7am weekday meditations

When - 7am to 7:20am / Monday to Friday / Online only

Upcoming term breaks - Thursday 21st to Friday 29th May

How to join - Online classes are part of centre membership. Find out how to join these and other online classes here.

What happens in a session?

We spend 15 minutes enjoying a guided meditation from the ‘Living Meditation’ series (see below). We use the same meditation Monday to Friday to help us gain familiarity and comfort with each one.

The last five minutes are spent reflecting quietly on a few words from Buddha’s teachings, chosen to be universally applicable and relevant to modern life. This ‘thought for the day’ helps to orient our mind towards a positive outlook with which we can meet the rest of our day. You can read the current week’s contemplations below.

A perfect complement to our Introduction to Meditation classes

Our 7am sessions follow the same meditation used in that week’s Introduction to Meditation class.

There are nine meditations in total, a new one each week, carefully structured to help beginners and experienced meditators alike build deep personal experience.

These meditations are available from Tharpa Publications, allowing them to be enjoyed in your own time too. Click on the images below to find out more.

This Week’s Contemplations

  • “Everyone who contributes in any way towards our happiness and well-being is deserving of our gratitude and respect. If we had to give back everything that others have given us, we would have nothing left at all.”
    - Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
    ‍ ‍ ‘The New Eight Steps to Happiness’

  • “Everything we have and everything we enjoy, including our very life, is due to the kindness of others. In fact, every happiness there is in the world arises as a result of others’ kindness.”
    ‍ ‍ - Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
    ‍ ‍ ‘The New Eight Steps to Happiness’

  • “Our sense that we are an island, an independent, self-sufficient individual, bears no relation to reality. It is closer to the truth to picture ourself as a cell in the vast body of life, distinct yet intimately bound up with all living beings.”
    - Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
    ‍ ‍ ‘The New Eight Steps to Happiness’

  • No Session because of Kadampa Spring Festival.

  • No Session because of Kadampa Spring Festival.