Meditation & Daily Life

included in your membership

@ Bewdley

Discover Peace in Every Moment

This class introduces a rich variety of meditations from the Buddha’s teachings, showing how meditation and daily life can support each other to bring greater peace, happiness, and resilience.

Instead of seeing busyness as a barrier, you’ll learn how everyday challenges and routines can become part of your spiritual path—turning life itself into a powerful practice for inner calm and lasting fulfilment.

Some more benefits of this class:

  • Practice relaxation meditation.

  • Learn how to meditate according the Kadampa tradition of Buddhism.

  • Develop powerful wisdom understanding your own mind.

Class details

Next class break: No classes from Sunday, 20th July - NKT Summer Festival

Events in August at JLC

Community Project - Getting the Word Out Monday August 18th - 22nd

Blessings for a Year Friday, 22nd 7:30pm

Volunteer Day Saturday, 23rd August

Lamrim Retreat from Sunday, 24th - Thursday, 28th August

Food for Thought Sat 30th August 12pm - 1pm

Bewdley classes resume: Thursday, 4th September

📆 When:

Thursdays, 7:30pm - 8:45pm

📍 @ The Friends’ Meeting House, Bewdley

Full venue details below.

👨‍🏫 Teacher:

Gen Kelsang Khechog

This class is included in your membership. No need to book, just turn up.

Current & upcoming class topics

  • September’s classes and courses explore the illuminating mind of wisdom, the real antidote to all our troubles and the true source of lasting happiness.

    Thu 4th: The way things really are

    Buddha said that all phenomena are mere appearances to mind, totally dependent on the minds that perceive them. Their ultimate nature is emptiness. How can we understand this, and what does it mean for us?

    Thu 11th: The emptiness of our body

    When we become familiar with meditation on the emptiness of the body, our grasping at our body will be reduced, we will experience far less suffering, anxiety and frustration in relation to our body, our physical tension will diminish and our health will improve.

    Thu 18th: Mind is the nature of emptiness

    By contemplating, ‘All phenomena that appear to my mind are the nature of my mind. My mind is the nature of emptiness,’ we will eventually gain an undefiled wisdom that directly realises the emptiness of all phenomena.

    Thu 25th: How to stop grasping at I

    The object we grasp at most strongly is our self or I. By understanding and meditating on the emptiness of our I, this grasping will reduce and eventually cease altogether. Then we will be permanently free from all suffering.

    Thu 2nd Oct: Freedom from extremes

    Learn eight special meditations that help us to reduce and eventually eradicate eight different aspects of our self-grasping.

  • October’s classes and courses explore the nature of our mind, helping us to realise peace is closer than we think.

    Thu 9th: No classes due to Fall Festival

    Thu 16th: Rest Your Mind in the Experience of Emptiness

    Learn how to meditate on emptiness without obstruction, like an eagle soaring through the vast expanse of the sky with only minimal effort to maintain its flight.

    Thu 23rd: A Powerful Method to Weaken Our Self-grasping

    Learn the meaning of Buddha’s teaching in the Heart Sutra - ‘Form is not other than emptiness’ - and discover an especially powerful meditation to weaken our self-grasping.

    Thu 30th: Learning to Live Lightly

    Discover how through training in emptiness we can live in the conventional world without grasping at it, treat it lightly, and have the flexibility of mind to respond to every situation in a constructive way.

The Teacher for the Bewdley class

The Bewdley ‘Meditation & Daily Life’ class is led by our resident teacher, Gen Kelsang Khechog.

Known for his thoughtful nature, Gen Khechog presents Buddha’s teachings with relatable clarity, showing how to connect these beautiful meditations with the realities of modern daily life.

The venue

The Bewdley class is held at The Bewdley Friends Meeting House, Lower Park, Bewdley, DY12 2DP.

There is limited parking at the venue (we normally block each other in and work it out at the end of the night)! Redthorne House and Gardner’s Meadow carparks are very close and inexpensive.

Not been before? Please watch the short video below on how to get to the venue.

Questions?