Fri 25 Sep 10:30am-12:00pm
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.

Fri 2 Oct 10:30am-12:00pm
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.

Fri 23 Oct 10:30am-12:00pm
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.

Fri 30 Oct 10:30am-12:00pm
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.

Fri 6 Nov 10:30am-12:00pm
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.

Fri 13 Nov 10:30am-12:00pm
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.

Fri 20 Nov 10:30am-12:00pm
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?

Fri 4 Dec 10:30am-12:00pm
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.

Fri 11 Dec 10:30am-12:00pm
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.

Fri 19 Feb 10:30am-12:00pm
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.

Fri 5 Mar 10:30am-12:00pm
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?

Fri 12 Mar 10:30am-12:00pm
What is a True Spiritual Path?

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

Fri 19 Mar 10:30am-12:00pm
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.

Fri 26 Mar 10:30am-12:00pm
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.

Fri 2 Apr 10:30am-12:00pm
Equalizing Self and 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.

Fri 9 Apr 10:30am-12:00pm
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.

Fri 16 Apr 10:30am-12:00pm
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.

Fri 23 Apr 10:30am-12:00pm
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.

Fri 30 Apr 10:30am-12:00pm
Becoming a Friend of the World

We become a Bodhisattva, a true friend of the world, by developing the supreme good heart known as bodhichitta. This is a spontaneous wish to attain enlightenment for the benefit of all living beings. There is no greater beneficial intention than this precious mind.

Fri 7 May 10:30am-12:00pm
Six Steps to Enlightenment

When we train in the six perfections of giving, moral disciple, patience, effort, concentration and wisdom we are training in the actual path to enlightenment. Through following this path with the vehicle of bodhichitta we shall definitely reach the state of enlightenment.

Fri 14 May 10:30am-12:00pm
Taking on Suffering

Through special meditations with a mind of sincere compassion we imagine ourself taking on others’ sufferings.This practice leads to an especially deep realization of compassion and bodhichitta.

Fri 21 May 10:30am-12:00pm
Giving Pure Happiness

This training in giving is a special meditation on wishing love that sincerely wishes all living beings to attain real happiness – the pure and everlasting happiness of liberation and enlightenment.

Fri 11 June 10:30am-12:00pm
The Way Things Really Are

Buddha said that all phenomena are mere appearances to mind, totally dependent on the minds that perceive them. Their ultimate nature is emptiness. How can we understand this, and what does it mean for us?

Fri 18 June 10:30am-12:00pm
The Emptiness of Our Body

When we become familiar with meditation on the emptiness of the body, our grasping at our body will be reduced, we will experience far less suffering, anxiety and frustration in relation to our body, our physical tension will diminish and our health will improve.

Fri 25 June 10:30am-12:00pm
Mind is the Nature of Emptiness

By contemplating, ‘All phenomena that appear to my mind are the nature of my mind. My mind is the nature of emptiness,’ we will eventually gain an undefiled wisdom that directly realizes the emptiness of all phenomena.

Fri 2 July 10:30am-12:00pm
How to Stop Grasping at I

The object we grasp at most strongly is our self or I. By understanding and meditating on the emptiness of our I, this grasping will reduce and eventually cease altogether. Then we will be permanently free from all suffering.

Fri 9 July 10:30am-12:00pm
Freedom from Extremes

Learn eight special meditations that help us to reduce and eventually eradicate eight different aspects of our self-grasping.

Fri 16 July 10:30am-12:00pm
Rest Your Mind in the Experience of Emptiness

Lean how to meditate on emptiness without obstruction, like an eagle soaring through the vast expanse of the sky with only minimal effort to maintain its flight.