Description
About the Classes
Suitable for everyone, these meditation classes offer simple, practical methods to improve the quality of our lives and develop inner peace. These classes focus on using Buddhist understanding to help us solve our daily problems, let go of negative minds and find the lasting happiness we seek.
Each class includes guided meditation, a practical teaching, and an opportunity to ask questions. Although taught as a series, each class is self-contained and can be attended individually.
This Month’s Class Schedule & Topics
October 2020 – How to Solve our Human Problems: The Four Noble Truths
“You should know sufferings. You should abandon origins. You should attain cessations. You should practice the path.”
– Buddha, Sutra of the Four Noble Truths
Do you ever feel like you just want to be happy, but the harder you try to get certain things, the more unhappy you become? Usually, we tend to blame external situations or other people for our suffering and problems, but if we let go of the distractions and negativities in our own mind, external influences will have less and less power to make us miserable. These classes will help us to see the underlying causes of our mental pain and dissatisfaction, then take a solution-oriented approach to letting go of the mental habits that keep us stuck.
Over 2600 years ago, Buddha diagnosed and offered a remedy to our most common and difficult human problems. In this series we will look at Buddha’s Four Noble Truths, which provide a framework from which we can both understand our suffering and problems and learn to be happy in a troubled world.
October 7 – The problem with uncontrolled desire: Suffering
October 14 – The inner source of unhappiness: Origins
October 21 – Inner peace is possible: Cessations
October 28 – Discipline, Meditation and Wisdom: The Path
Recommended Reading
These classes are based on the book “How to Solve our Human Problems” by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.
The book is available to purchase and download from Tharpa Publications at:
https://tharpa.com/us/how-to-solve-our-human-problems-us.html
About the Teacher
Lyn Fox is the meditation teacher for our Wednesday daytime meditation classes. He is a longtime Buddhist meditation practitioner, and has taught meditation classes at Kadampa Centers in Florida and New Mexico. He is appreciated for his joyful and practical presentation of the teachings.
Cancellation Policy
If you cancel more than 24 hours before the start of the class/event we will refund all except 25%. If you cancel within 24 hours before the start of the class/event, no refunds are given. Any non-refunded fees arising from cancellations are donated to the NKT-IKBU International Temples Project.
