PATHWAY TO HAPPINESS
GUIDED LAMRIM RETREAT
MEDITATIONS ON THE STAGES OF THE PATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT
SATURDAY 23 - TUESDAY 26 AUGUST
with Resident Teacher
Gen Kelsang Tubchen
Discover a step-by-step path to inner peace and lasting happiness.
This special summer retreat offers the perfect opportunity to be introduced to – or to deepen your experience of – Lamrim, the stages of the path to enlightenment. These 14 powerful meditations are practical, reflective, and profoundly transformative.
Guided by Gen Kelsang Tubchen, a senior Buddhist teacher with over 25 years of retreat experience, each session includes clear, accessible teachings, beautiful sung Buddhist prayers, time for structured meditation, and space for quiet reflection.
Based on the presentation in the book How to Understand the Mind, the retreat follows the complete cycle of Lamrim meditations that awaken our spiritual potential and enable us to develop views, intentions and insights that are truly life changing.
During the retreat, you will:
- Reflect on the preciousness of your life and how to make it truly meaningful
- Deepen your understanding of karma and create the causes for future happiness
- Develop the wish for freedom through renunciation
- Cultivate authentic love and compassion
- Begin to explore the dream-like nature of reality through the wisdom of emptiness
This retreat is suitable for newcomers and experienced meditators alike.
Everyone is welcome.
Fee: £60 full retreat | £15 day | £5 session | members free
Venue: KMC Edinburgh | 172 Leith Walk, EH6 5EA
Saturday 23 August
🕤 9:30–10:45am
Session 1: Making Life Meaningful
Meditation on the preciousness of our human life
🕚 11:45–1:00pm
Session 2: Nothing Lasts Forever
Meditation on death and impermanence
🕟 4:30–5:45pm
Session 3: Why what we do matters
Meditation on the danger of lower rebirth
🕖 7:00–8:30pm
Session 4: Finding Inner Protection
Meditation on going for refuge
Sunday 24 August
🕤 9:30–10:45am
Session 1: Shaping Our Future with Wisdom
Meditation on karma
🕚 11:45–1:00pm
Session 2: Waking Up to a Deeper Purpose
Meditation on renunciation
🕟 4:30–5:45pm
Session 3: Understanding the source of our problems
Meditation on recognising, reducing and abandoning self-grasping ignorance
🕖 7:00–8:30pm
Session 4: Entering the Path to Freedom
Meditation on developing a determination to attain liberation
Monday 25 August
🕤 9:30–10:45am
Session 1: Love Without Limits
Meditation on cherishing all living beings
🕚 11:45–1:00pm
Session 2: A Heart That Cares
Meditation on compassion
🕟 4:30–5:45pm
Session 3: Inner Peace Is Possible
Meditation on the ultimate truth of cessation
🕖 7:00–9:00pm
Session 4: The Wish to Help Everyone
Meditation on the supreme good heart, bodhichitta
Includes Offering to the Spiritual Guide
Tuesday 26 August
🕤 9:30–10:45am
Session 1: A Path to Follow
Meditation on the promise to practise the six perfections
🕚 11:45–1:15pm
Session 2: The Self We Normally See Does Not Exist
Meditation on training in yogic direct perceivers (emptiness)
🥗 Shared Lunch & Group discussion on keeping the journey going
THE TEACHER
Gen Kelsang Tubchen is the Resident Teacher at KMC Edinburgh. She began practising Kadampa Buddhism in Scotland in 2000 and spent seven years living at Tharpaland International Retreat Centre when it was in Scotland. She helped establish the first Kadampa centre in Norway and was the National Spiritual Director of the New Kadampa Tradition in the Nordic region from 2013 – 2018 teaching through-out the area. She was the Resident Teacher at KMC Glasgow and, for the last 5 years, has been the Resident Teacher at KMC Aberdeen.
Gen Tubchen has been a dedicated, close disciple of Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche for many years, receiving ordination from him in 2003. An inspiring and gifted teacher, she is loved for her clear, powerful and practical teachings and her insightful retreat experience. She has a deep wish to share the benefits of meditation with others and her teachings touch the hearts of listeners and illuminate the profound meaning of Dharma.
THE VENUE
Kadampa Meditation Centre Edinburgh
172 Leith Walk,
Edinburgh
EH6 5EA
TRAVEL
Pay and display parking is available in the local area around the Centre.
The nearest tram stop to the Centre is Balfour Street, a few minutes walk away.
Buses also operate up and down Leith Walk.
