Calm Abiding Meditation Course

Name: Calm Abiding Meditation Course
Start: 2024-09-25T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2024-09-25T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Center Space at St Andrews Center

Schedule

Wed Sep 25 2024 at 06:30 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Center Space at St Andrews Center | Chattanooga, TN

FIND CALM IN AN UNCALM WORLD
Leard CALM-ABIDING (concentration) MEDITATION in a 10-Week Course, IN-PERSON or ONLINE.
MORE INFORMATION & REGISTRATION: https://bit.ly/4bs25MY
🙏 IN-PERSON and ONLINE
🙏 10-week course in Calm-Abiding (Shamatha) Meditation
🙏 Tuesday evenings, 7:00-8:30 PM, June 18-August 27 (skip one week August 13)
🙏 At Center Space, in St Andrews Center, 1918 Union Avenue, Chattanooga TN 37405
🙏 Tuition is $95 plus a $25 book purchase. Partial & full scholarships are available for those who need it.
The goal of the Buddha's teachings is to reduce suffering and increase lasting happiness. We do so by through compassion and wisdom, and by practicing two forms of meditation: concentration mediation for calm-abiding, and analytical meditation for developing wisdom.
The class is meant for beginners as well as for more advanced meditators. Our groups are often made up of first-time meditators, but there are many who have already practiced meditation and are seeking another method or who wish to learn in a different tradition, or who wish to return to basics to re-examine their practice from a “beginners-mind” perspective. We teach from the perspective of the Tibetan Buddhist Gelug lineage – the lineage of the Dalai Lama. However, it is not necessary to be a Buddhist and the teachings are applicable in any path.
In this course we will explore all the fundamental elements necessary to attain calm-abiding according to Buddha's teachings: the preparations, the posture, the necessary conditions, the hindrances and how to overcome them, and how to progress through practice. Each course includes first an explanation on how to develop the mind's calm abiding, followed by a period of meditation in silence. This group practice can give more power to our meditation.
Classes will be available in-person and online. Also, classes will be recorded so you can have access if you must miss a class. The course is lead by Les Kertay (Lobsang Tharchin).