June 2008
with love and best wishes from Akanishta Kadampa Buddhist Centre
for more details please contact us on 01242 227 813 / 676 003
or email info@meditationincheltenham.org.uk
Living Meaningfully, Dying Joyfully
Meditation workshop in Cheltenham
with Kelsang Rinchen
We are alive, therefore we will die. This is the simplest, most obvious truth of our existence, and yet very few of us have actually come to terms with it. This course will provide a Buddhist insight into death and dying, helping us to develop an awareness of our own mortality in a way that will totally enrich and transform our human life.
Learn simple ways to live a meaningful life and prepare for a happy, controlled death, as well as practical advice for helping those who are dying.
Everyone is welcome.
Saturday 21 June
9.30am – 1.30pm
Parmoor House
13 Lypiatt Terrace, Lypiatt Road
Cheltenham
£10 (£8 concessions)
Explanation of facility fees
Bodhisattva Vow Ceremony
with Kelsang Rinchen
Now my life has borne great fruit.
My human life has attained great meaning.
Today I am born into the lineage of Buddha,
And have become a Bodhisattva. – Shantideva
A Bodhisattva (literally a ‘being bound for enlightenment’) is a friend of the world who, motivated by compassion, seeks enlightenment in order to benefit all living beings.
This ceremony is an opportunity to enter the Bodhisattva’s compassionate way of life, to make a promise to follow the path to enlightenment for the sake of others by practising the Bodhisattva’s deeds of giving, moral discipline, patience, effort, concentration and wisdom.
Everyone is welcome.
On this special occasion it is traditional and auspicious to arrange many beautiful offerings before the representations of Buddha’s body, speech and mind on the shrine. You are welcome to bring offerings for this purpose. In the same spirit, although there is no charge for the ceremony we welcome offerings towards the project to create a meditation centre in Cheltenham for the benefit of all.
Sunday 22 June
9.00am – 12.15pm
Parmoor House
13 Lypiatt Terrace, Lypiatt Road
Cheltenham
No charge. Donations to our New Centre Project welcome.
Local Meditation Classes in Cheltenham, Gloucester and Tewkesbury continue until 15 July
Click here for details of classes
Plus don’t miss out on the Summer Festival with Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (he will be retiring next year; listening to this living master while you still can is highly recommended)
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