Meditation & Daily Life
Weekly classes in Bewdley
Class details
🎟️ £7.50. Block bookings available. Refreshments included.
📆 Thursdays, 7:30pm - 8:45pm with Gen Kelsang Khechog
Term break -
📍 The Friends’ Meeting House, Lower Park, Bewdley, DY12 2DP
Watch this video showing the location if attending for the first time.
🚙 There is limited parking at the venue. Redthorne House car park and Gardeners Meadow carparks are close by.
Book your place below or simply pay on arrival
Meditation practice for daily life
Exploring how meditation practice and daily life can work together to support peace, happiness, and resilience. Each class includes clear guidance on how to meditate, with time to practise and deepen familiarity with the techniques.
Rather than seeing busyness as a barrier, you’ll learn how everyday events and challenges can become part of your path to a more peaceful, fulfilling life, using a wide range of meditations from Buddha’s teachings.
These classes help you:
- Practise simple relaxation and concentration meditations you can use straight away.
- Become more familiar with your own mental habits and patterns in daily situations.
- Build inner resilience and emotional balance through practical Buddhist wisdom.
Questions?
Upcoming Topics
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Is your meditation taking you where you want to go?
This world is full of contradictory advice on how to meditate. Our new ‘Destination: Inner Peace’ series has been carefully crafted to answer the most important questions about meditation. After following these classes, you will appreciate meditation as a personal journey that you can enjoy one step at a time, confident that a more peaceful mind is your natural destination. The series has five classes:
Thursday September 3rd
Preparing for Your Journey
What meditation is, how we can know it works, what positive mental states it can lead us to, and how to prepare for a successful inner journey.
Covered in this class:
What does it mean for meditation to be a journey, and where are we headed?
How do we know that meditation works?
How to prepare for success in meditation.
Thursday September 10th
Travelling to Your Destination
How to guide your mind gently to a peaceful state, what to do when you get distracted, and how to deal with a sleepy mind.
Covered in this class:
How to guide your mind to its object of meditation.
What to do when you get distracted.
What to do when you get tired.
Thursday September 17th
Arriving at Your Destination
What meditative concentration is, how to be confident you’ve found the right object of concentration, and how to avoid tensing up when you lose focus.
Covered in this class:
What is meditative concentration, and how is it different from straining?
How do you know when you’ve found your meditation object?
How to stay relaxed when you lose focus.
Thursday September 24th
Settling In and Enjoying Peace of Mind
How to sustain peaceful energy in your meditation moment by moment, how to relax and let the process do its thing, and how to deepen your meditative experience.
Covered in this class:
How to give peaceful energy to your meditation.
How do you know when your meditation’s working?
How to sustain and deepen your meditative experience.
Thursday October 1st
Going Native
What it means to ‘gain a realisation’ of a meditation, how to carry your meditative experience with you into daily life, and what to do when you get discouraged.
Covered in this class:
What does it mean to ‘gain a realisation’ of a meditation?
How to carry your meditative experience with you into daily life.
What to do when you get discouraged.
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Find greater happiness in your relationships without needing other people to change. Through meditations on affectionate love, cherishing love and wishing love, discover ways of seeing others that bring greater warmth and harmony, and reveal the loving mind itself as a reliable source of lasting happiness.
Thursday October 8th
Seeing the Best in People
Within every person is an extraordinary potential for goodness, love and lasting happiness. Meditation helps us learn to see it.
Covered in this class:
What affectionate love is, and how it differs from attachment or simply approving of what someone does.
The unexpected benefits of affectionate love and how it protects us.
How maintaining a warm view of others helps us act constructively when others are acting badly.
Important Notice: No class on Thursday 15 October owing to the Fall Festival.
Thursday October 22nd
The Power of Cherishing
Cherishing others is quite simply the best way to solve our own and others’ problems. Discover how to meditate on this beautiful and supremely powerful mind in this class.
Covered in this class:
What it really means to cherish someone and hold their happiness to be important.
How recognising our dependence upon the kindness of others changes the way we value them.
How learning to cherish others is possible when they do such terrible things, and how it is different from simply giving people what they want.
Thursday October 29th
May You Be Truly Happy
Wishing love is more than hoping that life goes well for someone. It sees the causes of suffering, understands how lasting happiness can be found, and recognises that every person has the potential to experience it.
Covered in this class:
What wishing love is, and how it grows from affectionate love and cherishing love.
Why the happiness we usually seek is fragile, and where pure, lasting happiness can actually be found.
How seeing people’s true potential clears away the projections that limit our love and frees us to wish wholeheartedly for their happiness.
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Step out of the narrow world of self-concern and discover the courage, freedom and connection that come from compassion. A practical six-week series for developing a bigger heart and a bigger life.
Thursday 5 November 2026
The Trouble with 'Me First'
Self-concern promises to protect us, but instead leaves us anxious, isolated and painfully preoccupied with what is happening to “me”.
Covered in this class:
How 'self-cherishing' differs from healthy self-care, self-respect and self-confidence.
Why excessive concern for “me” makes criticism, disappointment and everyday frustrations so painful.
How cherishing others gives us a more reliable source of peace, confidence and happiness.
Thursday 12 November 2026
When Someone Else Hurts
Compassion arises when another person’s suffering touches our heart - but it need not leave us sad, powerless or overwhelmed.
Covered in this class:
Exposing myths about compassion: What compassion really is and what it is not.
The causes of compassion and how to make them stronger.
How to expand our compassion beyond family and friends to include strangers and people we find difficult.
Thursday 19 November 2026
The Courage to Care
Caring deeply is not a weakness. Compassion gives us the courage to face suffering without turning away and the strength to respond with wisdom.
Covered in this class:
Why pure compassion gives us energy and peace rather than making us depressed.
How compassion protects the mind from fear, discouragement and disturbing reactions.
How developing compassion brings deep meaning to our life and increases our ability to help.
Thursday 26 November 2026
Compassion Without Overwhelm
We do not have to wait for compassion to appear by chance. Through meditation, we can learn to care deeply while keeping the mind peaceful, balanced and strong.
Covered in this class:
Why cherishing someone is the essential foundation for feeling genuine compassion for them.
How to contemplate suffering realistically without becoming despondent, distressed or overwhelmed.
How to meditate on the heartfelt wish for others to be free, until compassion becomes a stable inner experience.
Thursday 3 December 2026
Changing Places
What would change if other people’s happiness was our priority? In this class we will explore the extraordinary meditation of 'exchanging self with others', sometimes known as 'The Holy Secret'.
Covered in this class:
What exchanging self with others means - and why it does not mean losing our identity or neglecting ourselves.
How familiarity can gradually shift the main focus of our concern from ourselves to others.
How exchanging self with others offers powerful protection from suffering and brings deep, lasting happiness and joy.
Thursday 10 December 2026
When You Wish You Could Help
What can we do when someone is suffering and we cannot simply make it better? This meditation transforms the pain of feeling powerless into compassion, courage and a deepening capacity to help.
Covered in this class:
How wisdom frees compassion from feeling overwhelmed.
How to use our own difficulties to connect with others instead of becoming trapped in “Why me?”
How the 'taking' meditation uses our imagination to weaken our rigid sense of self.
Booking
These classes are included in membership
Block booking discount available
Refreshments included
Drop-in to this class or book your place here
Thursdays: 7:30pm - 8:45pm
Questions?
FIND ANSWERS HERE
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Our classes have three parts: Guided meditation Every class includes a chance to practise meditation, except discussion-only events where noted. No prior experience is necessary and all the meditations are guided. Teaching From Buddha’s teachings, these practical talks help us to solve our daily problems and find peace, happiness and, if we wish, a deeper purpose in our busy lives. Discussion A chance to discuss the topic of the talk and meditation with others during the break over refreshments. No one is ever ‘put on the spot’ and asked to talk in a class. The teacher will normally make time for questions, and will be happy to clarify any points during the class too.
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Yes. Courses cover a wide variety of topics from simple stress reduction to profound wisdom teachings, but are always taught in an accessible way such that everyone leaves with some practical insight they can use in daily life.
One exception to this is our monthly ‘Tantra’ class. Please see the Tantra class page for details.
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No. People from all backgrounds attend JLC to find peace according to their own individual needs and wishes. Everybody is welcome.
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No special clothing is needed. Our courses do not include any physical exercise and most people choose to sit on chairs, though cushions are also set out for those who prefer to sit on the floor.
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Other than removing shoes before going in to the meditation room (they can be worn as normal elsewhere) and turning phones off during session, there are no special rules to follow. People are always very pleasantly surprised with just how informal, welcoming and down to earth Jangchub Ling is; you’ll feel right at home in no time.
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Walk-ins are very welcome. You can pay on arrival (cash/card) or book online in advance. Block booking discounts are available.
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Yes. Both our membership tiers give online access to classes.