“Do virtuous actions as much as possible.
Avoid negative actions as much as possible.
Totally tame your own mind.
This is the teaching of the Lord Buddha.”
- The Buddha

Courses 2024

  • Eight Worldly Concerns Part 1: Happiness & Suffering

    SATURDAY 17th FEBRUARY (10am-3pm)

    Part 1 Happiness and Suffering

    The eight worldly concerns classify the attachments and aversions that yoke us to samsara—the four hopes and four fears, which we cycle through endlessly. Through this course we turn our attention and awareness to recognise their power in our daily lives, and through the awareness finding a possibility to not to follow their power blindly.

    Suitable: Beginners and non-beginners
    Teacher: Choje Lama Rabsang
    Suggested donation (per course day both in-person & online): £30 / £25 Monthly Supporters / low income etc.

    BOOKING IS REQUIRED (In-person & Online) :

    Booking

  • Eight Worldly Concerns Part 2: Fame & Insignificance

    COURSE DAY POSTPONED DUE TO LAMA RABSANG’S SICK LEAVE - updates to follow

    SATURDAY 9th MARCH (10am-3pm)

    PART 2 Fame and Insignificance

    The eight worldly concerns classify the attachments and aversions that yoke us to samsara—the four hopes and four fears, which we cycle through endlessly. Through this course we turn our attention and awareness to recognise their power in our daily lives, and through the awareness finding a possibility to not to follow their power blindly.

    Suitable: Beginners and non-beginners
    Teacher: Choje Lama Rabsang
    Suggested donation (per course day both in-person & online):
    £30 / £25 Monthly Supporters / low income etc.

    BOOKING IS REQUIRED (In-person & Online) :

    Booking

  • Eight Worldly Concerns Part 3: Praise & Blame

    COURSE DAY POSTPONED DUE TO LAMA RABSANG’S SICK LEAVE - updates to follow

    SATURDAY 13th APRIL (10am-3pm)

    PART 3 Praise and Blame

    The eight worldly concerns classify the attachments and aversions that yoke us to samsara—the four hopes and four fears, which we cycle through endlessly. Through this course we turn our attention and awareness to recognise their power in our daily lives, and through the awareness finding a possibility to not to follow their power blindly.

    Suitable: Beginners and non-beginners
    Teacher: Choje Lama Rabsang
    Suggested donation (per course day both in-person & online): £30 / £25 Monthly Supporters / low income etc.

    BOOKING IS REQUIRED (In-person & Online) :

    Booking

  • Eight Worldly Concerns Part 4: Gain & Loss

    SATURDAY 18th MAY (10am-3pm)

    PART 4 Gain and Loss

    The eight worldly concerns classify the attachments and aversions that yoke us to samsara—the four hopes and four fears, which we cycle through endlessly. Through this course we turn our attention and awareness to recognise their power in our daily lives, and through the awareness finding a possibility to not to follow their power blindly.

    Suitable: Beginners and non-beginners
    Teacher: Choje Lama Rabsang
    Suggested donation (per course day both in-person & online): £30 / £25 Monthly Supporters / low income etc.

    BOOKING IS REQUIRED (In-person & Online) :

    Booking

  • Four Noble Truths

    SATURDAY 20th APRIL (10am - 4pm)

    The four noble truths are the Buddha’s basic teaching, encapsulating the entire Buddhist path and contain the essence of the Buddha's teachings.

    The truth of suffering
    The truth of the origin of suffering
    The truth of the cessation of suffering
    The truth of the path to the cessation of suffering

    In the first two Noble Truths he diagnosed the problem (suffering) and identified its cause. The third Noble Truth is the realisation that there is a cure. The fourth Noble Truth, in which the Buddha set out the Eightfold Path, is the prescription, the way to achieve a release from suffering.

    Suitable: Beginners and non-beginners
    Teacher: Lama Kunsang
    Suggested donation (per course day both in-person & online): £30 / £25 Monthly Supporters / low income etc.

    BOOKING IS REQUIRED (In-person & Online) :

    Booking

  • Discovering the Buddha Within, Level 2: Awakened Heart

    THURSDAY 12th - SUNDAY 15th SEPTEMBER

    Through meditations on loving kindness, compassion, joy, equanimity and so forth, students will learn to awaken their hearts and discover their innate goodness, further enriching the calm state of mind and deepening their meditation through recognition of emptiness, which is the essence of the Mahayana.

    What is learned at Level 2

    1. Discover our inner goodness

    • By discovering and cultivating love, compassion, appreciation or joy, and equanimity.

    • By developing our potential through six perfect states of mind, the six paramitas.

    • By training our mind to transform defilements into love and compassion.

    2. Widen our motivation and outlook and gain deeper insight

    • By learning about and meditating on bodhicitta, the awakening mind.

    • By gaining an advanced insight that understands selflessness through direct experience.

    To be eligible for this second year, you must have either:

    1. attended the Year 1 in person (anywhere in the world)

    2. or completed the 50 hours of homework for Joy of Living 1

    3. or being a Mahamudra Ocean of Definitive Meaning student by His Holiness Tai Situ Rinpoche.

    For those new to Buddhism, the practice commitment is to practice at least 10 minutes every day for a minimum of 30 consecutive days. For those who are already practicing the Buddha Dharma, their actual practice will work as the commitment.

    During the year, there will be follow-up meetings with the Centre's resident teacher, Choje Lama Rabsang, so you will have an opportunity to ask questions, get clarification and support for your practice.

    Registration

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