Classes Every Thursday

with Paige Polisner
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Unitarian Church of All Souls
1157 Lexington Ave. (between 79th and 80th Streets)
($10)


Creating Happiness and Ending Bad Habits

Start off the new year with Buddha’s teachings about the secret to happiness and to creating the life you want, the law of karma. Understanding that our own thoughts and actions create our experience of the world puts us in control of our life. Rather than feeling victimized by circumstance we have the tools to comprehend why we experience the things we do and to set a new course for ourselves. Instead of passively hoping that things will turn out well, we learn to create the experience we wish to have both here and now and in the future, as well as how to methodically and confidently go about ending our bad habits. Everyone is welcome.

 
Jan 21               The Secret to Happiness
Jan 28               Steering Clear of Life’s Difficulties
Feb 4                 Creating the Life We Want
Feb 11               Cleansing our Mind of Negativity
Feb 18               A Method for Change
Feb 25               Ending Our Bad Habits

Transforming Conflict and Difficulty

Teachings and guided meditations based on Geshe Kelsang's book How to Solve Our Human Problems and Shantideva's legendary chapter on patience from Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life. Our own mind of anger creates so many problems, and our inability to let go of this painful mind keeps us stuck in conflicted situations. In this course, we will learn how to identify and reduce anger and aversion, even in their subtle and repressed forms.

	
Mar 4                Dealing with Conflict	
Mar 11              Cutting the Root of Anger	
Mar 18              The Wisdom of Acceptance	
Mar 25              Being Patient with Yourself	

Please Note: Although taught as a series, each of these classes stands on their own as a complete class. Feel free to drop in on a class-by-class basis

Classes are suitable for both beginners and more advanced meditation
practitioners, and emphasize how to meditate and practice in our urban environment.

Classes can be taken individually or as a series and are held every week unless otherwise stated, titles TBA.

No pre-registration required.

Location
at Unitarian Church of All Souls 1157 Lexington Ave (between 79th and 80th Streets)

Directions By Subway:
6 train to 77th street / F train to Lex Av/63 street

(212) 924-6706 for more information

Paige Polisner works as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker at the Lexington School for the Deaf in Queens, where she provides individual counseling for students and teaches Peace classes. She became involved in Buddhism many years ago, culminating her search for a spiritual path that could offer solutions where clinical psychology fell short. Her teachings are candid and heartfelt.

About the Buddhist Meditation Classes in the Upper East Side

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.