Wednesdays; 7:00pm – 8:15pm
@ The Circular Church (150 Meeting Street)
$10 or $5 students/seniors (Free for Monthly Members)
Meditation On The Go:
Bringing Meditation Off the Cushion and Into Daily Life
May 15: Four Truths about life – Part 1
May 22: Four Truths about life – Part 2
May 29: Training in giving
June 5: Training in integrity and patience
June 12: The joy of effort
June 19: Developing our concentration and wisdom
This is the second of two series on the book Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. Students do not need to have attended the first series in order to enjoy this series.
This class series will use Buddha’s teachings on the Four Noble Truths to show how everyone can increase their patience, love, compassion, wisdom and happiness in daily life. Whether we find ourselves at home, at work, or somewhere else, we can practice “meditation on the go” and put our good intentions into practice.
During the first half of this six week course, Frances McLeod will explain how the Four Noble Truths encourage us to find real freedom from our problems by looking within our own hearts. During the second half, she will explain how to apply to apply the Six Perfections within the context of our hectic modern lives.
Everyone is welcome to attend, no previous experience required. Drop in for any class.
Where to Find Us at the Circular Church
Enter from Queen Street and go to the far end of the parking lot behind the new addition to the Church. The class is held on the second floor; look for the signs pointing you in the right direction. Parking is free, even though there’s a sign saying you need to pay; Circular has reserved parking spaces at the end of the lot.
If you’re not familiar with the downtown area, you should know that Queen Street is one-way. If you’re headed to the Church from Meeting Street, the best strategy is to turn left on Cumberland, circle around the block and then make a right onto Queen Street. The parking lot is hard to see; look for the big round mirror and turn right into the lot.
June 26: Identifying anger
July 3: What’s wrong with a little anger?
July 10: Understanding why we get angry
July 17: What is patience?
July 24: Weathering the thunderstorms of the mind
July 31: Patience and wisdom
August 7: Patience and compassion, Part 1
August 14: Patience and compassion, Part 2
Discover a better way to deal with anger. In this summer meditation series based on Buddha’s time tested teachings, learn how we can respond to difficult people and challenging circumstances with a patient, relaxed, and “cool” mind.
Anger solves nothing. It is a destructive state of mind that constantly disturbs our inner peace, robs us of our good sense, and leads to unhappiness within our hearts and within our relationships.
During this series, students will come to recognize their own anger in its early stages of development and then learn to overcome the harmful mind of anger by generating the peaceful, positive mind of patient acceptance.
Everyone is welcome to attend, no previous experience required. Drop in for any class.
Where to Find Us at the Circular Church
Enter from Queen Street and go to the far end of the parking lot behind the new addition to the Church. The class is held on the second floor; look for the signs pointing you in the right direction. Parking is free, even though there’s a sign saying you need to pay; Circular has reserved parking spaces at the end of the lot.
Frances McLeod is the teacher of the Charleston branch of Ganden Center. Read more about Frances and our other teachers here.
