Wednesday Evenings
7:00pm - 8:30pm

According to Buddha, we all have within our minds the potential to experience limitless joy, love and freedom from unhappiness. This may sound too good to be true and very different from how we normally perceive ourselves. However, our ordinary limited view of our self, the one that we base all our thoughts and actions upon, is incorrect. Buddha clearly demonstrates how the painful self we normally relate to, called self-grasping ignorance, underlies all our tension, anxiety, pain, and suffering; and through a profound  meditation, known as meditation on emptiness, he shows us how to let go of that limited version of our self and our world, and open ourselves up to whole new and wonderful way of being - a happiness that enables us to live lightly and joyfully in the modern world.

In this series, Kadam Donna will guide us through the extraordinary chapter on the ultimate nature of reality, emptiness, from Geshe Kelsang Gyatso’s book, The New Eight Steps to Happiness.

Everyone welcome! Suitable for both beginners and experienced meditators.


This week’s class, Jan 28: How Dreams Help Us Understand Reality
Feb 4:    The Emptiness of the Body
Feb 11:  Meditating on Emptiness
Feb 18:  The Emptiness of the Mind (with Mayank Bahl)
Feb 25:  Our Mind Can Change Profoundly
Mar 4:   The Emptiness of the Self
Mar 11:  How Everything Teaches Us Emptiness

No pre-registration necessary!

$12/class | FREE for Members. Learn more about becoming a member here.

Parking:
IMPORTANT! At all times, regardless of the empty spaces in the building lot, please use the parking lot at the corner of Lester Avenue and Nostrand Avenue ONLY*. Tenants in the building with designated spaces do come at random times and we don’t want to create any imposition for them. The lot diagonally across the street is FREE.

*There are two designated handicap spaces in the building’s lot, if you need one.