The Essentials for a Strong
Daily Meditation Practice
Half-day Course
Saturday Sept 6, 10am-1pm
At the Lantern, 35 Barnes Rd. in St. John's
(in the Lamaline Room)
with Buddhist monk & Teacher
Gen Kelsang Thekchen
To have. a strong and successful meditation practice we need to prepare our mind well. If we want to cultivate external crops, we need to make careful preparations. We need to remove anything from the soil that might obstruct their growth, such as stones and weeds. Second we need to enrich the soil with compost and fertilizer and third we need to provide moist conditions and sunlight to enable the plants to grow. In the same way, to cultivate the inner realizations of love, compassion and wisdom we need to weed our mind of negativity, enrich the mind with positive energy and make a connection with Enlightened Beings and receive their water like blessingsThis very special course will explain how to prepare our mind well for meditation based on the experience of all the great meditation masters of the past. Gen Thekchen will explain:
~ How to create a sacred space for meditation
~ How to set up a shrine and make offerings, and why we do this, and
~ How to properly prepare the mind for meditations on love, compassion and wisdom
This teaching is suitable for beginners and more experienced meditators. It is a follow-up to a Public Talk by Gen Thekchen in St. John's on Sept. 4, called "The Power of a Calm Mind" . For information about the Public Talk, please click here.
Questions? Please contact us at meditateinnfld@gmail.com
Cost & Registration
$15 for the Thurs. Sept 4 Public Talk at the Lantern in St. Johns
$30 for the Sat Sept 6 Half-day Course at the Lantern
or $40 for both the the Public Talk and the Sat Course.
Pre-Register in advance, or you can pay at the door with cash, debit or credit. Pre-registration will soon be available. We are unable to accept $100 bills.
The Essentials for a Strong Daily Meditation Practice
- Public Talk Thurs: $15
- Sat Course: $30
- Thurs & Sat: $40
Our Teacher for this event
Both the Public Talk and the Saturday Course will be led by Buddhist monk & Teacher Gen Kelsang Thekchen, who is a Kadampa Buddhist monk & senior Teacher in the New Kadampa Tradition. He has been a Teacher under the guidance of Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche for more than 30 years. Gen Thekchen has taught widely in Canada and in the UK, and is now the Resident Teacher at Kadampa Meditation Centre Ottawa. He is well known for his ability to present Buddha's teachings in a practical, profound and often humorous way, making them very accessible and easy to practise in everyday life.
To hear and/or view samples of teachings with Gen Thekchen, click on the podcast arrows below.
As conscientious Dharma practitioners, we should observe our own shortcomings instead of being preoccupied with those of other people.