Classes Every Wednesday

with Shelley Tanner
7:00 - 8:00 pm
Broad Street Ballroom
41 Broad Street
($10)

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Improve Your Mind, Improve Your Life - Meditation on the Mind

Whether we are happy or sad depends on the state of our mind. Therefore if we wish to improve our lives we need to learn how to improve our minds. Buddha taught a powerful meditation on the mind through which we can learn to understand the nature of our mind. Through this understanding we can actualize our extraordinary spiritual potential for wisdom, compassion and joy.

April 23                   What is the Mind
April 30                   The Potential of the Mind
May 7                      Improving Concentration
May 14                    Your Life and the World

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Learning to Let Go of Bad Habits

We all have habits we consider 'bad' or unhealthy, even destructive. We don't seemingly want to do them, but do them anyway, as if we are trapped. Buddha's astounding insights into the mind gives us the tools to understand how and why we create compulsive patterns of behavior, and consequently how we can let go of them and create the meaningful and joyful life that we actually want.

May 21                  Understanding Ourselves: Why We Develop Bad Habits
May 28                  Uprooting the Psychology of Addiction
May 4                    Freedom from Compulsion
May 11                  Forgiving Yourself and Others
June 18                 Overcoming our Self-sabotaging Tendencies

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Location
Broad Street Ballroom
41 Broad Street
New York, NY 10004

Contact
212-924-6706

Subway
2/3 trains to the Wall Street station
J/M/Z trains to the Broad Street station
4/5 trains to the Bowling Green station
1 train to Rector Street station
R/W trains to Whitehall St - South Ferry station

Shelly Tanner Born in Tasmania, Australia, Shelley moved to the US in 1998 and has been in involved with the New Kadampa Tradition since 2001. In addition to teaching meditation, Shelley is the president of a marketing firm in Manhattan. Through Buddha's teachings, Shelley has been able to merge her spiritual practice with the demands of the corporate world. Shelley is now the teacher of our Wall Street branch.

Buddhist Meditation Classes near Wall Street

Based in the traditions of Kadampa Buddhism, each class is structured to include a teaching, two meditations, a group discussion, and a questions and answers session.

No special clothing is required, and pre-registration is not necessary. This class is a branch of Chakrasambara Buddhist Center in New York.