Guided Meditations and Practical Advice for Daily Life
10:30am – 11:45am
at Ganden Buddhist Center (2999 Sunset Boulevard)
FREE; suggested donation of $10 or $5 students/seniors
Perfect for beginners!
Meditation On The Go:
Bringing Meditation Off the Cushion and Into Daily Life
May 19: Four Truths about life – Part 1
May 26: Four Truths about life – Part 2
June 2: NO CLASS (Clear Sky Mind Mahamudra Retreat)
June 9: Training in giving, integrity and patience
June 16: The joy of effort
June 23: 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, Gen Nyema 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.
Class Format
Every class will begin with a brief introduction, followed by a guided breathing meditation and the Liberating Prayer. After meditation, there will be a short teaching and time for Q&A. Class will end with Prayers for World Peace.
June 30: Identifying anger
July 7: What’s wrong with a little anger?
July 14: Understanding why we get angry
July 21: What is patience?
July 28: Weathering the thunderstorms of the mind
August 4: Patience and wisdom
August 11: Patience and compassion, Part 1
August 18: 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.
Class Format
Every class will begin with a brief introduction, followed by a guided breathing meditation and the Liberating Prayer. After meditation, there will be a short teaching and time for Q&A. Class will end with Prayers for World Peace.
Gen Kelsang Nyema has been the Resident Teacher of Ganden Kadampa Buddhist Center since 2008. Read more about Gen Nyema and our other teachers here.
