Each meditation class includes two guided meditations and practical methods to keep a peaceful mind all day long, based on Kadampa Buddhism. The intent is to help people to gain a personal experience of inner peace, overcome their daily problems and find real happiness in their hearts. Everyone is welcome.
Circular Congregational Church
150 Meeting Street, Charleston, SC 29401
(Behind Lance hall, 2nd floor)
People often think they need to find the right partner in order to feel loved and avoid feeling lonely. And many people spend years (or even a lifetime!) searching for That Special Someone.
Buddha teaches the truth is that each of us are already intimately connected to each other. By learning to recognize this interconnection and interdependence in our daily lives, we will feel close, connected, grateful and in the presence of loving kindness in our lives.
Based on the book How to Transform Your Life by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, and the chapter "Learning to Cherish Others."
Everyone is welcome.
$12 per class (free for KMC-SC members, click to learn about membership)
Pre-registration is not necessary
Love can give rise to great happiness but all too often it seems to lead to pain and suffering. This is because we fail to understand the difference between love and attachment. Love is the source of happiness whereas the pain and sorrow in our relationships arises from our attachment.
Frances McLeod will explain how we can approach our love for our partner, family and friends from a fresh, new perspective by learning how to discriminate clearly between love and attachment. In this way our relationships will become more harmonious, joyful and long-lasting, and function to draw us closer to a state of pure and lasting happiness.
Based on the book How to Transform Our Life by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.
Everyone is welcome.
$12 per class (free for KMC-SC members, click to learn about membership)
Pre-registration is not necessary
“Most relationships between people are based on a mixture of love and attachment. This is not pure love for it is based on a desire for our own happiness – we value the other person because they make us feel good. Pure love is unmixed with attachment and stems entirely from a concern for others’ happiness. It never gives rise to problems but only to peace and happiness for both ourself and others. We need to remove attachment from our minds, but this does not mean that we have to abandon our relationships. Rather, we should learn to distinguish attachment from love, and gradually try to remove all traces of attachment from our relationships and to improve our love until it becomes pure.” - How to Transform Your Life, "Wishing Love"
“It is sometimes very difficult to distinguish between our love and our attachment for others, but, when we are able to do so, we will see that it is invariably the attachment that is the cause of our suffering. Pure unconditional love never causes any pain or worry but only peace and joy." - How to Transform Your Life, "Exchanging Self with Others"
Buddha teaches there are three aspects of love -- affectionate love, cherishing love, and wishing love. When we learn to identify and cultivate these authentically, we can feel in the presence of love in our hearts all the time, in all our relationships, and no matter what happens.
Based on the book Modern Buddhism by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.
Everyone is welcome.
$12 per class (free for KMC-SC members, click to learn about membership)
Pre-registration is not necessary
Frances McLeod has been practicing meditation and Kadampa Buddhism for 20 years. She is a student of Kadampa Meditation Center South Carolina’s Teacher Training Program. Frances teaches practical and simple methods to help us integrate meditation in our daily life.
Circular Congregational Church
150 Meeting Street, Charleston, SC 29401
(Behind Lance hall, 2nd floor)
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