Meditation & Daily Life
included in your membership
@ Worcester
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
Worcester classes resume: Monday, 1st September
📆 When:
Mondays, 1pm - 2:15pm 📍 @ The Hive, Worcester
Mondays, 7:30pm - 8:45pm 📍 @ The Hive, Worcester - Full venue details below.
👨🏫 Teacher:
These classes are included in your membership.
No need to book, just turn up.
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.
Mon 1st: 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?
Mon 8th: 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.
Mon 15th: 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.
Mon 22nd: 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.
Mon 29th: 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.
Mon 6th: No classes due to Fall Festival
Mon 13th: 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.
Mon 20th: 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.
Mon 27th: 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 Worcester class
The Worcester ‘Meditation & Daily Life’ classes are 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 Worcester class is held at The Hive public library, Sawmill Close, The Butts, Worcester WR1 3PD.
We are normally in room 5. There are lots of helpful staff - please ask for directions if you’re there for the first time.
The nearest car park is the Cattlemarket (the view in the picture here is from this car park), though it is a bit cheaper to park in Croft Road car park, just over the road. Crowngate car park is recommended if there has been sustained heavy rain, as flooding can effect the other two.