We are please to present a weekend of..
Meditation instruction and advice from Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche
Saturday 29th - Sunday 30th April, 10.00 - 4.00 pm
£55
This will be a weekend of meditation instructions with time for questions and actual meditation practice, suitable for all. During the weekend, there will also be a Refuge ceremony for those people who wish to formally become Buddhists. To see the full programme for the weekend, just click here.
For those new to meditation, Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche writes:
"For beginners, it is always very good to approach meditation with a very open mind. We should not start meditating with the wish to have a peaceful mind, very good experiences, and so on. If we expect certain experiences, we will just be watching for them to come and when things do not happen as we want, we will feel very dissatisfied.
To have a 'beginners attitude' we should be open minded without expectations. We should sit in a quiet place with no distractions and give ourselves time to meditate, allowing our body and mind to relax and settle. Our body sits here and our mind stays with our body. In this way, whenever we see our mind jumping out of the room, we just kindly bring it back. It doesn't matter how many times we have to repeat this. If today we have to bring it back every second for half an hour of meditation, it is still worthwhile.
Things can go wrong when our worldly impatience starts to manifest. But getting upset destroys everything. We should be be very patient and patience means never getting upset, never getting angry. Let's be happy and feel good that we can just be aware of our mind wandering away and remember to bring it back. If we think that our mind is too bad and if we get angry or feel miserable, we cannot make any progress."
Book your place for this weekend course now by phoning the Centre on 020-8440 4925, or email London@samye.org
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