Birmingham City Centre Meditation course – Tuesday evenings
With Buddhist nun Gen Kelsang Leksang
The Path of Wisdom & Compassion – 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th March & 1st, 8th April (6 weeks)
Tuesdays 7-8.20pm
Learn how generate in your mind true causes of peace and happiness.
These classes explore practical methods for increasing your peace, your confidence and improving your relationships with others.
Each class includes practical advice from Buddhist wisdom and guided meditations.
It is great for beginners as well as those with experience.
Kadampa Meditation Centre Birmingham – 44 Blucher Street, Birmingham. B1 1QJ
This course is also available as a Livestream with membership. For further details on membership click here
Description
About the course
Do you feel disatisfied with life and feel that there must be a better way?
By training in meditation, we can learn to develop happiness from within. We can learn to gain the freedom over our thoughts and diagnose our mental pain and stress. We can learn to become deeply familiar with happy, balanced and positive states of mind that we can rely upon for our happiness and turn to for solice, in the midst of busy, every day life.
This course will explore a commentary to the Buddhist text by Geshe Langi Tangpa – Eight Verses of Training the Mind – written by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso – The New Eight Steps to Happiness.
We will be exploring this text in this class over the coming weeks and month. Each class/course is self-contained so you can drop in any time.
This course is also available online with membership
Why not try a membership for a month and see what you think?
Click here for the full schedule of classes available at KMC Birmingham and branches.
You can drop in week by week or book for the whole course.
A discount is available if you book for the whole course.
£8.50 per session or book 6 weeks for £32
Great for beginners as well as those with experience.
These classes are taught by Buddhist nun Gen Kelsang Leksang. A teacher with over 20 years experience of teaching meditation. The course will be based on teachings of Buddha that provide powerful and liberating insights into the nature of the human mind.
Everybody welcome
Book for a single class or a series. Receive a discount if you book for the entire course
You will methods to learn how to:
- How to develop a strong and peaceful mind
- Develop happiness within by cultivating special views and attitudes
- Improve your outlook and uplift your mind
- Begin to awaken your potential for deeper peace, happiness and a sense of purpose
The format
IN-PERSON (also available online for members)
The teacher
The teacher of this class is Gen Kelsang Leksang, she has been an ordained Buddhist nun for 17 years. she has been studying under the guidance of the meditation master venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso for over 20 years and was first appointed as resident teacher at KMC Birmingham in 2007.
Appreciated for her caring and positive manner, she has the ability to inspire people to improve their own lives by showing how Buddha’s teaching are relevant to the experiences of modern day people.
When is it?
Tuesdays 7:00 – 8.20pm
Where is it?
Kadampa Meditation Centre Birmingham – 44 Blucher Street, Birmingham. B1 1QJ
- KMC Birmingham is located next to The Mailbox. Only around 8 minutes walk from New Street station. Free parking on nearby streets on Sundays and evenings after 6pm
What does it cost?
6 week Whole course: £32
Single classes: £8.50
Or why not consider a membership which includes multiple weekly classes and weekend workshops for only £35/month?
Programme
March – April course – The Path of wisdom and compassion
WHOLE COURSE (£32)
Week 1 – 4th March – Developing inner strength
Week 2 – 11th March – Giving pure love
Week 3 – 18th March – Awakening our potential – The supreme good heart
Week 4 – 25th March – Letting go of suffering – The true nature of reality
Week 5 – 1st April – Who am I ? The true nature of self
Week 6 – 8th April – Dissolving difficulties – the ultimate nature of things
FREE FOR ALL MEMBERS. Membership also provides access to additional online classes. Click here for information membership information
