Modern Buddhism
These classes are now being run via video link. A vimeo video link will be sent to your email address at the scheduled event start time. This link will expire after 3 days. Please check your spam folder if you have not received the link. Book your place now below.
When?
Tuesdays 7-8.15pm
How the course is run
The classes will be run remotely until further notice. When you sign up, you will receive a link to a video of each class. The link will be sent to your email address on the day of the class and will remain valid for three days.
About this course
Suitable for everyone, this ongoing course focus on how to meditate and use Buddhist understanding in daily life to solve daily problems and find real joy, meaning and happiness.
Each class is self-contained and includes guided meditation. You can drop-in at any time or attend regularly to get the most benefit. Please, book below so that we can send you a video link on the day of the class.
Everybody welcome!
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Price
£7 per class drop-in | £5 per class if 4/5 week series is booked in advance
free for members
About the Teacher
Gen Kelsang Osung is the Resident Teacher at KMC Glasgow. She has been studying under the guidance of Geshe Kelsang Gyatso for 25 years. A modern Buddhist nun, she is loved for her joyful and inspiring presentation of Buddha’s teachings, clearly close to her heart.
Meditation & Modern Buddhism
with Gen Kelsang Osung
Why do we teach Modern Buddhism?
The meditation we teach at our classes comes originally from the Buddha and has been practised for over 2600 years. In that time the world has changed immeasurably but what hasn’t changed is our search for happiness and contentment in life. Despite the benefits of living in the 21st century we still encounter difficulties, hardship, dissatisfaction and unhappiness.
This on-going series of classes will go step by step through all the extraordinary methods Buddha taught for working with our mind, developing a good heart, understanding our reality and discovering how we can profoundly transform it.
You don’t have to be Buddhist to benefit from the classes as they are specifically designed to be accessible to modern people of all backgrounds. All you need is a mind, and the wish to improve it!
These classes are based on the book Modern Buddhism in which the author, Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso says:
“Through reading and practicing the instructions given in this book, people can solve their daily problems and maintain a happy mind all the time.”
Monthly topics
The Six Perfections
Mar 3 Training in the Six Perfections – the Path of Bodhichitta
Mar 10 Training in Giving
Mar 17 Training in Patience
Mar 24 Training in Moral Discipline
Mar 31 Training in Effort
The Practice of the Six Perfections (cont.)
April 7 Training in Concentration
April 14 Training in Wisdom
April 21 Taking on Suffering
April 28 Giving Pure Happiness
The Way Things Really Are
May 5 What is emptiness?
May 12 The emptiness of our body
May 19 Mind is the nature of emptiness
May 26 How to stop grasping at ‘I’
Learning to Live Life Lightly
June 2 Freedom from extremes
June 9 Resting your mind in the experience of emptiness
June 16 A powerful method to weaken our self-grasping
June 23 Learning to live lightly
June 30 A simple meditation on emptiness for daily life
FREE EBOOK
So that these benefits can reach the whole world, Geshe Kelsang wishes to give this eBook freely to everyone.
Download The Free E-Book “Modern Buddhism”,
by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche
Suitable for iPhone, Android, Mac and PC.
About these classes
These classes take you step-by-step through guided meditations and advice to make our life happy and meaningful.
- Find openness and stillness within
- Fill your life with joy
- Solve your daily problems through meditation
- Discover methods to accomplish the highest goals
