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Je Tsongkhapa Kadampa Buddhist Center
1070 Tunnel Road, Bldg 2, Unit 20
Asheville, NC 28805
(Behind Pomodoro’s and the UPS Store)
Sundays | 10:30 – 11:45am | June 28 - August 9
Drop-In Meditation Classes. Taught by Modern Buddhism Teacher Jill Cagney
Overwhelmed by your feelings? Buddhist psychology offers a time-tested, powerful and healthy approach to dealing with painful, challenging emotions. Each week, we will apply these methods to states like craving, anger, jealousy, and self-hatred. First, we need to recognize them, learn how they work, and accept ourselves for where we are, Next, we can disempower them using special meditations. Finally, we can envision and even experience a state of total freedom and release, having transcended these difficult emotions.
June 28 - The Confidence to Change
July 5 - Craving, Desire and Attachment
July 12 - Dealing with Unhappiness
July 19 - How to Worry Less
July 26 - Overcoming Loneliness
August 2 - Overcoming Grief
August 9 - Forgiving Others
Sundays | 10:30 – 11:45am | August 16 - September 13
Drop-In Meditation Classes.
Whether it’s everyday stress, sadness, or even anger, our suffering can be transformed into inner strength, love, and joy. The first step is understanding its source. In this series, we’ll explore Buddha’s teachings on the Four Noble Truths. The Four Noble Truths are the essence of Buddhist thought and gives us a clear, precise way to understand our life and how to move forward in it. Through teachings and meditation, we’ll discover that suffering comes not from external conditions, but from our own mind. Recognizing this opens the door to transforming our experience and uncovering a more lasting, genuine happiness.
August 16 - Desire
August 23 - Suffering
August 30 - Origins
September 6 - Cessations
September 13 - The Path
About the Teacher
Kadam Sharon has been practicing meditation and Kadampa Buddhism since 2003 and is the Resident teacher of the Je Tsongkhapa Kadampa Meditation Center in Asheville. Before Sharon moved to Asheville in 2011, she volunteered as the Education Program Coordinator for several years at the internationally renowned world peace temple for meditation and modern Buddhism, Kadampa Meditation Center New York. There she received teachings and guidance directly from our General Spiritual Director, Gen-la Kelsang Dekyong, guided retreats, and taught classes. She has engaged in numerous focused meditation retreats and is known for teaching others how to develop a peaceful mind with great skill, lightness, and humor. Today, Sharon is a part of the Special Teacher Training Program and teaches numerous meditation classes and retreats in Asheville, NC, Western NC, and Johnson City, TN. Sharon and her husband have one son.
Je Tsongkhapa Kadampa Meditation Center
1070 Tunnel Road, Bldg 2, Unit 20
Asheville, NC 28805
epc@meditationinasheville.org
(828) 668-2241
1070 Tunnel Road, Bldg 2, Unit 20 Asheville, NC 28805 epc@meditationinasheville.org (828) 668-2241
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