Introduction to Buddhist Meditation: How to Transform Your Life

*Please note: We are offering this event in person or via Zoom livestream. If you choose Zoom livestream, then after you submit payment, you will receive an email with a link to the meeting. This link is for your personal use only. Zoom will require you to login to your Zoom account, using your personal username and password*

“If we really want pure and everlasting happiness and freedom from misery, we must learn to control our mind, principally our desire.” – How to Transform Your Life, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso  

Every living being has the same basic wish – to be happy and avoid suffering. Although all living beings have the same basic wish to be happy all the time, very few people understand the real causes of happiness. Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes are not to be found outside the mind. If we want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must learn how to control our mind, principally our desire.  

In these classes, our Resident Teacher, Gen Norbu, will introduce the basic Buddhist teachings and meditations for inner peace, understanding death, rebirth, and karma. Start at the beginning of the series if you can, but if you cannot then start when you are able. 

Recommended reading: How to Transform Your Life by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. Free download here - https://tharpa.com/us/how-to-transform-your-life-us.html  

March 27 – Introduction: Controlling our Desire

April 3 – Happiness from a Different Source: Inner Peace

April 10 – How to Develop and Maintain a Peaceful Mind

April 17 – Past and Future Lives Explained: Rebirth

April 24 – Overcoming the Laziness of Attachment: Meditation on Death

May 1 – Creating Happiness, Not Suffering: Karma

May 8 – Special Mother’s Day Class: The Kindness of Mothers

May 15 – Renouncing our Cycles of Suffering: Samsara