Meditation Class

	January 2025
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			1 Silent Retreat Silent Retreat January 1, 2025 11:00 am - 4:15 pm Start your year off right! Give yourself the treat of developing mental peace and relaxation to fortify yourself for the New Year. Refresh your body and your mind with a day of silence. Settle in with the first meditation, then enjoy a healthy vegetarian lunch followed by two more nurturing meditations. Participants will remain silent, while the retreat teacher will guide the meditations and give practical instructions on how to nourish our mind and body in each of the 3 sessions. Schedule of sessions (silent): 11am-12pm, lunch, 1:15-2:15pm, 3-4:15pm Wednesday Meditation Class Wednesday Meditation Class January 1, 2025 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Wednesday Meditation Class 11am - 12:15pm \| More information In person Taught by Anika Trancik Resident Teacher at AKBC. Her teachings are heartfelt, practical, and presented with warmth and humor. Classes include guided meditation and a talk based on practical wisdom for daily life. No experience needed. Everyone welcome. $10 \| $5 Seniors and Students \| Free for Members • •	2 Lunchtime Meditation Lunchtime Meditation January 2, 2025 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm Lunchtime Meditation In person Taught by Kadampa Buddhist Teacher, Nancy Littell Take 30 minutes to refresh and energize your mind Everyone is welcome. $5/seniors & students/ Free to members Open Hours: Drop-in and learn about our Center Open Hours: Drop-in and learn about our Center January 2, 2025 1:45 pm - 5:15 pm Wishfulfilling Jewel Chanted Meditation Wishfulfilling Jewel Chanted Meditation January 2, 2025 5:15 pm - 6:15 pm Worcester Meditation Class Worcester Meditation Class January 2, 2025 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Worcester Meditation Class Thursdays, 6:30-8:00pm INFO Worcester Friends Meeting House 901 Pleasant Street, Worcester, MA 01602 Classes include guided meditation, a talk, and Q&A. No experience needed. Everybody welcome. • • • •	3 Little Compton Branch Class Little Compton Branch Class January 3, 2025 9:00 am - 10:00 am For more information about the Little Compton class, Visit the link here •	4
5 Kids & Family Meditation Class Kids & Family Meditation Class January 5, 2025 9:30 am - 10:30 am Meditation is for everyone. Our family meditation class offers an easy introduction to Buddha’s teachings, emphasizing loving-kindness, respect for others, and keeping a positive attitude. This class helps children and parents learn together to develop harmony, confidence, and methods to calm their minds and be happy. These classes are designed for children in Kindergarten through 5th grade. Children who are older are welcome to attend as mentors. A parent or guardian must accompany children. More Information Mini Retreat: New Year, New Habits Mini Retreat: New Year, New Habits January 5, 2025 11:00 am - 2:00 pm Mini Retreat: New Year, New Habits This retreat is perfect for those who want to try a retreat for the first time. Of course if you are already experienced in retreat you will benefit as well. Each session will focus on how to create "spark" behind our intentions so that we are successful in creating new habits. There will be two session times: 11 - 12:15pm & 1 -2pm (bring your own lunch) Sunday Meditation Class Sunday Meditation Class January 5, 2025 11:00 am - 12:15 pm Sunday Morning Meditation Class 11am - 12:15pm \| More information In person Taught by Anika Trancik Resident Teacher at AKBC. Her teachings are heartfelt, practical, and presented with warmth and humor. Classes include guided meditation and a talk based on practical wisdom for daily life. No experience needed. Everyone welcome. $10 \| $5 Seniors and Students \| Free for Members • • •	6 Lunchtime Meditation Lunchtime Meditation January 6, 2025 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm Lunchtime Meditation 12:15 - 1pm \| More Information In person Taught by Susan Dearing, senior Kadampa Buddhist Teacher at AKBC Take 30 minutes to refresh and energize your mind Everyone is welcome. $5/seniors & students/ free to members Monday Foundation Program Monday Foundation Program January 6, 2025 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Enrolled Students Only More Information • •	7	8 Green Tara Chanted Prayers Green Tara Chanted Prayers January 8, 2025 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Arya Tara is a female enlightened Buddha who is the embodiment of quick spiritual wisdom. Her name means “Liberator” or “Rescuer” and those who develop a strong connection to Arya Tara and rely upon her sincerely will always be under the loving care of a powerful ally and spiritual friend. Like a mother, she swiftly protects us from all internal and external dangers, and guides us along the spiritual path. Wednesday Meditation Class Wednesday Meditation Class January 8, 2025 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Wednesday Meditation Class 11am - 12:15pm \| More information In person Taught by Anika Trancik Resident Teacher at AKBC. Her teachings are heartfelt, practical, and presented with warmth and humor. Classes include guided meditation and a talk based on practical wisdom for daily life. No experience needed. Everyone welcome. $10 \| $5 Seniors and Students \| Free for Members • •	9 Lunchtime Meditation Lunchtime Meditation January 9, 2025 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm Lunchtime Meditation In person Taught by Kadampa Buddhist Teacher, Nancy Littell Take 30 minutes to refresh and energize your mind Everyone is welcome. $5/seniors & students/ Free to members Open Hours: Drop-in and learn about our Center Open Hours: Drop-in and learn about our Center January 9, 2025 1:45 pm - 5:15 pm Wishfulfilling Jewel Chanted Meditation Wishfulfilling Jewel Chanted Meditation January 9, 2025 5:15 pm - 6:15 pm Worcester Meditation Class Worcester Meditation Class January 9, 2025 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Worcester Meditation Class Thursdays, 6:30-8:00pm INFO Worcester Friends Meeting House 901 Pleasant Street, Worcester, MA 01602 Classes include guided meditation, a talk, and Q&A. No experience needed. Everybody welcome. • • • •	10 Little Compton Branch Class Little Compton Branch Class January 10, 2025 9:00 am - 10:00 am For more information about the Little Compton class, Visit the link here Chanted Prayers: Offering to the Spiritual Guide (OSG) Chanted Prayers: Offering to the Spiritual Guide (OSG) January 10, 2025 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm This is a special Guru Yoga of Je Tsongkhapa in conjunction with Highest Yoga Tantra that is a preliminary practice for Vajrayana Mahamudra. The main practice is relying upon our Spiritual Guide as a Buddha and making praises and requests, but it also includes all the essential practices of the stages of the path and training the mind, as well as both the generation stage and completion stage of Highest Yoga Tantra. By relying upon Je Tsongkhapa our compassion, wisdom, and spiritual power naturally increase. We engage in Offering to the Spiritual Guide prayers on the 10th and 25th of every month. Participants are welcome to bring a vegetarian food offering. Friday Night Lecture: Power of Imagination Friday Night Lecture: Power of Imagination January 10, 2025 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm The mind is full of creative power. In fact, each day our mind creates a multitude of realities, emotions, and experiences. Sometimes these bring a sense of joy and freedom however, they often can be limiting and disruptive or even painful. Through a special type of meditation called Creative Yoga we can learn to see beyond the limitations of our ordinary thinking into the extraordinary possibilities for our life. This retreat will teach us how to use visualization and imagination to awaken and channel our creative energy into greater peace and happiness, and eventually to the perfection of our human qualities. • • •	11 Making Your Highest Yoga Tantra Practice Come Alive Making Your Highest Yoga Tantra Practice Come Alive January 11, 2025 10:00 am - 2:45 pm The meditation practice of Vajrayogini engages us with our limitless potential. It offers simple and profound practices to use both on and off the meditation cushion. These meditations that take us to the heart of Buddha’s teachings on Highest Yoga Tantra. During this special workshop Anika Trancik will guide us through: Visualization and meditations on the generation stage practice of Vajrayogini. How to rely on the Yoga of sleeping, eating, and experiencing nectar in our daily life. **Note: This event is open to those who have received an empowerment of Vajrayogini or who have a sincere wish receive an empowerment as soon as they can. Session 1 10 - 1115am Session 2 1130 - 1230pm (Bring your own lunch or join the community at one of the neighborhood restaurants.) Session 3 145 - 245pm •
12 Sunday Meditation Class Sunday Meditation Class January 12, 2025 11:00 am - 12:15 pm Sunday Morning Meditation Class 11am - 12:15pm \| More information In person Taught by Anika Trancik Resident Teacher at AKBC. Her teachings are heartfelt, practical, and presented with warmth and humor. Classes include guided meditation and a talk based on practical wisdom for daily life. No experience needed. Everyone welcome. $10 \| $5 Seniors and Students \| Free for Members Chanted Prayers for the Deceased: Powa Chanted Prayers for the Deceased: Powa January 12, 2025 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Powa means “transference of consciousness” and this traditional prayer ceremony is done on behalf of those who have recently died. Through doing Powa Ceremony prayers with faith, compassion and concentration we can transfer the consciousness of those who are in the death process or recently deceased to a fortunate higher rebirth or to the Pure Land of a Buddha, where they will attain permanent liberation from suffering and experience pure and everlasting happiness. To add a recently deceased loved one to the powa dedications list click here (scroll to end of the page). • •	13 Lunchtime Meditation Lunchtime Meditation January 13, 2025 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm Lunchtime Meditation 12:15 - 1pm \| More Information In person Taught by Susan Dearing, senior Kadampa Buddhist Teacher at AKBC Take 30 minutes to refresh and energize your mind Everyone is welcome. $5/seniors & students/ free to members Monday Foundation Program Monday Foundation Program January 13, 2025 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Enrolled Students Only More Information • •	14	15 Chanted Prayers: Heart Jewel Chanted Prayers: Heart Jewel January 15, 2025 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Wednesday Meditation Class Wednesday Meditation Class January 15, 2025 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Wednesday Meditation Class 11am - 12:15pm \| More information In person Taught by Anika Trancik Resident Teacher at AKBC. Her teachings are heartfelt, practical, and presented with warmth and humor. Classes include guided meditation and a talk based on practical wisdom for daily life. No experience needed. Everyone welcome. $10 \| $5 Seniors and Students \| Free for Members • •	16 Lunchtime Meditation Lunchtime Meditation January 16, 2025 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm Lunchtime Meditation In person Taught by Kadampa Buddhist Teacher, Nancy Littell Take 30 minutes to refresh and energize your mind Everyone is welcome. $5/seniors & students/ Free to members Open Hours: Drop-in and learn about our Center Open Hours: Drop-in and learn about our Center January 16, 2025 1:45 pm - 5:15 pm Wishfulfilling Jewel Chanted Meditation Wishfulfilling Jewel Chanted Meditation January 16, 2025 5:15 pm - 6:15 pm Worcester Meditation Class Worcester Meditation Class January 16, 2025 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Worcester Meditation Class Thursdays, 6:30-8:00pm INFO Worcester Friends Meeting House 901 Pleasant Street, Worcester, MA 01602 Classes include guided meditation, a talk, and Q&A. No experience needed. Everybody welcome. • • • •	17 Little Compton Branch Class Little Compton Branch Class January 17, 2025 9:00 am - 10:00 am For more information about the Little Compton class, Visit the link here •	18
19 Kids & Family Meditation Class Kids & Family Meditation Class January 19, 2025 9:30 am - 10:30 am Meditation is for everyone. Our family meditation class offers an easy introduction to Buddha’s teachings, emphasizing loving-kindness, respect for others, and keeping a positive attitude. This class helps children and parents learn together to develop harmony, confidence, and methods to calm their minds and be happy. These classes are designed for children in Kindergarten through 5th grade. Children who are older are welcome to attend as mentors. A parent or guardian must accompany children. More Information Sunday Meditation Class Sunday Meditation Class January 19, 2025 11:00 am - 12:15 pm Sunday Morning Meditation Class 11am - 12:15pm \| More information In person Taught by Anika Trancik Resident Teacher at AKBC. Her teachings are heartfelt, practical, and presented with warmth and humor. Classes include guided meditation and a talk based on practical wisdom for daily life. No experience needed. Everyone welcome. $10 \| $5 Seniors and Students \| Free for Members Chanted Prayers: Quick Path to Great Bliss Chanted Prayers: Quick Path to Great Bliss January 19, 2025 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm This extensive self-generation practice of Vajrayogini is a translation of the sadhana—ritual prayers for spiritual attainments—composed by Je Phabongkhapa. By relying on this practice sincerely, with a good heart and a mind of faith, it is definitely possible to attain full enlightenment; but to accomplish such results we must practice this sadhana regularly. To practice the sadhana successfully we should first receive the empowerment of Vajrayogini (Highest Yoga Tantra), and then study authentic instructions on the practice such as those found in the commentary New Guide to Dakini Land. Lamrim Retreat: What do we wish for and where do these wishes take us? Lamrim Retreat: What do we wish for and where do these wishes take us? January 19, 2025 3:30 pm - January 20, 2025 3:30 pm In this retreat we will explore five new wishes that come from wisdom and create the mental pathway for us to experience a life that is permanently free from problems and suffering. This pathway is called Lamrim and is the heart of Kadampa Buddhism. Everyone can benefit from developing these new ways of thinking and because they arise from wisdom, they always lead to happiness! The meditations will be from the meditation section of the text: How To Understand The Mind by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. You can attend any number of sessions on a drop-in basis or attend all 5 to immerse yourself in the retreat experience. Sunday 1/19 Session 1 330 - 430pm - To take the real meaning of human life and not to waste it Session 2 445 - 545pm - To make progress on my spiritual path Monday 1/20 Session 3 1030 - 1145am - Be protected from future danger Session 4 1215 - 1pm - Building the basic foundation for lasting happiness Session 5 215 - 330pm - Thinking clearly about my spiritual path • • • •	20 Lamrim Retreat: What do we wish for and where do these wishes take us? Lamrim Retreat: What do we wish for and where do these wishes take us? January 19, 2025 3:30 pm - January 20, 2025 3:30 pm In this retreat we will explore five new wishes that come from wisdom and create the mental pathway for us to experience a life that is permanently free from problems and suffering. This pathway is called Lamrim and is the heart of Kadampa Buddhism. Everyone can benefit from developing these new ways of thinking and because they arise from wisdom, they always lead to happiness! The meditations will be from the meditation section of the text: How To Understand The Mind by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. You can attend any number of sessions on a drop-in basis or attend all 5 to immerse yourself in the retreat experience. Sunday 1/19 Session 1 330 - 430pm - To take the real meaning of human life and not to waste it Session 2 445 - 545pm - To make progress on my spiritual path Monday 1/20 Session 3 1030 - 1145am - Be protected from future danger Session 4 1215 - 1pm - Building the basic foundation for lasting happiness Session 5 215 - 330pm - Thinking clearly about my spiritual path Lunchtime Meditation Lunchtime Meditation January 20, 2025 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm Lunchtime Meditation 12:15 - 1pm \| More Information In person Taught by Susan Dearing, senior Kadampa Buddhist Teacher at AKBC Take 30 minutes to refresh and energize your mind Everyone is welcome. $5/seniors & students/ free to members Monday Foundation Program Monday Foundation Program January 20, 2025 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Enrolled Students Only More Information • • •	21	22 Chanted Prayers: Heart Jewel Chanted Prayers: Heart Jewel January 22, 2025 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Wednesday Meditation Class Wednesday Meditation Class January 22, 2025 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Wednesday Meditation Class 11am - 12:15pm \| More information In person Taught by Anika Trancik Resident Teacher at AKBC. Her teachings are heartfelt, practical, and presented with warmth and humor. Classes include guided meditation and a talk based on practical wisdom for daily life. No experience needed. Everyone welcome. $10 \| $5 Seniors and Students \| Free for Members • •	23 Lunchtime Meditation Lunchtime Meditation January 23, 2025 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm Lunchtime Meditation In person Taught by Kadampa Buddhist Teacher, Nancy Littell Take 30 minutes to refresh and energize your mind Everyone is welcome. $5/seniors & students/ Free to members Wishfulfilling Jewel Chanted Meditation Wishfulfilling Jewel Chanted Meditation January 23, 2025 5:15 pm - 6:15 pm Worcester Meditation Class Worcester Meditation Class January 23, 2025 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Worcester Meditation Class Thursdays, 6:30-8:00pm INFO Worcester Friends Meeting House 901 Pleasant Street, Worcester, MA 01602 Classes include guided meditation, a talk, and Q&A. No experience needed. Everybody welcome. • • •	24 Little Compton Branch Class Little Compton Branch Class January 24, 2025 9:00 am - 10:00 am For more information about the Little Compton class, Visit the link here •	25 Save the Date: Yoga of Buddha Heruka Event Save the Date: Yoga of Buddha Heruka Event January 25, 2025 •
26 Sunday Meditation Class Sunday Meditation Class January 26, 2025 11:00 am - 12:15 pm Sunday Morning Meditation Class 11am - 12:15pm \| More information In person Taught by Anika Trancik Resident Teacher at AKBC. Her teachings are heartfelt, practical, and presented with warmth and humor. Classes include guided meditation and a talk based on practical wisdom for daily life. No experience needed. Everyone welcome. $10 \| $5 Seniors and Students \| Free for Members •	27 Lunchtime Meditation Lunchtime Meditation January 27, 2025 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm Lunchtime Meditation 12:15 - 1pm \| More Information In person Taught by Susan Dearing, senior Kadampa Buddhist Teacher at AKBC Take 30 minutes to refresh and energize your mind Everyone is welcome. $5/seniors & students/ free to members Monday Foundation Program Monday Foundation Program January 27, 2025 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Enrolled Students Only More Information • •	28	29 Chanted Prayers: Heart Jewel Chanted Prayers: Heart Jewel January 29, 2025 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Wednesday Meditation Class Wednesday Meditation Class January 29, 2025 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Wednesday Meditation Class 11am - 12:15pm \| More information In person Taught by Anika Trancik Resident Teacher at AKBC. Her teachings are heartfelt, practical, and presented with warmth and humor. Classes include guided meditation and a talk based on practical wisdom for daily life. No experience needed. Everyone welcome. $10 \| $5 Seniors and Students \| Free for Members • •	30 Lunchtime Meditation Lunchtime Meditation January 30, 2025 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm Lunchtime Meditation In person Taught by Kadampa Buddhist Teacher, Nancy Littell Take 30 minutes to refresh and energize your mind Everyone is welcome. $5/seniors & students/ Free to members Open Hours: Drop-in and learn about our Center Open Hours: Drop-in and learn about our Center January 30, 2025 1:45 pm - 5:15 pm Wishfulfilling Jewel Chanted Meditation Wishfulfilling Jewel Chanted Meditation January 30, 2025 5:15 pm - 6:15 pm Worcester Meditation Class Worcester Meditation Class January 30, 2025 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Worcester Meditation Class Thursdays, 6:30-8:00pm INFO Worcester Friends Meeting House 901 Pleasant Street, Worcester, MA 01602 Classes include guided meditation, a talk, and Q&A. No experience needed. Everybody welcome. • • • •	31 Little Compton Branch Class Little Compton Branch Class January 31, 2025 9:00 am - 10:00 am For more information about the Little Compton class, Visit the link here •

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