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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:
UNDERSTANDING THE NEED FOR MEDITATION
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To creatively build a steady meditation practice, we don’t need more time in our life—no one has this. We just need a wish to build it. One effect of contemplating Buddha’s teachings is to realize how much we need them to solve our daily problems.
In this series of classes learn to develop your own deep wish to train in meditation with confidence. The series will culminate in a "Familiarity & Focus" mini-retreat on Sept 27th for those who wish to deepen their understanding.
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Everyone Welcome. No Experience Necessary.
CURRENT SERIES:
Understanding the Need for Meditation​​
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Sept 6: Developing Lasting Confidence
Sept 13: Choosing a Peaceful Mind - with Meditation Teacher, Eve Miller
Sept 20: Why Meditation Really Works
Sept 27: Love is the Special Opponent to our Problems
Monday Rest & Reflect
Mondays • 7 - 8pm • $15 • Included in Membership
with Meditation Teacher, Eve Miller
CURRENT SERIES:
Learning to Increase Our Love for Others
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Buddha taught that the mind of love is the "Great Protector," protecting our mind from painful feelings like anger, attachment and jealousy. Love also protect us from performing negative and harmful actions and allows us to be a beneficial person in our community. In this series we'll learn to strengthen our love for others in meditation and then carry that practice into our daily life.
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Everyone Welcome. No Experience Necessary.
CURRENT SERIES:
Learning to Increase Our Love for Others
Oct 12: A Technique to Deepen our Mind of Love
Oct 19: Adopting a Special View of the People Around us
Oct 26: Who's fault is it Anyway?
Nov 2: A Humble Mind and an Open Heart
NEW! The Power to Change
Wednesdays • 7 - 8pm • $15 • Included in Membership
with Meditation Teachers Ana Ramirez & Becky Lyne​
The Buddhist master Shantideva said, "although living beings wish for happiness, they destroy it like a foe." Do you ever feel like peace of mind is elusive? Do intrusive thoughts and habitual negativity undermine your happiness? The gentle guided meditations presented in this class are powerful tools to tame the mind, bringing it into a state of balance, positivity, and peace. Each class includes a breathing meditation, a teaching on one of Buddha's "Stages of the Path to Enlightenment" (Lamrim) meditations, short prayers for meditation, and a second guided meditation on the topic taught.
Everyone welcome, no experience necessary.
NEW! Thursday Morning Meditation
Thursdays • 8 - 8:30am • $5 • Included in Membership
with Meditation Teacher, Karen Swiecicki
PLEASE NOTE: NO CLASS ON OCT 15
Work days and daily life in the city can be challenging. But if we start our day with a relaxed and peaceful mind it can make all the difference! This gentle guided morning meditation will set you on your way to a more positive day. By training in meditation, we create an inner space and clarity that enables us to control our mind regardless of the external circumstances. Gradually we develop mental equilibrium, a balanced mind that is happy all the time.
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Everyone Welcome. No Experience Necessary.
Prayers for World Peace
Monthly on First Fridays • 7 - 8pm • Free
NEXT CLASSES November 6th & December 4th
with Kadampa Meditation Teachers
"In recent years our knowledge of modern technology has increased considerably, and as a result we have witnessed remarkable material progress, but there has not been a corresponding increase in human happiness. There is no less suffering in the world today, and there are no fewer problems. Indeed, it might be said that there are now more problems and greater dangers than ever before." - Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
The pressures of the modern world can sometimes feel impossible to navigate. Balancing work, family, friends, and trying to find hope and meaning in the midst of life’s demands can be challenging. If you find yourself feeling lost and powerless faced with the horrors of war, famine, sickness and the many problems that plague our world, then you may benefit from Prayers for World Peace. You are invited to join us for a short teaching, a guided meditation, and prayers for peace in the world. This is a way to direct spiritual energy toward wishing happiness for all beings, through the process of correct imagination. All things arise from the mind, so if we can create a space where we imagine world peace, then we can make it happen together.
BRANCH CLASSES
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
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PLEASE NOTE: NO CLASS ON OCT 14
CURRENT SERIES:
Developing a Meditation Practice
Just as doctors give different medicine for people with different illnesses, so Buddha gave different teachings for people with different problems and capacities. Through training in meditation we can learn to recognize our capacity for a peaceful mind, and eliminate the causes of problems in our life.
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Everyone Welcome. No experience necessary.
Please note, these classes are held in Collingswood, NJ.
CURRENT SERIES:
​Developing a Meditation Practice
May 13: Can we learn to be happy?
May 20: Meditation: The tool for learning
May 27: The benefits of meditation
June 3: How to begin meditation
June 10: How to meditate on the Buddhist path
June 17: The meditation on equanimity
June 24: The meditation on equalizing self and others
Interested in a branch class in your area?