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Learn how to meditate and how we can solve our daily problems and find happiness within through Buddhist meditations and teachings. Everyone is welcome! Taught by senior Kadampa practitioner Jamie Holland.
Cost: $10 per class ($7 students/seniors and no-one refused for lack of funds)
Freedom From Fear
Wednesdays at 7:30 - 8:45pm
April 7 - 28
Fear can be a crippling mental state that can prevent us from living our best life. When our mind is vulnerable to anxiety and frustration, we suffer more than necessary with the uncertainties and challenges of life. Buddha’s teachings on patient acceptance help us to build a mental resilience that undermines the fears and emotional fragility that keep us trapped.
In this series of classes we will explore Buddhist methods for practicing patient acceptance in the face of suffering, hardship and disappointment. Patience is an inner strength that enables us to accept and grow from whatever life throws at us. By using these methods in our daily life we gradually develop a stable inner peace that cannot be disturbed by changing conditions.
Class schedule
| Apr 7 | What to do with unavoidable suffering? |
|---|---|
| Apr 14 | Mental stability from understanding our problems |
| Apr 21 | Resilience to painful feelings |
| Apr 28 | Living without fear |
This series is based upon the book How to Solve Our Human Problems, by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.
This book is available as an ebook from Tharpa Publications. You can also order a paper book for pick-up from Heruka Center. Please contact info@meditateinfortcollins.org to arrange a purchase.
Jamie is an experienced practitioner and teacher of Kadampa Buddhism, practicing in the Kadampa tradition since 2001. He now studies and teaches meditation regularly at Kadampa Meditation Center Colorado in Denver, where he has resided for the last eight years.
Jamie’s teachings are full of humor and practical examples that illuminate the depth of Buddha’s profound teachings, making them accessible for everyone to apply to their daily lives. His personable, kind manner communicates the benefits of meditation and modern Buddhism in practice, and his classes demonstrate the essential “how to’s” of a genuinely spiritual life in a way that all of us can understand.
Location ~ Fort Collins
Heruka Buddhist Center
149 W Harvard St, Suite 102
Fort Collins,
CO
80525
We are just off of College Ave. Harvard is two lights north of the mall, or the first light south of Drake. Go west one block to McClelland, turn south, and then immediately turn into the parking lot.
NOTE: Parking is on the south side of the building, and entrance is not from Harvard St., but McClelland Dr.
Using Wisdom to Stay Calm
Wednesdays at 7:30 - 8:45pm
May 5, 12, 19, 26
What if we could understand our pain and difficulties through Buddha’s teachings on the true nature of reality, emptiness? Through applying these wisdom insights into the true nature of our pain and problems, we can start to undo negative habitual reactions to our problems and use wisdom to stay calm in any situation.
Class schedule
| Times | Session |
|---|---|
| May 5 | Introduction to emptiness |
| May 12 | A wise direction for our anger |
| May 19 | The endless web of interdependence |
| May 26 | The real nature of pain |
This series is based upon the book How to Solve Our Human Problems, by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.
This book is available as an ebook from Tharpa Publications. You can also order a paper book for pick-up from Heruka Center. Please contact info@meditateinfortcollins.org to arrange a purchase.
Jamie is an experienced practitioner and teacher of Kadampa Buddhism, practicing in the Kadampa tradition since 2001. He now studies and teaches meditation regularly at Kadampa Meditation Center Colorado in Denver, where he has resided for the last eight years.
Jamie’s teachings are full of humor and practical examples that illuminate the depth of Buddha’s profound teachings, making them accessible for everyone to apply to their daily lives. His personable, kind manner communicates the benefits of meditation and modern Buddhism in practice, and his classes demonstrate the essential “how to’s” of a genuinely spiritual life in a way that all of us can understand.
Location ~ Fort Collins
Heruka Buddhist Center
149 W Harvard St, Suite 102
Fort Collins,
CO
80525
We are just off of College Ave. Harvard is two lights north of the mall, or the first light south of Drake. Go west one block to McClelland, turn south, and then immediately turn into the parking lot.
NOTE: Parking is on the south side of the building, and entrance is not from Harvard St., but McClelland Dr.