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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:
MAKING YOUR LIFE MEANINGFUL
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Did you know we can use our human life to make ourself and others happy? In this three week series you'll learn to encourage yourself to make the most out of the amazing opportunity that is your life! By putting Buddha's teachings into practice we can make ourself and others happy by learning to control our delusions through our meditation practice. When we do this, we reduce bad habits, suffering and uncomfortable states of mind. We increase peace, focus, and a relaxed and happy mind!
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This series will culminate in a "Familiarity & Focus" mini retreat on August 30th for those who wish to gain more familiarity with the meditation on Our Precious Human Life.
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Everyone Welcome. No Experience Necessary.
CURRENT SERIES:
Making Your Life Meaningful
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Aug 16: Your Life is Precious
Aug 23: Your Life is Rare
Aug 30: How to Make Your Life Meaningful
Monday Rest & Reflect
Mondays • 7 - 8pm • $15 • Included in Membership
with Meditation Teacher, Eve Miller
CURRENT SERIES:
Meditation 101: A toolkit for starting and continuing a daily practice
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Meditation is a method for familiarizing our mind with positive, peaceful, and helpful states of mind. It is the main cause of mental peace. In this series we'll learn what meditation is, how to settle our mind for practice, and how to begin and keep up a beneficial daily practice.
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Everyone Welcome. No Experience Necessary.
CURRENT SERIES:
Meditation 101
Aug 17: Motivation to Meditate - What it is and How it Helps
Aug 24: Getting Your Mind to Settle Down
Aug 31: What is the Mind?
Sept 7: How to Meditate - The Parts of Meditation
Sept 14: Making the Most of Your Life - Motivation to Meditate Part 2
NEW! The Power to Change
Wednesdays • 7 - 8pm • $15 • Included in Membership
with Meditation Teachers Ana Ramirez & Becky Lynne
BEGINS SEPT 16th
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 short instruction on one of Buddha's "Stages of the Path to Enlightenment" (Lamrim) meditations, 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
BEGINS SEPT 17th
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 CLASS September 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
Meditation in Ardmore
Class on Summer break - check back in the fall!
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 Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, Part 2
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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 Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, Part 2
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Mar 3: Remembering the Kindness of Living Beings
Mar 10: Equalizing Self and Others
Mar 17: The Disadvantages of Self-Cherishing
Mar 24: The Advantages of Cherishing Others
Mar 31: Exchanging Self with Others
Apr 7: Great Compassion
Apr 14: Taking
Apr 21: Wishing Love
Apr 28: Giving
May 5: Bodhichitta
May 12: CLASS CANCELED
May 19: CLASS CANCELED
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:
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?