Thursday Evening Class
When? Thursdays 7-8.15pm
Where? Kadampa Meditation Centre Glasgow, 78 Hutcheson Street, Glasgow G1 1SH
The classes will allow you to unwind your mind and return home relaxed and refreshed. They will provide you with new tools for dealing with stress, anxiety, and problems. They will also help you to overcome negative states of mind such as anger and jealousy, and to cultivate positive minds such as patience and love.
Everybody is welcome
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Price
£15/£20 for 3/4 weeks (advance booking) | free for members
£7 per class drop in pay on the door | free for members
These courses are free for members, but members are still required to book
Letting Go of Stress
with Resident Teacher
Gen Kelsang Tubchen
August 15, 22, 29
It’s nearly impossible in our modern busy lives to meet anyone who doesn’t experience some form of stress. Few things can be more debilitating and we all know the toll it can take on us both mentally and physically. Join us for this 3 week course and receive simple, practical and potentially life-changing advice on how to live a life without stress.
Through the practice of meditation, we can transform stressful situations into opportunities for growth and become the person we’ve always wanted to be. Everyone is welcome.
The Art of Positive Thinking
with Arthur Calnan
September 5, 12, 19, 26
Negative thinking can be a strong habit which brings us down and prevents us from living a happy, fulfilling life.
If we understand the power of the mind to create our experience we can learn to transform our mental state from negative to positive through meditation. We can then gain the ability to maintain positive wisdom-based attitudes in our daily life and activities. In this way we can radically solve our problems and create causes for lasting happiness.
Discover through the practical timeless wisdom of Buddhist meditation how to apply positive thinking to your own life right now. Open to all levels of experience.
About these classes
The purpose of meditation is to cultivate positive states of mind, conducive to peace and well-being, and overcome negative habits of mind.
If we examine our life we can see that most of our time and energy is devoted to seeking material and emotional security. Although these things can make us happy for a short time, they are not able to provide the deep lasting contentment that we long for.
Happiness is a state of mind, therefore the real source of happiness lies in the mind, not in external situations. If our mind is peaceful we will experience happiness, regardless of our external circumstances, but if it is unpeaceful we will never find happiness, no matter how successful we are in improving our external conditions. The method to make our mind peaceful is through meditation.
“When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subsides and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.” – Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
