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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:
​The Five Forces to Improve Our Practice of Meditation
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To deepen our experience of any of Buddha’s teachings requires five forces: Motivation, Familiarity, White Seed, Destruction, and Aspirational Prayer. In this 5-week series learn what these Five Forces mean for a modern practitioner.
CURRENT SERIES:
The Five Forces to Improve Our Practice of Meditation
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May 18: Motivation
May 25: Familiarity
Jun 1: Maintaining a Positive Mind
Jun 8: The Practice of Purification
Jun 15: Making a Path with Our Wishes
Jun 22: Encouraging Ourself in Our Meditation Practice
Tuesday Rest & Reflect
Tuesdays • 7 - 8pm • $15 • Included in Membership
with Meditation Teacher, Eve Miller
CURRENT SERIES:
Living Lightly​
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In this series we will learn to identify with the clear nature of our own mind and relax into a peaceful and spacious mode of being. We'll also explore Buddha's teachings on wisdom through investigating our body & mind, and we'll learn how to access a peaceful and positive state and recall it throughout our day - leading to a more relaxed, peaceful life.
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Everyone Welcome.​ No experience necessary.
CURRENT SERIES:
Living Lightly​
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June 24: Blue Sky Mind
July 1: Body of Light
July 8: Abiding at Your Heart
July 15: Letting Go of Physical Pain
July 22: Letting Go of Mental Tension
July 29: Learning to Live Lightly
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.
NEW! Friday Morning Guided Meditation
Fridays • July 18th - August 29th • 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.
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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In Person. Everyone Welcome.
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​​​​​
​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.
Please note, these classes are held in Ardmore, PA
CURRENT SERIES:
​How to Meditate on Love
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Jun 24: How we can find freedom from suffering
Jul 1: Seeing others in a positive way
Jul 8: Opening our heart
Jul 15: Cherishing others: Part 1
Jul 22: Cherishing others: Part 2
Jul 29: Healing relationships
Aug 5: Increasing compassion
Aug 12: Wishing others to be happy
Aug 19: The supreme good heart ​​​​
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
​Buddha taught about eleven virtuous mental factors or parts of the mind. Any time they are present in our mind we can know that our actions will be beneficial. If a spoonful of sugar is stirred into a cup of tea, all the tea becomes sweet because sugar is by nature sweet. Similarily, when any one of the eleven virtuous mental factors is present in the mind, that entire mind becomes virtuous. In this series we'll learn about eight of these, understand their benefits and think about how they can help us maintain peace and harmony in our life.
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Everyone Welcome.
Please note, these classes are held in Collingswood, NJ.
Interested in a branch class in your area?