Meditation & Daily Life
included in your membership
@ Cradley Heath
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
Classes resume: Sunday, 31st August
Included in your membership. No need to book, just turn up
📆 When:
Sundays, 7:30pm - 8:45pm 📍 @ Cradley Heath
👨🏫 Teacher:
📆 When:
Thursdays, 7:30pm - 8:45pm 📍 @ Cradley Heath
Fridays, 11am - 12:15pm 📍 @ Cradley Heath
👨🏫 Teacher: Harnack Sahota
Current & upcoming class topics
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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.
From Sun 31st Aug: 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?
From Sun 7th: 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.
From Sun 14th: 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.
From Sun 21st: 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.
From Sun 28th: Freedom from extremes
Learn eight special meditations that help us to reduce and eventually eradicate eight different aspects of our self-grasping.
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October’s classes and courses explore the nature of our mind, helping us to realise peace is closer than we think.
From Sun 5th: No classes due to Fall Festival
From Sun 12th: 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.
From Sun 19th: 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.
From Sun 26th: 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 Sunday class
The Sunday ‘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 Teacher for the Thursday and Friday classes
The Thursday and Friday ‘Meditation & Daily Life’ classes are led by Harnack Sahota.
Harnack has studied and practiced Buddhist meditation for many years. His experience of applying these methods to daily life makes his teaching relatable and effective.