Meditation in Cheltenham

Bodhisattva Vow ceremony

Kelsang Rinchen — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:59:59 GMT

When
Sunday 22 June
9.00am – 12.15pm

Where
Parmoor House
13 Lypiatt Terrace, Lypiatt Road
Cheltenham

Living Meaningfully, Dying Joyfully

Kelsang Rinchen — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:59:59 GMT

When
Saturday 21 June
9.30am – 1.30pm

Where
Parmoor House
13 Lypiatt Terrace, Lypiatt Road
Cheltenham

June 2008

Kelsang Rinchen — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:25:54 GMT

with love and best wishes from Akanishta Kadampa Buddhist Centre

for more details please contact us on 01242 227 813 / 676 003
or email info@meditationincheltenham.org.uk

Living Meaningfully, Dying Joyfully
Meditation workshop in Cheltenham
with Kelsang Rinchen

We are alive, therefore we will die. This is the simplest, most obvious truth of our existence, and yet very few of us have actually come to terms with it. This course will provide a Buddhist insight into death and dying, helping us to develop an awareness of our own mortality in a way that will totally enrich and transform our human life.
Learn simple ways to live a meaningful life and prepare for a happy, controlled death, as well as practical advice for helping those who are dying.

Everyone is welcome.

Saturday 21 June
9.30am – 1.30pm

Parmoor House
13 Lypiatt Terrace, Lypiatt Road
Cheltenham

£10 (£8 concessions)
Explanation of facility fees

Book now with a £5 deposit

Bodhisattva Vow Ceremony
with Kelsang Rinchen

Now my life has borne great fruit.
My human life has attained great meaning.
Today I am born into the lineage of Buddha,
And have become a Bodhisattva. – Shantideva

A Bodhisattva (literally a ‘being bound for enlightenment’) is a friend of the world who, motivated by compassion, seeks enlightenment in order to benefit all living beings.
This ceremony is an opportunity to enter the Bodhisattva’s compassionate way of life, to make a promise to follow the path to enlightenment for the sake of others by practising the Bodhisattva’s deeds of giving, moral discipline, patience, effort, concentration and wisdom.

Everyone is welcome.

On this special occasion it is traditional and auspicious to arrange many beautiful offerings before the representations of Buddha’s body, speech and mind on the shrine. You are welcome to bring offerings for this purpose. In the same spirit, although there is no charge for the ceremony we welcome offerings towards the project to create a meditation centre in Cheltenham for the benefit of all.

Sunday 22 June
9.00am – 12.15pm

Parmoor House
13 Lypiatt Terrace, Lypiatt Road
Cheltenham

No charge. Donations to our New Centre Project welcome.

Local Meditation Classes in Cheltenham, Gloucester and Tewkesbury continue until 15 July
Click here for details of classes

Plus don’t miss out on the Summer Festival with Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (he will be retiring next year; listening to this living master while you still can is highly recommended)

You are receiving this mail because you have indicated a preference for being kept up-to-date with our activities. If you do not wish to be contacted in future, please reply to this message with ‘unsubscribe’ in the subject line.

Day course with Gen Chonden on the practice of "Offering to the Spiritual Guide"

Kelsang Rinchen — Sun, 18 May 2008 23:59:55 GMT

When
Sunday 18th May
10.30 – 5.00

Where
Parmoor House
13 Lypiatt Terrace (on Lypiatt road)
Cheltenham

£20 (£15 concession)

May 2008

Kelsang Rinchen — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:18:04 GMT

Welcome to the May newsletter for meditation and Kadampa Buddhism in Cheltenham, Gloucester and Tewkesbury.

Special day course with Gen Kelsang Chonden on May 18th

Offering to the Spiritual Guide is a special Guru Yoga of Je Tsongkhapa that is related to Highest Yoga Tantra. Although the main practice is reliance upon the Spiritual Guide, it also includes the essential practices of all the stages of the path to enlightenment.
During this day course we will look at how to engage in some of these vast and profound practices and how they will benefit our mind.

We are delighted that Gen Kelsang Chonden, Resident Teacher of Amitabha Centre in Bristol, has accepted our invitation to come to Cheltenham. A monk for fifteen years, and senior disciple of Geshe Kelsang, his stable experience of the meaning of Buddha’s teachings, and warm heart, is an inspiration to all who know him.

Everyone is welcome.

Sunday 18th May, 10.30 – 5.00

Parmoor House
13 Lypiatt Terrace (on Lypiatt Road)
Cheltenham

£20 (£15 concessions)
Vegetarian shared lunch – please bring something along if possible.

Book now with a £5 deposit

Local classes continue until 15 May
…and resume again on the first week of June

Cheltenham
Mondays 7.30 – 9 at Parmoor House, 13 Lypiatt Terrace, Lypiatt Road, Cheltenham *Gloucester *
Tuesdays 7.30 – 9, Hucclecote Library

These classes are focusing for a few weeks on Buddha’s wisdom teachings and how meditation the true nature of phenomena is a blissfully liberating experience which can cut all our problems at their root.

40-minute lunchtime meditation classes at the Isbourne Foundation, 4 Wolsely Terrace, Cheltenham (off Oriel Road by the Town Hall)
Thursdays 1.10 – 1.50

Learn meditations to overcome the pain of anger.

Tewkesbury

Tuesdays 7.30 – 9, Tewkesbury Library These classes are focusing on Training the Mind, based on the book Universal Compassion

Special courses worth travelling to

Saturday 10 May Introduction to Wisdom with Gen-la Kelsang Khyenrab at Jangchub Ling Centre, Cradley Heath

Spring and Summer Festivals with Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Coming up in June
Living Meaningfully, Dying Joyfully
Meditation morning course with Kelsang Rinchen
Saturday 21 June, 9.30 -1.30 at Parmoor House
Book now with a £5 deposit

With love and best wishes from the Akanishta Centre team