Learn to meditate in half a day
Sat 28 June - Heruka Centre, Golders Green
These popular half-day courses are the perfect introduction to meditation. Each course includes guided meditations, advice on using meditation to solve daily problems, and time for questions and answers. Please book early as spaces are limited.
Either find out about the Learn to meditate course or
Meditation for beginners
Sat 19 July - Heruka Centre, Golders Green
With the hectic pace and demands of modern life, many people feel stressed and over-worked. Our stress and tiredness make us unhappy, impatient and frustrated. We are often so busy we feel there is no time to stop and meditate! But meditation actually gives you more time by making your mind calmer and more focused.
This course will include guided meditations, practical advice on how to overcome stress, with time for questions and answers. Everyone is welcome.
Either find out about the Meditation for beginners course or
NKT Summer Festival
25 July – 9 August, Manjushiri KMC, The Lake District
The Summer Festival is a special spiritual holiday when we receive extensive teachings from Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. During this, the seventeenth, Summer Festival, Venerable Geshe Kelsang will grant the empowerment of Thousand-armed Avalokiteshvara, the Buddha of Compassion, and give teachings based on Universal Compassion, his commentary to the famous text on training the mind in love and compassion, Training the Mind in Seven Points.
Find out about the NKT Summer Festival.
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Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
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Training the mind (4 weeks)
Starts week commencing 31 June
In this the last course before the summer break, we have the opportunity to gain some experience of the practices and meditations of Lojong, or Training the Mind. This course includes the practices of Exchanging Self With Others, a meditation to enhance our minds, and the meditation on developing Great Compassion, the supreme inner wealth which helps us to put this into practice in our daily lives.
To prepare the mind for these meditations, we first need to reduce our excessive concern for our own welfare through the practice of Cherishing Others. Here are some of the many advantages to this practice:
"When we think that others are important, and that their happiness and freedom are important, we are cherishing others. If we cherish others, we shall naturally perform actions that will cause them to be happy. This will make our daily life peaceful, happy, harmonious, and meaningful ... In Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, Shantideva says:
All the happiness there is in the world
Arises from wishing others to be happy."
The New Meditation Handbook by
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
You can either find out more about the book
The New Meditation Handbook, find your nearest class or
find out what to expect.
For a sample of some of the meditations we teach, visit
Living meditations - simple meditations for daily life.
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