This weekend course will be based on the practices presented in Gelong Thubten’s latest book, ‘Handbook for Hard Times - a monk’s guide to fearless living’.  

• The course runs for two days, Saturday and Sunday, and you are encouraged to attend both days.
• Each day begins promptly at 10.30am, and will end before 4pm.
• There will be regular breaks throughout the day, and our Tibetan tearoom will be selling a hot lunch on a first come basis.

Gelong Thubten will explain some of the Buddhist teachings on working with life’s challenges. Regular meditation helps us to transform our thoughts, emotions and reactions, and our experiences of suffering can become steps on the path to liberation.  

Topics will includ:

• exploring our fears and how to become more fearless, 
• establishing a daily meditation practice, 
• working with suffering, developing compassion and 
• practising forgiveness.  

We will look at how to meditate on negative emotions - to transform them - as well as how to work with pain, sickness and difficult relationships.  A key focus will be the practice of tonglen, or taking and sending, and how to bring an attitude of fearlessness to our most challenging issues and situations.  

This course is suitable for beginners as well as the more experienced, and will consist of talks, meditation instruction and sessions, as well as questions and answers.