Jersey City Buddhist Meditation Class

A New Way of Being - The Meditation on Realizing Our Potential and Purpose

$10 per class, free for supporting members

Because “our world” is really only our personal experience of what we perceive and how we perceive it, Buddha has explained that if we change our mind we change our world. Our experience of the world depends on our state of mind.

A New Way of Being: The Meditation on Realizing Our Potential and Purpose. The first meditation in the Lamrim is the meditation on our Precious Human Life. The purpose of this contemplation is to lead us to recognizing the incredible potential and purpose of our present human life, giving rise to an abiding experience of joy, gratitude, a powerful motivation to make the most of every day.

For this meditation to succeed, we need to actually engage in it! In this series we will explore how to do more than just occasionally ‘dip our toe’ in the wisdom of the teaching on our Precious Human Life. We will learn how to immerse ourselves in this liberating and joy-inducing wisdom, both in meditation and, even more importantly, during the meditation break, in our daily life.

January 5: A New Way of Being, with Jessica Rispoli
January 12: The Key to Increasing Your Happiness, with Jessica Rispoli
January 19: The Wonder of Our Human Life, with Jessica Rispoli
January 26: Igniting Energy and Purpose, with Jessica Rispoli
February 2: The Actual Meditation on Precious Human Life, with Jessica Rispoli
February 9: Finding Enjoyment and Meaning in All You Do, with Jessica Rispoli

NEXT SERIES

Valentine's Weekend Special -- A Love Less Ordinary

Although we always seek happiness in our close relationships, so many of those relationships wind up burdened with too much of the opposite: Unhappiness. According to Buddha this is because we often confuse desirous attachment for love. Desirous attachment is a deluded, unpeaceful state of mind that sees the other people as our source of happiness, and consequently expects these people to make us happy. But it is a con job. Happiness doesn’t come from other people. It comes from our own mind. Desirous attachment undermines our love for family, friends and others, making those relationships ordinary and setting us up for dissatisfaction and conflict
again and again.

In this class we will learn how to recognize and reduce our desirous attachment and to replace it with an authentic love that actually does reveal pure happiness.

February 16: Love is your Nature. - Living a Life in Love-with Jessica Rispoli

Next Series: The Amazing Meditation for Healing Body & Mind

"The meditation known as Taking and Giving, in Tibetan ""tonglen"", has been used for centuries as a healing meditation. Not only is this meditation legendary for its physical healing properties, it is also a powerful method for healing painful mental tendencies such as insecurity, anger and hurt. Taking and Giving practice gives rise to innumerable benefits,
including boosting positive energy, purifying the mind and in particular enabling us to deal skillfully and peacefully with
our daily challenges.

This series will introduce us step by step to this amazing practice, which is quite simple and can be practiced by anyone.

February 23: The Benefits of Practicing Compassion -the Practice of Taking and Giving-with Deepika Bagchee
March 2: Practice Self-compassion by Taking on Our Future Suffering-with Deepika Bagchee
March 9: Practicing Universal Compassion by Transforming Adverse Conditions- with Deepika Bagchee
March 16: Healing Body and Mind-with Jessica Rispoli
March 23: How the Meditation on Giving Increases our Love-with Jessica Rispoli
March 30: Combining Taking and Giving-with Jessica Rispoli

DETAILS

Classes include Dharma teachings and guided meditations
They are suitable for both beginners and more advanced practitioners
Each class is self-contained and is also presented as part of a series over 5-6 weeks. Drop into any class you like
No special clothing is required
No pre-registration is necessary
Chairs are supplied
Everyone welcome!