The Journey and the Guide: 8-week course
- Mon Jan 13th 2025
- 7:00 pm
- 9:30 pm
- Booking required
- £260/£210/£120
Deepen your life, deepen your meditation on this 8-week course
runs Mondays, 13th January-3rd March
Over eight weeks, we will learn the fundamentals of Buddhist practice, a journey that can lead all the way to complete liberation.
We will explore five threads of the spiritual journey and training: Integration, Positive Emotion, Spiritual Death, Spiritual Receptivity and Spiritual Rebirth. This can offer us a total transformation of our minds , so that we become a force for ourselves and those around us.
The journey begins by exploring how to gather ourselves enough through meditation and reflection so we can more fully get behind our desire to positively change. We can then cultivate our positive emotions such as courage and connectedness. From this basis, we can begin to let go of any fixed sense of ourselves and become more flexible and open to what’s new, exciting and truly meaningful. Finally, we can come to experience ourselves and the world in a completely revolutionary way.
Based on the book of the same name (included in the course) by Maitreyabandhu, prize-winning poet and experienced teacher at the London Buddhist Centre, the course mixes poetry and myth with down-to-earth instructions. You’ll learn more about the Buddhist vision and be supported week-by-week in how to systematically apply it to your life. Be prepared to notice changes in yourself!
Here’s your itinerary for this life-changing journey….
Weeks 1 & 2 Integrating all of our energy behind growth
Weeks 3 & 4 Cultivating positive emotion and robustness
Weeks 5 & 6 Letting go of a fixed sense of self
Weeks 7 & 8 Opening up to radical change
Amalavajra (r), Amlanadhi (m) and Maitrikumara (r)
Booking
The easiest way to book is online - just click the button below.
Please make sure you have read all the details of the event, have made sure you are eligible to attend (eg for 'going deeper' events) and are willing to make any commitments that are required.
Bookings are fully refundable up to 7 days in advance. After that we cannot usually offer refunds.
You can also book in person at the Centre, or by sending a cheque payable to West London Buddhist Centre along with your name, email and phone number and the name and date of the event to:
The West London Buddhist Centre,
45a Porchester Rd,
London W2 5DP
Please include your name, email and phone number with your booking.
