Mind Training as a Way of Life with Lama Zangmo

Update:

This event will be coincide with our abbot Lama Yeshe's visit, so the schedule has been amended:

10:00 AM to 12.30pm – Mind Training as a Way of Life – With Lama Zangmo

Using the text The Great Path of Awakening, Lama Zangmo will give instructions in meditation and the mindset of awakening, with emphasis on using the mind training practice to meet ordinary life situations with intelligence and loving kindness.     due to the visit of Lama Yeshe Rinpoche on the same weekend Lama Zangmo's course will now run over 2 mornings. Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st

11am Tea Break

11.30am  2nd session Mind Training as a Way of Life – With Lama Zangmo

12.30pm Lunch Break

2.15pm: Lama Yeshe Rinpoche to give a talk followed by Questions and Answers – The group will make an offering to Lama Yeshe Rinpoche followed by questions and answers with Rinpoche. Feel free to ask Rinpoche questions about meditation and Dharma practice. At the end of the session there is an opportunity to offer a katta (white scarf) to Rinpoche and receive a blessing cord.

3.30 PM - Children's Blessing – A meeting with Lama Yeshe Rinpoche where the children receive a blessing. We encourage the children to bring a little gift for Rinpoche, such as a drawing they have made or a piece of fruit or anything else they may like to offer him. We will all then follow Rinpoche to the mosaic wall where everyone can put their tile on the wall.

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Original content:

This is a course suitable for both Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. For centuries Tibetans have used a series of fifty-nine slogans as a skillful method for training the mind and cultivating compassion.

 

Using the text The Great Path of Awakening, Lama Zangmo will give instructions in meditation and the mindset of awakening, with emphasis on using the mind training practice to meet ordinary life situations with intelligence and loving kindness.

 

The course will run over the following four weekends in 2024:

Jan 20/21; April 13/14; July 20/21; Nov 16/17. 

It is recommended that people attend all four weekends.

Saturdays will be dedicated to the instructions in the text and Sundays will be focused on the application of Tonglen practice and Shinay meditation.

Please book your cushion for seperate dates by clicking Select Different Date button.