’ll experience a sense of inner peace and relaxation. Your mind will feel lucid, spacious and refreshed!
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Everyone Welcome. No Experience Necessary.
NEW! Friday Morning Guided Meditation
Fridays • 10 - 10:30am • $5 • Included in Membership
with Meditation Teacher, James Flowers
Regular meditation practice is an important part of caring for ourselves and others. Come enjoy gentle guided meditations to calm your body and mind. Our experienced teacher will guide you as you learn to focus your mind. Then, gradually your distractions will subside and you’ll experience a sense of inner peace and relaxation. Your mind will feel lucid, spacious and refreshed!
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Everyone Welcome. No Experience Necessary.
Prayers for World Peace
Saturdays • July 12th & August 9th • 10:30 - 11:30am • FREE
with Meditation Teacher, Karen Swiecicki
Enjoy gentle chanted prayers for World Peace, guided meditation and a short teaching on a topic of Buddhist thought. These classes are designed to help increase our compassion, loving-kindness, patience & generosity and to bring our mind to a peaceful and balanced state that we can then take out into the world.
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Everyone Welcome. No Experience Necessary.
BRANCH CLASSES
Meditation in Ardmore
Tuesdays • 7 - 8pm • $15 • Included in Membership
With Meditation Teacher, Julie Francisco
Common Space, 301 E. County Line Road, Ardmore PA 19003​​​​​
CURRENT SERIES:
The Six Perfections of a Bodhisattva
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​Meditation is a method to make our mind calm and peaceful. When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subsides and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within. In this class you will learn how to have a daily meditation practice, tools to overcome difficult states of mind, and methods to calm mental busyness and stress. Everyone is welcome. No experience is necessary.
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Everyone Welcome. No Experience Necessary.
Please note, these classes are held in Ardmore, PA
CURRENT SERIES:
​The Six Perfections of a Bodhisattva
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Aug 26: Giving
Sept 2: Moral Discipline
Sept 9: Patience
Sept 16: Effort
Sept 23: Concentration
Sept 30: Wisdom
Wednesday Night Meditation in
Collingswood, NJ
Wednesdays • 7 - 8pm • $15 • Included in Membership
With Resident Teacher, John Baker
In Collingswood, NJ
Collingswood Community Ctr, 30 W. Collings Ave
CURRENT SERIES:
The Power of a Patient Mind
Accepting a difficult person or situation seems like the opposite of what we should ever do. But what does it mean to say we’ve really accepted things as they are? And what would that mind of acceptance afford us in the face of the many problems we encounter? In this series of classes on the mind of patience take some time out of your busy life to contemplate these questions and meditate on some beneficial conclusions.
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Everyone Welcome.
Please note, these classes are held in Collingswood, NJ.
CURRENT SERIES:
​The Power of a Patient Mind
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Aug 13: The Benefits of Being Patient
Aug 20: How Patience is Possible
Aug 27: The Stubborn Habit of Anger
Sept 3: What Patience Enables Us to See
Sept 10: Patience in Practice
Interested in a branch class in your area?