Introduction to Meditation

Five Thursdays
August 14–September 11, 2025
6:00–7:30 pm

We can make friends with our minds and become present to our lives through working with our breath.

In meditation we begin to discover how our minds work. Becoming familiar with our minds and our habitual patterns, we can begin to free ourselves from painful struggles and confusion.

The process of meditation enables us to find fundamental openness, ease, and compassion, aspects of our minds that are sometimes buried beneath layers of thinking. We begin to be able to embrace all aspects of experience in daily life.

Registration
Please register on the Nalandabodhi Seattle website to attend Introduction to Meditation.

https://seattle.nalandabodhi.org/events/?em_search=introduction%20to%20meditation

Who: beginners to meditation and those who can benefit from a review of the basics of calm abiding (shamatha) meditation.

Since the course has only five classes which are designed to build on one another, we recommend that new students only join during the first and second classes.

When: Thursday evenings, 6:00–7:30 pm, August 14 through September 11, 2025

What: This course is designed to help beginners establish an ongoing meditation practice, and will include meditation instruction, guided meditations and discussion. We will be using Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche’s book, Rebel Buddha as a guideline for the study of some basic Buddhist tenets and the practice of meditation. Rebel Buddha can be purchased at the Nalanda Store at Nalanda West.

Where: onsite at Nalanda West in the Mahabodhi shrine room