~ Our Evening Classes ~

Weekend and evening classes are open to everyone. Although presented as a series the evening classes also stand alone. Come to as many classes as you wish. Each class includes guided meditation a talk and questions and answers. Tea cookies and relaxed conversation follow. No pre-registration is required unless otherwise stated.

The Joyful Land Buddhist Centre is a non-profit organization dedicated to serving others. The cost for each class is $10.

Buddhist Thought and Meditation
Tuesday evenings 7:00 - 8:30pm
with Gen Kelsang Suma

Basic Buddhist teachings, meditations and practice, with suggestions on how to integrate Buddha's advice into daily life and activities.

July 8
Who was Buddha?

July 15
Understanding the mind – a storehouse of unlimited potential

July 22
Journey without end – past and future lives

July 29
What is karma and why should I care?

August 5
Our precious human life – a rare find

August 12
Meditation - cultivating mental peace

August 19
Endings are beginnings, too – revisiting death and impermanence

August 26
The Buddhist way of life – shelter from the storm

Each class includes a guided meditation, a teaching and plenty of time for discussion.

No previous knowledge/experience is necessary... just drop in.

The cost is $10 per class.



The New Meditation Handbook: A Summer Study Group
Wednesdays, 7:00 – 8:30 pm

If you would like to prepare ahead and/or explore these topics more fully, please read relevant sections from New Meditation Handbook, Joyful Path of Good Fortune or Transform Your Life.

July 9
Relying Upon A Spiritual Guide – our supreme unchanging friend

July 16
Our Precious Human Life – spending it wisely

July 23
Death and Impermanence – journey without end

July 30
Renunciation – jumping off the treadmill

August 6
Remembering the Kindness of Others – gratitude as a way of life

August 13
Great Compassion and Bodhichitta – becoming part of the solution

August 20
Emptiness – if seeing isn’t believing, what’s the real truth



 

 


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