Sunday Meditation Class

Join us at Chandrakirti this term for Sunday Meditation Classes with Monk Geshe Tharchin!

 Every Sunday (August 16th – November 22nd)
10am – 11.30am, followed by a free community lunch
Nalanda Hall (Gompa) at Chandrakirti Centre
Dana/Koha welcome
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Sunday classes are open to all, no prior experience with Buddhism required!

Children aged 6 and over are welcome to attend class or supervised childcare is available at the Main House while parents are in class. Children can be dropped off there, where a member of the Chandrakirti community will be present to care for them.

⋆ You don’t need to bring anything with you, although you’re welcome to bring a pen and notebook if you’d like to take notes.

⋆ We recommend arriving 10 minutes early to settle in before the class begins.

⋆ If you’re unable to attend in person, Sunday classes are also livestreamed on YouTube, so you can join from home

If you would like to make a donation to support this class, you are welcome to contribute to the donation box in the Gompa or make a donation through our Givealittlepage

With great kindness Geshe Jampa Tharchin will teach on the Eight Verses of Mind Training during Sunday Meditation classes.

Eight Verses of Mind Training
By Geshe Langri Tangpa

1. Determined to obtain the greatest possible benefit
   From all sentient beings,
   Who are more precious than a wish-fulfilling jewel,
   I hold them most dear at all times.

   2. Wherever I am and whoever I am with,
   I always consider myself the lowest of all
   And from the depths of my heart
   Hold others dear and supreme.

   3. In all actions, I examine my mental continuum
   And the minute a delusion arises,
   Since it endangers myself and others,
   I forcefully confront and avert it.

   4. Whenever I see sentient beings who are wicked in nature
   And overwhelmed by negative actions and heavy suffering,
   I hold such rare ones dear,
   As if I had found a precious treasure.

   5. When, out of envy, others mistreat me
   With abuse, insults, or the like,
   I accept defeat
   And offer the victory to them.

   6. When someone whom I have benefited
   And in whom I have great hopes
   Gives me terrible harm,
   I regard them as my virtuous friend.

   7. In short, both directly and indirectly,
   I offer every happiness and benefit to all my mothers.
   I secretly take upon myself
   All their harms and sufferings.

   8. Also, I do not defile all these practices
   With the stains of the superstitions of the eight worldly concerns
   And by knowing all phenomena to be illusory,
   Without trusting in them, I am freed from bondage.

This rendition of Kadampa Geshe Langri Thangpa’s Eight Verses of Thought Transformation was translated by Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Everflowing Nectar of Bodhicitta, Portland: FPMT Inc.,

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