Edinburgh Guided Meditation Meet Up Group

Take 15 minutes out to relax, clear your mind and enjoy simple guided meditations to help you stay happy and positive and leave you feeling refreshed and recharged for the rest of the day.

While the meditations offered are Buddhist, they generally appeal to anyone wanting to cultivate a deeper state of peace and authentic happiness.

No need to book – just drop in. Everybody welcome!

No Fee

Venue: KMC Edinburgh, 172 Leith Walk, EH6 5EA

“Being under the influence of wrong views, you do not realise the nature of things; therefore investigate correct meanings.”

Wisdom and intelligence are two quite different things. Wisdom means recognising what is true and what is not true, and it frees us from ignorance, confusion and unknowing. Buddha gave profound teachings on the wisdom realising emptiness — the ultimate nature of things — as a method for accomplishing true inner freedom and liberation.

In this four-week series, we have an exceptional opportunity to investigate correct meanings through listening to wisdom teachings and being guided in practical meditations on emptiness. In this way, we can gradually illuminate our mind so it becomes increasingly free from the dark, shadowy veils of ignorance that keep us trapped in suffering.

Discover for yourself how living with wisdom has the power to help you live lightly, free from the tightness of self-grasping and with a more spacious and positive mind.

Let timeless advice from Atisha bring fresh insight into your life — and help you reconnect with what truly matters.

Each session includes guided meditations, practical teachings, and time for discussion and questions. Whether you’re new to meditation or wish to deepen your experience of Buddhist wisdom, everyone is welcome.

Fee: £10 per class | £30 for all 4 weeks | Members free
Includes light refreshments after class

Venue: Kadampa Meditation Centre Edinburgh | 172 Leith Walk, EH6 5E

Join Buddhist nun Kelsang Varahi for a 45 minute lunchtime class to relax and clear your mind. Enjoy a short teaching and two guided meditations to help you develop a happy and positive mind and leave feeling refreshed and recharged for the rest of the day. These classes are based on wisdom from The New Eight Steps to Happiness by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche.

Book a place or drop in. Everybody welcome!

Fees: £6 | members free | £8 incl speciality coffee or tea (£1 extra for matcha latte)

Venue: KMC Edinburgh, 172 Leith Walk, EH6 5EA

What if the way things appear is not the way they actually exist?

According to Buddha, it is our mistaken view of reality that keeps us trapped in suffering.

Discover how the wisdom understanding emptiness completely transforms the way we see ourselves, others and our life. By learning to view things correctly through the lens of emptiness we can free our mind from all its limitations and begin to experience a deep, stable freedom from within.

Drawing on over 20 years of experience, Gen Tubchen will guide meditations and give teachings that enable us to correctly identify our self, to stop grasping at our mistaken projections of mind and to make real progress on the peaceful inner spiritual path to liberation.

Through clear explanation and guided meditation, we will explore:

How our mind creates reality

how ignorance creates all our mental pain

what emptiness actually means

how to experience emptiness in meditation & reduce self-grasping in daily life

Everyone is welcome and no previous experience is necessary.

This course is especially suitable for those wishing to deepen their Dharma practice and offers a rare opportunity to connect with a wisdom view that genuinely changes everything — opening the door to lasting inner liberation.

Schedule:

Session 1 | 10.30 – 11.45am
Session 2 | 12.30 – 1.30pm

Fee: £15 | members free

Venue: KMC Edinburgh | 172 Leith Walk, EH6 5EA