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With lakes, mountains, beaches and beautiful
cities, North Carolina is one of the most externally beautiful states
in the US where it is easy to find places of external peace and
tranquility.
Many people in North Carolina have material success and wealth
and the resources to enjoy the external beauty, but still experience
unhappiness, dissatisfaction, anger, relationship dificulties, and
the pain of disppointment in never finding a happiness that lasts.
At Kosala Buddhist Center we offer meditation
instruction; teachings on Buddhist view; study
programs for different levels of experience; opportunities
for Buddhist practice with chanted meditations;
and other devotional activities.
You are welcome to visit our center and drop in to our general
meditation classes or chanted meditations. Check thelinks on the
left for classes in your area, and the listings below for upcoming
class and workshop dates and times.
Click here for upcoming events and classes.
Click here for contact and location information.
Because happiness is a state of mind you cannot find it outside
your mind. Meditation
can help you find it there.
By following very simple instructions you can learn meditation
methods that are as powerful today as they were 2500 years ago,
to find and build the lasting peace you are looking for.
Through learning and practicing simple
meditation methods you can become more calm and peaceful,
and cultivate the concentration and wisdom to see the beauty
that abides in every person including your self, and every place
including your own surroundings.
These inner qualities developed
through meditation are your true sources of refuge when the going
gets tough, and are the tools that enable you to find and maintain
the lasting peace and happiness you are searching
for.
Meditations and discussion topics in July and August 2004.
The dates and locations of meetings are as follows:-
Week 1 July 1, week 2, July 8, week 3 July 15, week 4 July 22,
week 5 Aug 19, week 6 Aug 26
Week 1 June 28; week 2 July 5, week 3 July 12, week 4 July 19,
week 5 July 26, week 6 Aug 16
, tel 919.403.8084
Week 1 June 29, week 2 July 6, week 3 July 13, week 4 July 20,
week 5 July 27, week 6 Aug 17
The meditations and discussion are related to the first six of
the 21 meditations of
Lamrim contained in The New Meditation Handbook
by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (MH). These cover the Initial Scope and
Intermediate Scope of Mahayana Buddhism. Related reading is from
Introduction to Buddhism, (IB) and Joyful Path of
Good Fortune. (JP), all by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.
Preliminary Meditation, Relaxing and Breathing Meditation
Discussion of MH Foundation p 3-23, IB p 35-39
Discussion of how precious do we view our human life?
Meditation: MH p 30-32
Related reading, IB p 35-39, JP p 89-94
Preliminary Meditation, Relaxing and Breathing Meditation
Discussion of the benefits of thinking about death.
Meditation: MH p 33-36
Related reading, IB p 41-43 JP p 144-171
Preliminary Meditation, Relaxing and Breathing Meditation
Discussion of the existence of lower types of being and whether
and how we can avoid rebirth as a lower being.
Meditation: MH p 37-39
Related reading: IB p 35-39 JP p 172-188.
Preliminary Meditation, Relaxing and Breathing Meditation
Discussion of what we turn to when things get difficult, and when
they get easy.
Meditation MH p 40-41
Related reading: IB p 44-48, JP p 189 226
Preliminary Meditation, Relaxing and Breathing Meditation
Discussion of how we can explain our present circumstances, and
ways of being by contemplating our past actions.
Meditation: MH 42-44
Related reading: IB p 23-29, JP p 227-263
Preliminary Meditation, Relaxing and Breathing Meditation
Discussion of the real causes of our problems and suffering.
Meditation: MH p 63-64
Related reading: MH p 45-62, IB p 51-62, JP p 267-270, 367-378.
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