Drop-in Meditation Classes

A Spiritual Way of Life

Classes start w/b 7 June

Sometimes we wonder how we can live a more spiritual life in the midst of the busyness of everyday life. In this series of classes, the practical application of the 6 perfections of giving, moral discipline, patience, effort, concentration and wisdom will be explained enabling us to integrate them into our life with meaningful results.

See our classes page. for details of locations, venues and times including our monthly classes in Settle (28 June) and Grassington (7 July).

Meditation Workshop

Jewelled Universe

Saturday 12 June 10am- 2pm

Our world is an appearance to our mind, a pure world appearing to a pure mind and an impure world appearing to an impure mind. In this practical Workshop, we shall learn about the practice of mandala offerings, where we offer the entire universe as a pure world.

Day Course

Everything to Learn, Everything to Gain

Sunday 20 June 10am - 5pm

If we held the view that we could learn from every situation in our life and every person that we meet then we would have so many opportunities to progress in life. However, at the moment, we are only open to learning from a few. Gen Kelsang Paljin will give teachings on the concept of humility, a state of mind held by all realized Buddhist masters. By following the instructions we too can come to know for ourselves that there is everything to gain from this exalted state of mind.

Stop the Week

Friday 25 June 7.30pm

Join us for a short, guided meditation, a brief teaching and a 3 course vegetarian meal in the best of company in our beautiful new cafe area. This month we shall be hosting English evening. Apart from Buddha Land Centre, there are over 40 Kadampa Dharma Centres in England, if you would like to see where they are, please go to www.kadampa.org

Please book in advance for this popular event either by sending a deposit of £5 or by paying via Paypal on our website.

Fundraising

Take the £100 Challenge!

We have so far raised £14,000, including a grant from the Big Lottery Fund, to establish a World Peace Café. However we still need to raise about £4000 to complete this project which is scheduled to open in September. Can you help?

We are looking for 20 people to raise just £100 each and so far 14 have signed up. Perhaps you could help, organising a sponsored event, runing a car boot sale, selling something or just simply donating £100. If you are up for joining the challenge, please drop us an email with your idea. Dra-ma, Leo and Marta have completed sponsored challenge events, sponsor any of them online here.

Disabled Access

Unfortunately the centre is not accessible for disabled people at the moment but we would like it to be! There are several steps up to the entrance, the meditation room is on the first floor and there is no disabled toilet. To assist us in improving access, we need to undertake a comprehensive disability survey which costs in the region of £700. Following on from this, we can then apply for grants to assist with the cost of the work. Could you help with donating some money towards this cost of the survey?

Special Event

Wisdom & Compassion Day Course

Saturday 26 June

Gen-la Dekyong the General Spiritual Director of the NKT will teach this course, at Manjushri KMC, explaining the importance of these qualities. Click for more details.

Coffee Mornings

Continuing Saturday mornings from 10.30am -1pm raising funds for the café. Try our coffee & cake and/or pop in for a chat. If you could help out one Saturday or bake a cake, please drop us an email.

Buddha Land Blog

Catch up with the latest postings from our recent events: our Weekend Retreat to Madhyamaka, Why Me? Day Course and May Stop the Week here.

Items Needed

If anyone could donate any of the following it would be wonderful:
Kenwood cake mixer
Freezer