No self

Saturday 12th December, 10am - 1pm, £15 for non-members

At Heart Jewel Centre, Matlock Bath

With Gen Kelsang Osung

About the course

According to Buddhism, by far the best thing we can do for ourselves is to stop believing in a limited, ordinary, and often painful sense of ourself as if it was the truth. 

And to understand instead that we are merely imputed by conceptual thought, like everything else.

Once we dissolve away this limited, permanent sense of self, we become free from the sufferings of the self and open the door to liberation from all suffering.

This is why we need to do the meditation on the emptiness of our self. 

On this half day course with Gen Osung we will explore this profoundly meaningful topic and will guide this meditation on selflessness

“In summary, we should know that through practising Dharma we can all make ourselves happy all the time. In this context, Dharma means principally Buddha’s teaching on selflessness, emptiness. Selflessness means that our self and all other phenomena that we normally see or perceive do not exist. Je Tsongkhapa said that since the son of a childless woman does not exist, its suffering and problems cannot exist. Likewise, since our self that we normally see does not exist, its suffering and problems cannot exist.”

How to Understand the Mind, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Everyone is welcome.

£15 for non-members, free to members.

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Bodhisattva Warriors

Saturday 21st November, 10am - 1pm

At Heart Jewel Centre, Matlock Bath

With Gen Kelsang Osung

About the course

On this half day meditation course we will learn about the extraordinary inner strength of a Bodhisattva - someone who dedicates their life to realising their full potential to be able to benefit others.

With such a virtuous intention, a Bodhisattva is undaunted with the difficult conditions they encounter in life, by developing the ability to transform adversity into the spiritual path.

Come along and discover these life changing life hacks!

“Practitioners of training the mind are like peacocks, which are said to thrive on plants that are poisonous to other birds, for they can transform both attractive and unattractive objects into the spiritual path. They are able to enjoy attractive objects without developing attachment, and they can happily accept unattractive objects, such as sickness and other adverse conditions, without becoming angry or discouraged. Whatever circumstances arise, practitioners of training the mind can enjoy and make good use of them. Since in these degenerate times we are constantly surrounded by objects of attachment and aversion, we definitely need to learn how to transform them into the spiritual path by training our mind.”

The New Eight Steps to Happiness

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Everyone is welcome.

£15 for non-members, free to members.

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