Meditate & discuss the Buddha's teachings

The Buddhist Study & Meditation Group meets every Monday night from 6 - 7pm at the Common Street Spiritual Center in Natick. Please use the School Street entrance. If you go to the top floor, we are down the hall on the left, in the meditation room. Cushions and floor seats are provided (chairs are available).

Over the course of the year this group will be moving through a sequence of seven meditation practices which represent the full range of meditation practices presented in Tibetan Buddhism. These practices correspond roughly to the Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana. They are designed to lead practitioners to complete inner freedom. But you don’t need to be a Buddhist to train in them. Anyone can benefit from these profound practices. And while each of the seven practice builds upon the previous one, you don’t need to have attended the group from the beginning to join. You are welcome to drop in at any point, regardless of your level of experience with meditation. We will spend about a month or two on each of the seven practices, moving from the most basic practice to the highest form of meditation, known as “nonconceptual meditation.” Our weekly meetings will consist of a 20 minute meditation followed by a short discussion of the particular practice we are on. For a meditation manual, we will be using, “The Relaxed Mind“ by Dza Kilung Rinpoche to guide us. Photocopied handouts of the chapter we are on will be available at each meeting, so no need to buy the book, unless you want to, of course.

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