This beginners' course is an excellent primer for a newcomer to Buddhist meditation. Based on Geshe Kelsang's book, Transform Your Life, this 3-week course provides a practical foundation for beginning to meditate. We will learn what meditation is, how to practice it and how to use it to help us deal with the stresses and difficulties of life. Each class will begin with a brief guided meditation, followed by a teaching with some time for questions and answers and discussion. There will be another brief guided meditation at the end.

Pre-registration is essential for this series. It is only possible to attend the entire series.
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September 12         Meditation and the Development of Happiness
September 19         Establishing a Meditation Practice
September 26         Daily Life as a Spiritual Path

Chakrasambara Buddhist Center
322 Eighth Ave, Suite 502,
New York, NY 10001
(Entrance on 26th Street,
between 8th and 7th Ave.)

We are easily accessible by
the C/E to 23rd St.
or to 28th St. or 1/9 to 28th
Tel: (212) 924-6706





Karla Hassenstein. Karla works full time at Chakrasambara Buddhist Center as a senior teacher and the Center's spiritual education program coordinator. She currently teaches Prayers for World Peace on Sunday mornings at CBC as well as our Sunday Evening Introductory Series. In addition she is the branch teacher in Harlem. A longtime student on the Teacher Training Program at CBC, Karla has also studied Buddhist Ritual and Art at Nagarjuna Buddhist Center in England.

About the Buddhist Meditation Classes at the Center in New York City
Based in the traditions of Kadampa Buddhism, each class is structured to include a teaching, two meditations, a group discussion, and a questions and answers session.

No special clothing is required, and pre-registration is not necessary. This class is a branch of Chakrasambara Buddhist Center in New York.