Blenheim Meditation Meetup

⋆ Every Sunday (August 16th - November 22nd)
⋆ 10am - 11.30am
⋆ Hall (Gompa) at Chandrakirti Centre
⋆ Dana/Koha welcome
⋆ Facebook Event

Class is followed by a free vegetarian community lunch.

Sunday classes are open to all, no prior experience with Buddhism required!

Children aged 6 and over are welcome to attend class or supervised childcare is available at the Main House while parents are in class. Children can be dropped off there, where a member of the Chandrakirti community will be present to care for them.

If you would like to make a donation to support this class, you are welcome to contribute to the donation box in the Gompa or make a donation through our Givealittle page

⋆ You don't need to bring anything with you, although you're welcome to bring a pen and notebook if you'd like to take notes.

⋆ We recommend arriving 10 minutes early to settle in before the class begins.

⋆ If you're unable to attend in person, Sunday classes are also livestreamed on Youtube so you can join from home

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With great kindness Geshe Jampa Tharchin will give a commentary on the text Seven Point Mind Training by the famous Kadampa scholar, Geshe Chekawa. These Sunday classes will show us how to live a happy and successful life.

If our mind is pure and peaceful we will be happy, regardless of our external conditions. When it is unsettled, we will never find happiness, no matter how much we try to change our external conditions.

The method to make our mind pure and peaceful is to train in meditation. The Sunday meditation class covers methods to achieve this.

Geshela emphasizes the Five Powers to be cultivated
The Power of Intention
The Power of the White Seed
The Power of Familiarity
The Power of Repudiation
The Power of Prayer/Dedication

Message us on Meetup or email meditate@chandrakirti.co.nz with any queries

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1.) BE YOUR OWN THERAPIST
Public talk Tuesday Nov 17th from 6.30pm

Suggested Donation $20

We spend our lives being seduced by the outside world, believing completely that happiness and suffering come from “out there.”
But if we look into our hearts we can see that this is not true, that the more we hold on to people and things and experiences, the more dissatisfied and lonely we become.
Happiness and suffering come from the way we perceive and interpret things, not the things themselves.

By becoming deeply familiar with the workings of our own minds and hearts through meditation and purification practices – truly, being our own therapist – we can slowly loosen the grip of ego-grasping and begin to open up our marvelous potential for clarity, contentment, love and the other qualities that are within us.

2.) THE NATURAL KARMA: WE CREATE OUR OWN REALITY
Open Dharma teaching Wednesday Nov 18th from 6.30pm

Suggested Donation $20

According to Buddha’s view of the world, the natural law of karma is such that everything we think and do and say programs us, basically turns us into the person we become. As His Holiness the Dalai Lama says, karma is like “self-creation.” We are, literally, the creators of our lives, our happiness, and our suffering.

We will talk about how to take responsibility for our actions and thoughts, learning to interpret our lives and the world around us without fear, and growing the confidence that we can determine our own reality, rather than feeling that life is a series of random events, all just good and back luck.
As Lama Yeshe says, “We create negative karma with our minds and we purify it by creating positive karma with our minds.”

3.) A BIRD NEEDS TWO WINGS: WISDOM AND COMPASSION
Thursday November 19th 9.30am to 5pm

A one day immersion into the heart of Buddhist practice with Ven. Robina Courtin. Followed by Guru Puja with Tsog Offering at 6pm

$80 includes lunch and refreshments

Compassionate action is the final the point of Buddhist practice, with our actions – helping our next-door neighbour or helping stop the destruction of the planet – needing to be grounded in wisdom. As His Holiness the Dalai Lama says, “Compassion is not enough; we need wisdom.”

First we need to develop our own marvellous potential to live our lives with self-confidence, contentment, and courage. The key to success is to recognize our own suffering and how it’s caused by our own attachment and anger and the other unhappy emotions. We become intimately familiar with our mind – the whole spectrum of our thoughts, feelings, and emotions – and learn to unravel and deconstruct them and, finally, change them. As Lama Zopa Rinpoche says, “We can mould our mind into any shape we like.”

We can go beyond our narrow sense of self and realize everyone else is in the same boat, and be of benefit to others. This brings the optimism and confidence that every small action really matters and we develop the courage to never give up. The great bodhisattvas are fierce in their determination to never give up on helping all sentient beings.

➡️ Sign up to these events

1.) BE YOUR OWN THERAPIST
Public talk Tuesday Nov 17th from 6.30pm
Suggested Donation $20

We spend our lives being seduced by the outside world, believing completely that happiness and suffering come from “out there.”

But if we look into our hearts we can see that this is not true, that the more we hold on to people and things and experiences, the more dissatisfied and lonely we become.

Happiness and suffering come from the way we perceive and interpret things, not the things themselves.
By becoming deeply familiar with the workings of our own minds and hearts through meditation and purification practices – truly, being our own therapist – we can slowly loosen the grip of ego-grasping and begin to open up our marvelous potential for clarity, contentment, love and the other qualities that are within us.

2.) THE NATURAL KARMA: WE CREATE OUR OWN REALITY
Open Dharma teaching Wednesday Nov 18th from 6.30pm
Suggested Donation $20

According to Buddha’s view of the world, the natural law of karma is such that everything we think and do and say programs us, basically turns us into the person we become. As His Holiness the Dalai Lama says, karma is like “self-creation.” We are, literally, the creators of our lives, our happiness, and our suffering.

We will talk about how to take responsibility for our actions and thoughts, learning to interpret our lives and the world around us without fear, and growing the confidence that we can determine our own reality, rather than feeling that life is a series of random events, all just good and back luck.

As Lama Yeshe says, “We create negative karma with our minds and we purify it by creating positive karma with our minds.”

3.) A BIRD NEEDS TWO WINGS: WISDOM AND COMPASSION
Thursday November 19th 9.30am to 5pm
A one day immersion into the heart of Buddhist practice with Ven. Robina Courtin. Followed by Guru Puja with Tsog Offering at 6pm
$80 includes lunch and refreshments

Compassionate action is the final the point of Buddhist practice, with our actions – helping our next-door neighbour or helping stop the destruction of the planet – needing to be grounded in wisdom. As His Holiness the Dalai Lama says, “Compassion is not enough; we need wisdom.”
First we need to develop our own marvellous potential to live our lives with self-confidence, contentment, and courage. The key to success is to recognize our own suffering and how it’s caused by our own attachment and anger and the other unhappy emotions. We become intimately familiar with our mind – the whole spectrum of our thoughts, feelings, and emotions – and learn to unravel and deconstruct them and, finally, change them.

As Lama Zopa Rinpoche says, “We can mould our mind into any shape we like.”

We can go beyond our narrow sense of self and realize everyone else is in the same boat, and be of benefit to others. This brings the optimism and confidence that every small action really matters and we develop the courage to never give up. The great bodhisattvas are fierce in their determination to never give up on helping all sentient beings

⋆ Every Sunday (August 16th - November 22nd)
⋆ 10am - 11.30am
⋆ Hall (Gompa) at Chandrakirti Centre
⋆ Dana/Koha welcome
⋆ Facebook Event

Class is followed by a free vegetarian community lunch.

Sunday classes are open to all, no prior experience with Buddhism required!

Children aged 6 and over are welcome to attend class or supervised childcare is available at the Main House while parents are in class. Children can be dropped off there, where a member of the Chandrakirti community will be present to care for them.

If you would like to make a donation to support this class, you are welcome to contribute to the donation box in the Gompa or make a donation through our Givealittle page

⋆ You don't need to bring anything with you, although you're welcome to bring a pen and notebook if you'd like to take notes.

⋆ We recommend arriving 10 minutes early to settle in before the class begins.

⋆ If you're unable to attend in person, Sunday classes are also livestreamed on Youtube so you can join from home

༻❁༺

With great kindness Geshe Jampa Tharchin will give a commentary on the text Seven Point Mind Training by the famous Kadampa scholar, Geshe Chekawa. These Sunday classes will show us how to live a happy and successful life.

If our mind is pure and peaceful we will be happy, regardless of our external conditions. When it is unsettled, we will never find happiness, no matter how much we try to change our external conditions.

The method to make our mind pure and peaceful is to train in meditation. The Sunday meditation class covers methods to achieve this.

Geshela emphasizes the Five Powers to be cultivated
The Power of Intention
The Power of the White Seed
The Power of Familiarity
The Power of Repudiation
The Power of Prayer/Dedication

Message us on Meetup or email meditate@chandrakirti.co.nz with any queries