Inner Strength, Dealing with Anger (from February 24th)

Drop-in Meditation Classes

In-person & Livestream

Day & Evening Classes Tuesdays to Saturdays

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

Classes cost £6 per session or free with our monthly membership programme.
Our monthly membership programme offers free access to all in-person & livestream weekly classes as well as discounts on courses for only £20 per month – Learn more.

Teachers

Most of the classes are taught by Gen Kelsang Päljin, the Resident Teacher of Buddha Land Kadampa Meditation Centre (which is in Keighley), and the Principal Teacher of Burnley Kadampa Buddhist Centre. He is a Buddhist monk with over 25 years’ experience of practising and teaching Kadampa Buddhism.

 

The Thursday 11am and Saturay 10.30am classes at Keighley are taught by Kelsang Dra-ma, a student of the Teacher Training Programme at Buddha Land Kadampa Meditation Centre, Keighley.

 

The Wednesday 11am at Keighley is taught by Patrick Allen, a student of the Foundation Programme at Buddha Land Kadampa Meditation Centre, Keighley.

 

The Tuesday 11am class in Burley-in-Wharfedale and the Wednesday 7pm class in Shipley are taught by Paul Cavanagh a student of the Foundation Programme at Buddha Land Kadampa Meditation Centre, Keighley.

Class Titles

Inner Strength, Dealing with Anger

week beginning 24 February – Choosing Patience

week beginning 3 March – Why We Get Angry

week beginning 10 March – Accepting Difficulties

week beginning 17 March – Wisdom With Acceptance

week beginning 24 March – Learn Not to Retaliate

week beginning 1 April – Working With Difficult People

week beginning 8 April – Patience With Family

week beginning 15 April – Patience in Daily Life (*No classes Good Friday and Easter Saturday)

Location

The course ‘Inner Strength, Overcoming Anger’ will run in person at the following times and locations (links will take you to the respective class website).