Developing Mental Resilience
Sundays | 11:00am – 12:15pm | Gen Kelsang Chokyi
Why does our mind feel weak and unstable? It’s because we haven’t leveraged its strength through virtue. In this series, we will explore how based on our love for others, we can engage in the powerful meditation of taking our own and other’s suffering on through harnessing our wisdom imagination. Through engaging in this meditation, we will gain familiarity with how to develop mental resilience when faced with challenging situations.
“When we first meditate on taking and giving we cannot actually take on the suffering of others nor give them our happiness, but by imagining that we are doing so now, we are training our mind to be able to do so in the future…It is a remarkable quality of the mind that we first create objects with our imagination and then bring them into our everyday reality.” - Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche
May 3 | Love is Strong
May 10 | Creating Causes for Protection
May 17 | Compassionate Resilience
May 24 | Bringing an Effect into the Spiritual Path
May 31 | Leveraging Compassion
You don't need to be Buddhist to benefit from these practical teachings. Each class includes a relaxing breathing meditation, a teaching, a contemplative meditation, and a closing dedication. Classes can be attended individually or as a series.
The Sunday morning meditation class is taught by Gen Kelsang Chokyi and guest teachers on occasion. This series is based on the book The New Eight Steps to Happiness by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.
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About the Teacher
Gen Kelsang Chokyi is the Resident Teacher of Kadampa Meditation Centers Indianapolis and Bloomington.
As a student of Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Gen Kelsang Chokyi is a modern-day Kadampa nun. With joy, wisdom, and experience, she shows how everyone can easily integrate Buddha’s teachings into daily life. She has been a student of Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche for 20 years.
Previously, she served as Resident Teacher for Serlingpa Meditation Center in New Bedford, MA, Kadampa Meditation Center San Diego, and Atisha Kadampa Buddhist Center in Providence, RI.