Sunday City Centre Meditation Class - (Week 5)

Description

About the course

Do you find your mind is very distracted?
Is your joy being constantly eroded by pain, anxiety and frustration?
Do your difficult emotions drive you to engage in bad habits?

Life brings many challenges and unexpected situations and we can easily react with painful feelings of stress, worry, anxiety and frustration. These painful emotions can
be difficult to deal with and can significantly impact the quality of our life.

We all need to learn helpful strategies to enable us to be able to sit with and face painful emotions with courage, objectivity and confidence so that we can begin to free ourselves from them.

Buddha’s teachings explain simple yet powerful methods to enable us to deal with difficult emotions.

By doing this, we will be less likely to try to escape from pain using unhelpful habits and we can start to see where they are actually coming from.

We can then begin to heal the deeper causes of our painful emotions.

Through combining meditation and practical Buddhist wisdom we can strengthen our ability to face life’s challenges and the painful emotions they can trigger, positively and constructively.

In doing so, we can become stronger and less fearful of the future and any challenges we may face.

In these classes, Gen Leksang will explain how you can learn to deal with painful emotions in a way that enables us to respond to them in a peaceful and constructive way.

Everybody is welcome to come and learn these simple techniques to start to manage and even accept difficult emotions.

The course will be based on the book ‘How to Solve our Human Problems’. This book is available to purchase for those who wish to study further at home.

On this course, you will learn the following:

-How to become more accepting of painful emotions
-How to develop mental space and the power to let pain go
-How to identify and begin to heal the underlying causes of painful emotions
-How to grow stronger and wiser through our difficult emotions
-How to train to become fearless in the face of life’s challenges.

The course will run in Birmingham City Centre on Sundays and Tuesdays as well as in Solihull on Mondays and Sutton Coldfield on Thursdays.
You can drop in week by week or book for the whole course.

£8.50 per session or book 7 weeks for £35

Great for beginners as well as those with experience.

These classes are taught by Buddhist nun Gen Kelsang Leksang. A teacher with 20 years of experience of teaching meditation. The course will be based on the teachings of Buddha that provide powerful and liberating insights into the nature of the human mind.

The classes are held in relaxed, informal settings. Participants generally sit on chairs. Our venues all have disabled access.

Please let us know if you require audio assistance.

Everybody welcome

Book for a single class or a series. Receive a discount if you book for the entire course.

The format

IN-PERSON in April and May(also available online for members)

The teacher

The teacher of this class is Gen Kelsang Leksang, she has been an ordained Buddhist nun for 16 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 can inspire people to improve their own lives by showing how Buddha’s teachings are relevant to the experiences of modern-day people.

When is it?

7-week course starts 7th April.

Sundays 11 am-12.20 pm

(also taking place in Birmingham City Centre Tuesdays 12-1 pm and 7-8.20 pm and Solihull and Sutton Coldfield)

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 6 pm

What does it cost?

• Discount for the whole course: £35
• Single classes: £8.50
• Or why not consider a membership which includes multiple weekly classes and weekend workshops for only £35/month?

Programme

WHOLE 7 WEEK COURSE (£35)

Week 1 – 7th April – The meditation tool kit (£8.50)

Week 2 – 14th April – Letting go of pain and stress(£8.50)

Week 3 – 21st April – Letting go of mental busyness(£8.50)

Week 4 – 28th April – Purifying the karmic causes of pain(£8.50)

Week 5 – 5th May – Becoming the person you want to be (£8.50) 

Week 6 – 12th May – Dissolving difficult emotions (£8.50)

Week 7 – 19th May – 4 Steps to a Happy Life (£8.50) 

FREE FOR ALL MEMBERS – Our City Centre classes are also available online to members. Click here for details of membership.