Meditation & Daily Life

included in your membership

@ Cradley Heath

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.

Class details

📆 When:

Sundays, 7:30pm - 8:45pm 📍 @ Cradley Heath

Next class break: No class on Sunday 25th May

👨‍🏫 Teacher:

Gen Kelsang Khechog

📆 When:

Thursdays, 7:30pm - 8:45pm 📍 @ Cradley Heath

Fridays, 11am - 12:15pm 📍 @ Cradley Heath

Next class breaks: No classes on Friday 23rd, Thursday 28th & Friday 30th May

👨‍🏫 Teacher: Harnack Sahota

Included in your membership. No need to book, just turn up

Current & upcoming class topics

  • 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.

    From Sun 2nd: 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?

    From Sun 9th: 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.

    From Sun 16th: 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.

    From Sun 23rd: 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.

    From Sun 30th: 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?

  • April’s classes and courses explore how we can develop a positive relationship with change.

    From Sun 6th: What Is a True Spiritual Path?

    A spiritual path is an inner path, or spiritual realisation, that leads us to the pure happiness of liberation and enlightenment. How do we train in such paths?

    From Sun 13th: Permanent Freedom From Suffering Is Possible

    Buddha said we should not be satisfied with merely temporary freedom from particular sufferings but apply great effort to attaining permanent freedom from all suffering. Only by following a correct spiritual path can we accomplish this freedom.

    From Sun 20th: Developing Affectionate Love for All Living Beings

    Buddha taught how to develop and maintain a warm heart and a feeling of being close to all living beings without exception. This affectionate love makes our mind pure and balanced, and prepares the foundation for generating cherishing love for all living beings.

    From Sun 27th: Equalizing Self & Others

    When we train in equalizing self and others we are learning to believe that the happiness and freedom of ourself and all other living beings are equally important. Learning to cherish others is the best solution to our daily problems, and is the source of all our future happiness and good fortune.

  • May’s classes and courses explore our relationship with ourself and with others, and how to make these relationships harmonious, meaningful and joyful.

    From Sun 4th: Exchanging Self with Others

    This profound practice enables us to change our perspective at a very deep level so that eventually we spontaneously believe that the happiness and freedom of each and every other living being are far more important than our own.

    - From Sun 11th: Wishing the Very Best for Everyone

    By training in wishing love we will genuinely wish for all living beings to attain the pure and everlasting happiness of enlightenment and make a strong determination to work for this aim.

    - From Sun 18th: Being Truly Compassionate

    Universal compassion is a mind that sincerely wishes to liberate all living beings from suffering permanently. We can develop this mind spontaneously by training in special meditations taught by Buddha.

    - No classes week commencing 25th because of Spring Festival

The Teacher for the Sunday class

The Sunday ‘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 Teacher for the Thursday and Friday classes

The Thursday and Friday ‘Meditation & Daily Life’ classes are led by Harnack Sahota.

Harnack has studied and practiced Buddhist meditation for many years. His experience of applying these methods to daily life makes his teaching relatable and effective.

Questions?