Meditation & Daily Life
@ Bewdley
About this class
This class presents a wide variety of meditations from Buddha’s teachings, exploring how our meditation practice and daily life can work together to help us find peace, happiness and resilience.
Rather than feeling that we’re too busy to meditate, these classes help us to gain confidence that all daily events and challenges can be part of our meditation practice, and a path to a peaceful, fulfilling life.
Some more benefits of this class:
Practice relaxation meditation.
Learn how to meditate according the Kadampa tradition of Buddhism.
Develop powerful wisdom understanding your own mind.
See the below Q&A for more info about our classes.
Class details
📆 When:
Thursdays, 7:30pm - 8:45pm 📍 @ The Friends’ Meeting House, Bewdley
Full venue details below.
👨🏫 Teacher:
£7 each class. Block booking discounts are available. Book your place below.
Current & upcoming class topics
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January’s classes and courses explore the foundations of Kadampa Buddhist practice and how these methods benefit people of all backgrounds because of their scientific nature.
Thursday 9th: Scientific Methods Taught by Buddha
Buddha’s teachings are scientific methods to solve the problems of all living beings permanently. By putting his teachings into practice we will become permanently free from all our suffering and problems and eventually enjoy pure, everlasting happiness.
Thursday 16th: Faith - The Key to Inner Peace
When our mind is peaceful and calm we are really happy; but if our mind is not peaceful we are not happy, even if our external conditions are perfect. By receiving Buddha’s blessings with a mind of faith we will experience mental peace and enjoy true happiness within.
Thursday 23rd: How Our Mind Continues After Death
When we understand that our mind is a separate entity from our body we realise that even when our body dies our mind continues. In this way we can understand clearly the existence of our future lives and prepare for them now, in this life. There is nothing more meaningful.
Thursday 30th: What Is Modern Kadampa Buddhism?
Modern Kadampa Buddhism is a special presentation of Buddha’s teachings that is especially suited to the modern world. Everyone, even non-Buddhists, can benefit from it. Discover how it can help you transform your life.
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February’s classes and courses explore how to create a meaningful meditation practice that helps us live life to the full.
Thursday 6th: Controlling Our Mind With Lamrim
Everyone needs to make their life happy and meaningful, to solve temporarily their human problems and ultimately to find pure and everlasting happiness. We can accomplish this through Buddha’s Lamrim teachings from which we learn how to control our anger, attachment, jealousy, and especially ignorance.
Thursday 13th: What Is Meditation and How Does It Help?
We want to be happy all the time, even during our dreams. How can we do this? Through training in meditation. Meditation makes our mind become peaceful, and when our mind is peaceful we are happy all the time, even if our external conditions are poor.
Thursday 20th: What Is the Real Meaning of Human Life?
Material possessions, reputation, good looks, power, excitement, adventure and relationships can make us superficially happy for a short time, but they can never give us the real happiness that in our hearts we long for. This we can find only through an authentic spiritual practice.
Thursday 27th: How Awareness of Death Enriches Our Life
Although we usually do not like to think about death, Buddha says awareness of our mortality is the best way to make our life truly meaningful. Meditating on death opens the door to the spiritual path.
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March’s classes and courses explore how to turn every disadvantage into an advantage by developing an optimistic view of life as an incredible opportunity.
Thursday 6th: Avoiding Future Suffering
We may wonder what happens when we die. Buddha taught that the kind of rebirth we take depends on our actions, or karma, and he explained that performing non-virtuous actions is the main cause of taking lower rebirth. How can we be sure we do not take lower rebirth in our next life?
Thursday 13th: Who Can Really Protect Us?
When our life is in danger or we are threatened or sick we usually seek refuge in the police, doctors etc. But they can provide only temporary protection. We can enjoy permanent liberation from all sufferings only by seeking refuge in Buddha, Dharma and Sangha.
Thursday 20th: Do You Believe in Karma?
From non-virtuous actions comes suffering and from virtuous actions comes happiness: if we believe this, we believe in karma. Buddha gave extensive teachings that prove the truth of this statement and showed how we can use our understanding of karma to avoid future suffering and enjoy pure happiness.
Thursday 27th: The Truth About Suffering
In general, everyone who has physical or mental pain, even animals, understands their own suffering; but when Buddha said in his first teaching, ‘You should know sufferings,’ he meant that we should know the sufferings of our future lives and develop a strong wish to liberate ourself from them now while we have the opportunity.
Thursday April 3rd: What Causes Suffering?
The main cause of our suffering is our deluded minds, especially our self-grasping. If we abandon our self-grasping permanently, all our suffering and problems of this life and of countless future lives will cease permanently. How can we do this?
The Teacher for the Bewdley class
The Bewdley ‘Meditation & Daily Life’ class is led by our resident teacher, Gen Kelsang Khechog.
Known for his thoughtful nature, Gen Khechog presents Buddha’s teachings with relatable clarity, showing how to connect these beautiful meditations with the realities of modern daily life.
The venue
The Bewdley class is held at The Bewdley Friends Meeting House, Lower Park, Bewdley, DY12 2DP.
There is limited parking at the venue (we normally block each other in and work it out at the end of the night)! Redthorne House and Gardner’s Meadow carparks are very close and inexpensive.
Not been before? Please watch the short video below on how to get to the venue.
Questions?
FIND ANSWERS HERE
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Our classes have three parts:
Guided meditation
Every class (except for ‘Friday Night Lectures’) includes a chance to practise meditation. No prior experience is necessary and all the meditations are guided.
Teaching
From Buddha’s teachings, these practical talks help us to solve our daily problems and find peace, happiness and, if we wish, a deeper purpose in our busy lives.
Discussion
A chance to discuss the topic of the talk and meditation with others during the break over refreshments. No one is ever ‘put on the spot’ and asked to talk in a class. The teacher will normally make time for questions, and will be happy to clarify any points during the class too.
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Yes. Courses cover a wide variety of topics from simple stress reduction to profound wisdom teachings, but are always taught in an accessible way such that everyone leaves with some practical insight they can use in daily life.
One exception to this is our monthly ‘Tantra’ class. Please see the Tantra class page for details.
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No. People from all backgrounds attend JLC to find peace according to their own individual needs and wishes. Everybody is welcome.
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No special clothing is needed. Our courses do not include any physical exercise and most people choose to sit on chairs, though cushions are also set out for those who prefer to sit on the floor.
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Other than removing shoes before going in to the meditation room (they can be worn as normal elsewhere) and turning phones off during session, there are no special rules to follow. People are always very pleasantly surprised with just how informal, welcoming and down to earth Jangchub Ling is; you’ll feel right at home in no time.
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Walk-ins are very welcome. You can pay on arrival (cash/card) or book online in advance. Block booking discounts are available.
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Centre members can access several of our classes online and we hope to offer online courses in the future too. Please see our ‘membership’ page for a list of online classes.
More questions? We’d love to hear from you!
Bookings
Drop-in to this class or book your place here
Thursdays - Time: 7:30pm - 8:45pm
Venue: Friends Meeting House Lower Park, Bewdley DY12 2DP
Refreshments included
These classes are included in Regular & Regular Plus membership options
Cost: £7 per class or block booking discount