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Heart Jewel Kadampa Buddhist Centre

heart jewel kadampa buddhist centre

London

The Path of Wisdom and Compassion Monday 9th – Sunday 15th January A week’s retreat meditating on the stages of the path to enlightenment, to start the year with deep meaning and peace. Come to every session or just one.. all sessions are guided. Session times: 9am – 10.15am 11am – 12.15noon 5.30pm – 6.45pm 7.30pm – 9pm Using Prayers for Meditation and the 21 meditations from the New Meditation Handbook £3/session (drop in) | £10/day | £50/week | free for all Centre card holders MONDAY 9TH JAN Session 1 Our precious human life Session 2 Death and impermanence Session 3 The dangers of lower rebirth and refuge practice Session 4 Actions and their effects TUESDAY 10TH JAN Session 1 Developing renunciation, using the first four contemplations: birth, sickness, ageing and death Session 2 Developing renunciation, using the remaining three contemplations Session 3 Developing renunciation, using all seven contemplations Session 4 Offering to the Spiritual Guide prayers WED 11TH JAN Session 1 Developing equanimity Session 2 Recognising that all living beings are our mothers Session 3 Remembering the kindness of living beings Session 4 Equalising self and others THURSDAY 12TH JAN Session 1 The disadvantages of self-cherishing Session 2 The advantages of cherishing others Session 3 Exchanging self with others Session 4 Great compassion FRIDAY 13TH JAN Session 1 Taking Session 2 Wishing love Session 3 Giving Session 4 Bodhichitta SATURDAY 14TH JAN All four sessions Tranquil abiding, using Bodhichitta as the meditation object SUNDAY 15TH JAN (6.30am) Precepts Session 1 Meditation on the emptiness of the body Session 2 Meditation on the emptiness of the self Session 3 Meditation on the emptiness of all phenomena Session 4 Relying upon a Spiritual Guide

Compassion Kadampa Buddhist Centre

compassion kadampa buddhist centre

Newcastle Upon Tyne

Meditation is a mind that focuses on a positive experience, and a mental action that is the main cause of mental peace. Whenever we meditate, we are performing an action that will cause us to experience inner peace in the future. Normally, throughout our life, we experience negative states of mind day and night, and these are the opposite to mental peace. Sometimes, however, we naturally experience inner peace, and this is because in the past we concentrated on positive objects. A positive object is one that causes us to develop a peaceful mind when we concentrate on it. The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our mind is peaceful we will be free from worries and mental discomfort, and so we will experience true happiness; but if our mind is not peaceful, we will find it very difficult to be happy, even if we are living in the very best conditions. If we train in meditation, our mind will gradually become more and more peaceful, and we will experience a purer and purer form of happiness. Eventually we will be able to stay happy all the time, even in the most difficult circumstances. girl meditating WHY LEARN TO MEDITATE? Person Meditating Usually we find it difficult to control our mind. It seems as if our mind is like a balloon in the wind – blown here and there by external circumstances. If things go well, our mind is happy, but if they go badly, it immediately becomes unhappy. Such fluctuations of mood arise because we are too closely involved in the external situation. We are like a child making a sandcastle who is excited when it is first made, but who becomes upset when it is destroyed by the incoming tide. 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, rather than an unbalanced mind that oscillates between the extremes of excitement and despondency. If we train in meditation systematically, eventually we will be able to eradicate from our mind the delusions that are the causes of all our problems and suffering. In this way, we will come to experience permanent inner peace. Then, day and night, in life after life, we will experience only peace and happiness.