Inner Strength – Overcoming Anger
Drop-in Meditation Classes
Livestreamed – Online
Day & Evening Classes Mondays to Fridays
This series of classes will explore why happiness and peaceful states of mind are short-lived, whilst negative states of mind, such as irritation and upset seem to appear with remarkable ease.
We will get to the root of our anger problem and look at methods to solve this through the practice of patience.
Many of us may not succumb to full blown anger but how many of us can say that we don’t get irritated or frustrated on a daily basis. Every day we meet with the unexpected and unwanted and unless we have trained our mind, our experience will be suffering and negative states of mind.
Taking teachings from the book How to Solve our Human Problems, we will discover the difference between outer problems and inner problems and by focusing on solving our inner problems of unpleasant feelings, we can learn to maintain patience when faced with even the most difficult circumstances.
“Just as there is room in the sky for a thunderstorm, so there is room in the vast space of our mind for a few painful feelings; and just as a storm has no power to destroy the sky, so unpleasant feelings have no power to destroy our mind.”
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche
Class Teachers
Gen Kelsang Päljin is the Resident Teacher of Burnley Kadampa Buddhist Centre and of Buddha Land Buddhist Centre, Keighley with over 20 years’ experience of practising and teaching Kadampa Buddhism. He is an inspirational, sincere and compassionate teacher who is able to explain Buddha’s teachings in a way that is particularly relevant for people of the busy modern day world. His teachings are given with warmth, humour and gentle encouragement and his “down to earth” approach appeals to every one.
Kelsang Dra-ma, a student of the Teacher Training Programme at Buddha Land Buddhist Centre, Keighley.
Class Titles
Inner Strength – Overcoming Anger
Inner Strength – Overcoming Anger
week beginning 23 Mar – Using Wisdom with Acceptance
week beginning 30 Mar – Learning Not to Retaliate
week beginning 6 Apr – Working with Difficult People
week beginning 13 Apr – Patience with Family
week beginning 20 Apr – Patience in Daily Life
Location
This course will be livestreamed.
