Buddha Land Kadampa Buddhist Meditation Centre

19/11/2025

This weekend, Gen Päljin inspired us at Bolton Abbey for our Weekend Meditation Retreat with practical teachings of how to live a more positive life.
On Saturday, we explored meditations that enable us to access & maintain inner peace 🕊️ and joy, even when experiencing difficulties in our lives.
On Sunday, we explored how to recognise and let go of harmful states of mind and how to replace them with more peaceful & beneficial ones.

Thank you to all who attended, and we hope to see many of you for this 🗓️ Friday’s Stop the Week: a relaxing evening with guided meditation, good company 😃 and a delicious 3-course Swiss🇨🇭 vegetarian meal 🍽️ at BuddhaLand Kadampa Buddhist Meditation Centre.

🛜 Book Online: http://enjoymeditation.org/november-stop-the-week-meal-meditation-buddha-land

Or drop by the centre to book in person with our friendly and helpful cafe staff. 🙏

November Stop the Week Swiss Evening @ Buddha Land KMC, Keighley Friday 21 November, 7.30pm – 10.00pm In-person Let go of the week’s strains and stresses with a guided meditation and enjoy a delicious, three course, vegetarian, Swiss meal, with great company. You are invited to relax at the end ...

18/11/2025

Photos from our recent Rest & Reflect Weekend residential retreat, where Gen Päljin gave us the opportunity to get away from daily stress and busyness by gaining deeper experience in our spiritual practice through the benefits of meditating on Loving Kindness.

Such a pleasure to welcome so many of you to the beautiful and inspiring Madhyamaka KMC. We hope to see you this weekend at BuddhaLand in Keighley for our Half Day course🗓️: Overcoming Stress & Anxiety, with easy to follow techniques that enable the reduction and abandonment of our unpeaceful minds.

🛜 Book Online:
https://enjoymeditation.org/overcoming-stress-and-anxiety-meditation-workshop-keighley-sun-23-november-10am/

Or drop by the centre to book in person with our friendly and helpful cafe staff. 🙏

17/11/2025

Overcoming Stress & Anxiety: Meditation Workshop @ Buddha Land KMC, Keighley

🗓️ Sunday 23 November, 10am – 1pm

In-person 🪷

Explore effective meditations and positive approaches to overcome stress and anxiety. Learn easy to follow techniques that will allow you to reduce and abandon these unpeaceful minds.

Anxiety and stress are endemic in our busy, fast-paced life. 🫨 We tend to think that situations or people in our life are the causes of our stress and unhappiness. Consequently, we waste our time and deplete our mental energy by trying to figure out how to ‘fix’ those situations or people. This usually creates even more mental busyness and stress.

Buddha taught that all our worries, anxiety and stress comes from within our own mind. More specifically, they come from our unrealistic expectations and our exaggerated views of ourself, the people around us and the world in general. By learning to identify the actual causes of our unpleasant feelings and emotions, we can begin to understand how to free our mind from them and learn to face life’s adversities with a happy, peaceful heart. 💙

😇 No previous experience is necessary— this course is perfect for anyone curious about meditation or looking to enhance their emotional well-being.

☕️ Refreshments are available in our World Peace Café during the course.

The cost of the workshop is £15 (Monthly Members £5, FP Monthly Members £0).
💳 Our monthly membership programme offers access to all our weekly classes as well as discounts on courses for only £20 per month –
https://enjoymeditation.org/monthly-membership/

🛜 Book Online:
https://enjoymeditation.org/overcoming-stress-and-anxiety-meditation-workshop-keighley-sun-23-november-10am/

16/11/2025

BE KIND TO YOURSELF (AND OTHERS)

Learn to cultivate compassion, patience and other peaceful and positive minds at our weekly meditation classes this week in Keighley, Shipley, Burley in Wharfedale, Otley, and Burnley.
This week's class is called “Accepting Yourself and Others".
Everybody welcome. No need to book, just drop in.

For more details and times and location please click here:
https://enjoymeditation.org/classes/

16/11/2025

We’ve enjoyed another weekend in the Yorkshire Dales with Gen Päljin giving inspiring teachings and guiding us in meditations on loving kindness over the two days. Thanks to everyone who attended. 💛🙏

We’ll be back at Bolton Abbey in the new year. More details to follow!

13/11/2025

Overcoming Stress & Anxiety:
Meditation Workshop @ Buddha Land KMC, Keighley

🗓️ Sunday 23 November, 10am – 1pm

In-person 🪷

Explore effective meditations and positive approaches to overcome stress and anxiety. Learn easy to follow techniques that will allow you to reduce and abandon these unpeaceful minds.

Anxiety and stress are endemic in our busy, fast-paced life. 🫨 We tend to think that situations or people in our life are the causes of our stress and unhappiness. Consequently, we waste our time and deplete our mental energy by trying to figure out how to ‘fix’ those situations or people. This usually creates even more mental busyness and stress.

Buddha taught that all our worries, anxiety and stress comes from within our own mind. More specifically, they come from our unrealistic expectations and our exaggerated views of ourself, the people around us and the world in general. By learning to identify the actual causes of our unpleasant feelings and emotions, we can begin to understand how to free our mind from them and learn to face life’s adversities with a happy, peaceful heart. 💙

😇 No previous experience is necessary— this course is perfect for anyone curious about meditation or looking to enhance their emotional well-being.

☕️ Refreshments are available in our World Peace Café during the course.

The cost of the workshop is £15 (Monthly Members £5, FP Monthly Members £0).
💳 Our monthly membership programme offers access to all our weekly classes as well as discounts on courses for only £20 per month –
https://enjoymeditation.org/monthly-membership/

🛜 Book Online:
https://enjoymeditation.org/overcoming-stress-and-anxiety-meditation-workshop-keighley-sun-23-november-10am/

12/11/2025

https://enjoymeditation.org/finding-happiness-from-within-day-retreat-bolton-abbey-sat-15-november/

12/11/2025

Finding Happiness from Within☀️:
Retreat @ Bolton Abbey Village Hall, N Yorks

🗓️ Saturday 15 November, 9.30am – 5pm

In-person 🪷

Unwind in the Yorkshire Dales in the first of our 2 days of meditation retreat at Bolton Abbey Village Hall. A day retreat is an ideal opportunity to gain a deep understanding of Buddha’s teachings and have a special experience of inner peace.

The first day of the Retreat, Finding Happiness from Within, will explore meditations that enable us to access and maintain inner peace 🕊️ & joy
☺️, even when experiencing difficulties in our life.

The second day, Letting Go and Moving On, will further explore how to recognise and let go of harmful states of mind & replace them with peaceful & beneficial ones. 🙏

“The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm & peaceful. If our mind is peaceful, we will be free from worries & mental discomfort, and so we will experience true happiness. But if our mind is not peaceful, we will find it very difficult to be happy, even if we are living in the very best conditions” (Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso). 🙏

Each day can be attended separately. If you wish to attend both days of the Retreat, there will be a £10 discount.💞

A 🥪packed lunch, ☕️ refreshments & 🚗 parking is included in the cost. There will be plenty of time in between retreat sessions, if you wish, to enjoy and relax in the surrounding countryside.🌳

🛜 Book Online:
https://enjoymeditation.org/finding-happiness-from-within-day-retreat-bolton-abbey-sat-15-november/

The cost of the day retreat is £36 (Centre Membership Scheme £26) or for both days £62 (Centre Membership Scheme £42).
💳 Our monthly membership programme offers access to all our weekly classes as well as discounts on courses for only £20 per month – https://enjoymeditation.org/monthly-membership/

09/11/2025

DROP-IN BUDDHIST MEDITATION CLASSES NEAR YOU THIS WEEK

Learn beautiful and positive meditation techniques coming from Buddhist wisdom at one of our weekly classes. All welcome, no experience necessary.

This week, in our 'Find Happiness from Within' series our meditation class is called ‘Blame Free Living’.

This class is running every week in person at our Buddha Land Centre, in Keighley on Tuesdays and Thursdays 11am and Wednesdays 2pm NEW, on Fridays 1pm & 6pm, and Saturdays at 1030am, at Burley in Wharfedale Salem Church Hall Tuesdays 11am at Otley Town Partnership Tuesdays 7pm, at Kirkgate Centre, Shipley Wednesdays 7pm, and at Burnley Kadampa Buddhist Centre Wednesdays 11am, and 7pm, and Thursdays 11am.

We also have 4 livestream classes available at other times to members.

More details about times and location here…
https://enjoymeditation.org/classes/

08/11/2025

Happiness, Success and the Law of Karma, with Gen-la Kelsang Dekyong

📍Kadampa Meditation Centre, LEEDS

In-person 🪷

🗓️ Saturday 15th November

Why are some people naturally happy and successful, while others experience problems and obstacles? Why is it that when we get what we want, we often fail to derive satisfaction from having it? Why are contentment and good fortune elusive, while difficulties arise effortlessly? How can I change this situation?

Buddha gave clear answers to all these questions in his teachings on the law of karma. At this one-day course, Gen-la will explain this universal law and how to live in accordance with it. Learn how to create good fortune and eliminate problems at their root.

🛜 Book Online:
https://www.meditationinleeds.org/event/happiness-success-karma/

06/11/2025

Finding Happiness from Within ☀️:
Retreat @ Bolton Abbey Village Hall, N Yorks

🗓️ Saturday 15 November, 9.30am – 5pm

In-person 🪷

Unwind in the Yorkshire Dales in the first of our 2 days of meditation retreat at Bolton Abbey Village Hall. A day retreat is an ideal opportunity to gain a deep understanding of Buddha’s teachings and have a special experience of inner peace.

The first day of the Retreat, Finding Happiness from Within, will explore meditations that enable us to access and maintain inner peace 🕊️ & joy
☺️, even when experiencing difficulties in our life.

The second day, Letting Go and Moving On, will further explore how to recognise and let go of harmful states of mind & replace them with peaceful & beneficial ones. 🙏

“The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm & peaceful. If our mind is peaceful, we will be free from worries & mental discomfort, and so we will experience true happiness. But if our mind is not peaceful, we will find it very difficult to be happy, even if we are living in the very best conditions” (Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso). 🙏

Each day can be attended separately. If you wish to attend both days of the Retreat, there will be a £10 discount.💞

A 🥪packed lunch, ☕️ refreshments & 🚗 parking is included in the cost. There will be plenty of time in between retreat sessions, if you wish, to enjoy and relax in the surrounding countryside.🌳

🛜 Book Online:
https://enjoymeditation.org/finding-happiness-from-within-day-retreat-bolton-abbey-sat-15-november/

The cost of the day retreat is £36 (Centre Membership Scheme £26) or for both days £62 (Centre Membership Scheme £42).
💳 Our monthly membership programme offers access to all our weekly classes as well as discounts on courses for only £20 per month – https://enjoymeditation.org/monthly-membership/

06/11/2025

🇨🇭Swiss Evening 🍽️ @ Buddha Land KMC, Keighley

🗓️ Friday 21 November, 7.30pm – 10.00pm

In-person 🪷

Let go of the week’s strains & stresses with a guided meditation and enjoy a delicious, three course, vegetarian, Swiss meal, with great company.

You are invited to relax at the end of the week at Buddha Land Kadampa Meditation Centre, Keighley.

The evening begins at 7.30pm with a guided meditation and short talk to bring inner peace and spiritual focus to the week. This can get neglected during the busyness of the week so this is a chance to readdress the balance. This is followed by dinner at our World Peace Cafe. 🕯️
Also a fantastic opportunity to meet others who are interested in meditation.

The cost of the evening is £16.50 per person.
Please book in advance using the booking link below or you can book in the World Peace Cafe.

🛜 Book Online:
https://enjoymeditation.org/november-stop-the-week-meal-meditation-buddha-land/