Loving Kindness Meditation

7:00pm 30 November 2018 - 5:30pm 02 December 2018

Cost: £63.00

Venue: Samye Ling

To book this course please select it in the Extras offered after you have chosen your accommodation on the booking form. Please click here to book.

A wonderful opportunity to experience a weekend of lovingkindness meditation with experienced meditator and best-selling author Torey Hayden.

The course will begin with an introduction to the concept of meditating for lovingkindness and compassion on Friday evening and then move on to six one-hour sessions of meditation on Saturday and Sunday.  These will include both guided and traditional meditation.  Participants will be free to attend Chenrezik Prayers on Saturday night.

While the heart of the course is drawn from traditional Buddhist metta or compassion meditation practice, it will be taught from a secular perspective and in a format similar to Torey’s other meditation classes.  Consequently, it is appropriate for anyone interested in bringing compassion and lovingkindness into their daily meditation, regardless of religious background.  Because of the powerful nature of this kind of meditation, however, participants are requested to have an already established practice of basic (focused attention/mindfulness/shinay/shamadha) meditation.

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The Buddhist principle is to be everybody's friend, not to have any enemy.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
Meditation means simple acceptance.
Choje Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche
Only the impossible is worth doing.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
Whenever we see something which could be done to bring benefit to others, no matter how small, we should do it.
Chamgon Khentin Tai Situ Rinpoche
Freedom is not something you look for outside of yourself. Freedom is within you.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
Hasten slowly, you will soon arrive.
Jetsun Milarepa
It doesn’t matter whatever comes, stop judging and it won’t bother you.
Choje Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche
Whatever obstacles arise, if you deal with them through kindness without trying to escape then you have real freedom.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
To tame ourselves is the only way we can change and improve the world.
Choje Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
Strive always to be as kind, gentle and caring as possible towards all forms of sentient life.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
Every sentient being is equal to the Buddha.
Chamgon Kentin Tai Situ Rinpoche
Wherever and whenever we can, we should develop compassion at once.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
Reminding ourselves of how others suffer and mentally putting ourselves in their place, will help awaken our compassion.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche