Date/Time
Saturday 13 June 10am – 2.30pm
with Resident Teacher & Buddhist Nun Gen Kelsang Luma
Venue
Kalpa Bhadra Buddhist Centre, 24 Rugby St, Merivale, Christchurch
There is plenty of parking on the street but please do not park on the neighbours driveways.
About the Day Course
Learn a profound, purification practice which enables you to let go of mistakes, bad feelings, and the heavy burden of negativity from within your mind. We will focus on four special methods to remove negative karma known as the ‘four opponent powers’.
Do you spend most of your time and energy trying to avoid problems and experience happiness by changing other people, your situation and the world around you? No matter how much we try to avoid unhappiness and difficulties using this method, we never succeed.
Buddha explained that our unhappiness and difficulties don’t come from external things, but are the result of the negative actions, or ‘karma’, we performed in the past through our own harmful actions. Through purification practice we can dissolve away negative karma before it produces suffering and remove the real obstacle to a happy and meaningful life.
During this workshop or Resident Teacher, Gen Kelsang Luma, will explain how to purify past actions by relying upon Vajrasattva, the Buddha of purification. Through this we’ll purify our mind of negative karma, thereby removing the inner causes of problems and sufferings, and creating the causes of peace and happiness.
In this workshop you’ll learn:
- What are the causes of suffering and problems and why we need to purify;
- How to generate the four opponent powers for complete purification;
- How to engage in the purifying meditation and mantra recitation practice of Vajrasattva;
- How to purify past actions before they ripen as suffering.
The workshop will be followed by a weeks unguided retreat at the Centre in the practice of Vajrasattva. Each retreat session consists of prayers, some guided meditation, some silent meditation, and recitation of Vajrasattva’s mantra.
Cost
$55 – includes morning and afternoon tea. Free for Centre Members. Please bring your own vegetarian lunch to enjoy at the Centre or there are cafes nearby.
Timetable
9.50 – 10.00am Registration
10.00 – 11.00am Teaching/Meditation
11.00 – 11.30am Morning tea
11.30 – 12.30pm Teaching/Meditation
12.30 – 1.30am Lunch
1.30 – 2.30pm Teaching/Meditation
Booking & Cancellations
Booking is essential, so please book online now, or contact the Centre to book your place.
Cancellations: if you cancel your booking more than 24 hours prior to the start of the course or event, we offer a refund (the 25% deposit is non-refundable). If you cancel less than 24 hours before the event begins we regret that we cannot issue refunds. However you can transfer your booking to a future course.
What to expect at a class
These classes are based on Buddha’s teachings on the mind, but you do not need to be a Buddhist to attend, or to benefit from them.
There is no physical exercise involved and you can choose to sit either in a chair or on a cushion.
These classes are suitable for all levels of experience.