Update Fall Festival 2020

In a powerful and blissful empowerment on 24th October, Gen-la Dekyong explained that when the world is pervaded entirely by problems and dangers due to uncontrolled minds and inappropriate actions, the practice of relying on the Medicine Buddhas is so important.

This was followed by a week of teachings and meditation retreat offered online.

November Meditation Classes on Tuesdays:
Happiness is an inside job

Happiness is a feeling. A feeling we all want and a feeling we want to keep. But in reality it seems difficult to find happiness and when we do its is hard to hang on to. It is so fickle and unpredictable. Laughter turns to tears, excitement to boredom, relaxation to restlessness, friendship to irritation and so on. But we keep trying. We can’t stop wanting. Nor should we. We just need to look in the right place. And that is very close – just an attitude away!

Our common sense tells us happiness is something that comes to us from the outside. From other people, possessions, holidays, clothes, entertainment. Yet what we experience is only temporary happiness, just short term relief from being unhappy. Of course, we can enjoy these things. But in themselves they will eventually disappoint us, bring new problems or we have to leave them behind. Our common sense is actually non-sense. Happiness is a feeling. Feelings only happen in the mind. The causes of real happiness lie in the mind.

If we learn to identify, increase and stabilise the inner causes of happiness we can be happy with everything we have – or without it. We gain everything and lose nothing but our confusion and frustration.

In this course Genla Kunsang will explain the inner causes of happiness, how to nurture them in meditation and apply them in our daily life.

Week 1. Inner peace, the foundation of happiness

Week 2. Knowing the causes of happiness – and its opposite

Week 3. Meditations to grow the seeds of happiness

Week 4. Putting daily life on an upward trend

Join us next Tuesday online or in-person
See more about our classes here

Update week 28 Sep – 4 Oct

This weekend we’ve live-streamed Italian Dharma Celebration

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Update week 5 – 11 Oct

Since we’ve reopen Maria is a regular volunteer at the centre.

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October meditation classes on Tuesdays

October Meditation Classes on Tuesdays: The Buddhist Approach to Unwanted Feelings Emotional Energy Saving We spend much of our day trying to

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Update week 12- 18 October

Refuge Vow Ceremony Previous Next On Saturday we were very happy to have 12 attendees at the centre and 27 online taking

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Update week 12- 18 October

Refuge Vow Ceremony

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On Saturday we were very happy to have 12 attendees at the centre and 27 online taking part in Refuge Vow Ceremony.

We see refugees in the news, facing great danger and hardship and making perilous sea voyages in search of safety and protection. But we too are refugees. Our ocean is samsara – and our fears and sufferings are those of this and all our future lives. When we go beyond the superficialities of this life we can find ourselves feeling lost, alone and frightened.

Discovering the practice of refuge gives us the opportunity to protect ourselves in this and future lives. It is the way we come inside Buddhism, under the protective canopy of Buddha’s teachings.

Going for Refuge means having confidence in Buddha as a reliable source of protection. It means relying on Sangha, the spiritual friends who guide and support us. And integrating Dharma, the actual power of Buddha’s teachings, into our own lives. In this course we did learn that the causes of going for Refuge, how to rely on Buddha, Dharma and Sangha and how our daily meditation practise becomes our actual protection in action.

How wonderful!

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Update week 28 Sep – 4 Oct

This weekend we’ve live-streamed Italian Dharma Celebration

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Update week 5 – 11 Oct

Since we’ve reopen Maria is a regular volunteer at the centre.

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October meditation classes on Tuesdays

October Meditation Classes on Tuesdays: The Buddhist Approach to Unwanted Feelings Emotional Energy Saving We spend much of our day trying to

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Update week 12- 18 October

Refuge Vow Ceremony Previous Next On Saturday we were very happy to have 12 attendees at the centre and 27 online taking

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October meditation classes on Tuesdays

October Meditation Classes on Tuesdays:
The Buddhist Approach to Unwanted Feelings

Emotional Energy Saving

We spend much of our day trying to escape unwanted feelings in one way or another. It consumes a great deal of our time and energy. Sometimes we just don’t want to feel anxious, bored, frustrated. Other times the fear of our own feelings can be so strong it threatens to paralyse us or turn us to jelly. We’ve all been there. Of course there are many ways to avoid painful feelings. Everything from bottling them up to hitting the bottle! But rarely do they work and often they make things worse and leave us tired and emotionally depleted. But don’t worry – there is an alternative.

Painful feelings exist only within the mind and so does the fear of them. We can learn how to respond to them in a more effective and rational way. And we can develop confidence in dealing with our feelings, even those which might normally overwhelm or exhaust us.

This four-week course will introduce Buddha’s unique understanding of painful feelings. We will learn practical meditations to reduce or eliminate the emotional pains that come with simply being human. They are not inevitable – just to know this is a great relief.

Week 1. Putting painful feelings in their place

Week 2. The positive outlook – overcoming discouragement

Week 3. Transforming problems into positive lessons for life

Week 4. Develop confidence in the midst of the pandemic

Join us next Tuesday online or in-person
See more about our classes here

Update week 28 Sep – 4 Oct

This weekend we’ve live-streamed Italian Dharma Celebration

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Update week 5 – 11 Oct

Since we’ve reopen Maria is a regular volunteer at the centre.

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October meditation classes on Tuesdays

October Meditation Classes on Tuesdays: The Buddhist Approach to Unwanted Feelings Emotional Energy Saving We spend much of our day trying to

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Update week 12- 18 October

Refuge Vow Ceremony Previous Next On Saturday we were very happy to have 12 attendees at the centre and 27 online taking

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Update week 5 – 11 Oct

Here is what’s going on at Kadampa Meditation Centre Edinburgh

Meet Maria, originally from Venezuela, now a resident in Edinburgh 🤩
 
Since we’ve reopen for in-person classes Maria is a regular volunteer at the centre.
 
We are open daily from 10.30am – 4pm, excepting Fridays.
Drop-in for a visit to enjoy the peaceful meditation room, the cafe or just to say hi!

Tuesday evening class - full house

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What is happening @ KMC Edinburgh

  • Update 14 Dec 2020December 14, 2020 - 12:06 pm

    From local to global – 2020 for Kadampa Meditation Centre Edinburgh KMC Edinburgh has spent 2020 joyfully streaming Kadam Dharma (Buddha’s teachings) across the world – and closer to home as well.  For many people in many countries this has been a year of difficulty, sadness and unease but we have tried to show that […]

  • Update 10-15 NovemberNovember 15, 2020 - 11:04 am

    Austrian Dharma Celebration 2020 Last weekend 7-9 November taught South African Dharma Celebration. This weekend dear Gen-la Kunsang is teaching an international course live-streamed to Austria as they are having their annual celebration of Dharma, or Buddha’s teachings in their country. During this event Gen-la is teaching in German on “The healing power of love”. […]

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