Course Description
Choose love. Change your inner world. Connect.
What if the most powerful intention for the new year were not to fix ourselves, but to soften? To meet life — and one another — with more love?
Much of our suffering does not arise from the world itself, but from the emotional reactions we carry within us. When anger, resentment, or fear remain unexamined, they begin to color our perception. We no longer see people as they are—our inner tensions filter every encounter, and even the ordinary can become conflict.
Love, by contrast, opens space. Where anger contracts, love softens.Where hatred separates, love reconnects us — with ourselves, with others, and with life as it is.
When loving-kindness is genuine and pure, it allows us to respond to all experiences with ease, warmth, and presence — even in difficult moments.
This course is inspired by a simple yet radical insight: the enemies we see outside often begin within.
“It is through our anger and hatred that we transform people into enemies. We generally assume that anger arises when we encounter a disagreeable person, but actually it is the anger already within us that transforms the person we meet into our imagined foe. Someone controlled by their anger lives within a paranoid view of the world, surrounded by enemies of his or her own creation. (…) Imagine what the world would be like if we all conquered our anger! The danger of war would evaporate, armies would become unnecessary, and soldiers would have to look elsewhere for work. Machine guns, tanks, and nuclear weapons – instruments useful only to the angry mind – could be put away, as all conflicts, from wars between nations to quarrels between individuals, came to an end.”
How to Solve Our Human Problems, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Topics
Thu, Jan 15 — Anger: Is it worth it?
Thu, Jan 22 — Equanimity: Staying steady
Thu, Jan 29 — Patience: The quiet strength
Thu, Feb 5 — Cherishing Others: From self-obsession to care
Thu, Feb 12 — Wishing Love: From self-centeredness to openness
Thu, Feb 19 — Kindness to All: Wishing our fellow beings well
Thu, Feb 26 — Radiating Love
Who It’s For
Join us on a meditation journey toward kindness, courage, and clarity. Start the year by choosing love over fear. This is a space to slow down and find balance amid the emotional weather of modern life — work stress, heartbreak, uncertainty, longing, and everything in between.
Everyone is welcome. Come as you are.
Stay afterwards for a cosy cup of tea and good company ♡
Teacher
Volker Knab has been into Kadampa Buddhism for 20 years now, both studying and practicing it. Meditation really helps him stay cool and balanced at work, even when things get stressful. He really cares about sharing the helpful ideas and down-to-earth tools of Kadampa Buddhism in a way that’s clear, friendly, and easy for beginners to get into.