Feb-March Healing from the Heart
Learn a sequence of time-honoured meditations called taking and giving that heal both mind and body. We can use these meditations when we are suffering, or when others we care about are suffering. And we can practise them in meditation and in our daily life.
This ancient meditative practice is the best way to transform all types of difficulty such as pain, illness, and anxiety into an opportunity to strengthen our inner peace, love and compassion. Taking and giving is a beautiful, profound method to transform our problems and the sufferings in this world into the very means for experiencing love, joy, compassion and wisdom. This practice brings mental peace and happiness, increasing our spiritual strength and capacity to overcome challenges while developing the supreme good heart of a Bodhisattva.
Everyone is welcome to these classes, regardless of previous experience.
Feb 24 Taking by means of compassion
Mar 3 How this meditation helps us deal with our own problems
Mar 10 Giving by means of love
Mar 17 Taking and giving with breathing meditation
Mar 24 How taking and giving heals physical illness
Further Classes
March 31st to April 15th, (no class April 24th) | Turning our Mind into an Ally
About the Teacher
Gen Kelsang Sanden is a Canadian Buddhist monk, and the Second Resident Teacher of Kadampa Meditation Centre Vancouver. He has been a long time student of Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, the founder of the New Kadampa Tradition. He is well loved for his compassion, sense of humour and the clarity of his teachings.