Tuesday Night Drop-in Class: Meditations to Make Our Life Happy and Meaningful
Tuesdays, 7 - 8:30pm @ KMC SF
Each self contained class explores a new meditation technique from the text, The New Meditation Handbook. This practical and inspiring guide to Buddhist meditation is for everyone.
What to expect in this class:
- Simple guided breathing meditation
- Practical teaching on how to solve problems in daily life
- Second guided meditation on the teaching topic
- Brief discussion and Q&A
- Everyone Welcome. Suitable for beginners and advanced practitioners.
About the Teacher
Gen Kelsang Choma is a senior Teacher and Buddhist nun with the New Kadampa Tradition of Modern Buddhism. She is a close disciple of Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso has studied extensively on the Teacher Training Program for over 30 years and is qualified to teach both Sutra and Tantra. She is the Resident Teacher at Kadampa Meditation Center San Francisco and is invited to teach nationally. People enjoy her teachings for their clarity and warmth.
Everyone, regardless of their level of experience or background, can benefit from the classes & courses offered on the General Program (drop-in). It is a highly accessible program designed to address everyday problems with simple and practical advice that makes sense according to our daily experience.
These classes and courses provide a basic introduction to Buddhist teachings and meditations. Through these we can learn how to use Buddha's advice as a solution to our daily problems. In this way we come to experience a sense of peace and happiness in our lives.
Registration
IN-PERSON ONLY
Please register online or at the door
Cost: $15 / person* - Free for members!
*50% discount available for students and seniors 62+. Contact: admin@meditateinthebayarea.org
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Weekly topics
The whole series package should be bought at the beginning of the series.
Each self contained class explores a new meditation technique from the text, The New Meditation Handbook. This practical and inspiring guide to Buddhist meditation is for everyone.
All our actions of body, speech, and mind are causes and all our experiences are their effects. The law of karma explains why each individual has a unique mental disposition, a unique physical appearance, and unique experiences.
Renunciation, a mind leaving behind suffering completely, is the gateway through which we enter the path to liberation, or nirvana—the permanent inner peace attained through completely abandoning the confusion of self-grasping.
Self-grasping ignorance is an inner poison that causes far greater harm than any outer poison. Because of being polluted by this inner poison, our mind sees everything in a mistaken way, and as a result we experience hallucination-like sufferings and problems.
In the Sutra of the Four Noble Truths Buddha says, ‘You should practice the path.’ In this context, ‘path’ does not mean an external path that leads from one place to another, but an inner path, a spiritual realization that leads us to the pure happiness of liberation and enlightenment.
In this class, we will be looking at the 21 Meditations known as Lamrim presented in The New Meditation Handbook by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.
In this series we explore Buddha’s teachings on creating a life of gratitude that’s spiritually engaged and feels totally protected and supported. This is a great place to start your spiritual journey towards realizing your potential or just to refresh your meditation practice. We’ll also have a special class Feb 14 on relationships from a Buddhist perspective.
DETAILS
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CURRENT SERIES: Meditations to Make Our Life Happy and Meaningful |
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WHEN: Tuesdays, 7 - 8:30pm |
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COST: $15 (free for members - sign up here) |
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TEACHER: Gen Kelsang Choma |
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WHERE: In-person @ KMC SF | 3324 17th Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 |
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GETTING THERE: Metered street parking on 17th & Hoff St. (free past 6pm and free all day on Sundays) Parking garage on 16th & Hoff St. (42 Hoff St, San Francisco, CA 94110) Bart (16th St. Mission) J Line Muni (Church St & 16th St) Bus (#49, #14, #22, #33) |