About Meditation

Meditation is a method for developing inner peace by working with the mind. First we learn how to identify different positive and negative mental states, and then we apply methods for eliminating negative states and cultivating positive ones.

You don't need an excessive amount of time or experience to start meditating. All you need is a few minutes every day to settle your mind. Once you learn the basic meditation techniques, you can use these methods for 5-10 minutes every day to help you improve your life.

If we train our mind to become peaceful, we will be happy all the time, even in the most adverse conditions. But if our mind is not peaceful, even if we have the most pleasant external conditions we will not be happy. Therefore, it is important to train our mind through meditation.

Meditation reduces stress and helps you develop as a person

More and more people are finding that regular meditation helps them not only reduce stress and cope more effectively with life, but also develop their human potential and become wiser and more caring individuals.

As our mind becomes more positive, our actions become more wholesome, and our overall experience of life becomes more satisfying and beneficial to others.

Anyone can learn

Meditation is now practiced by many people throughout the modern world. Most meditation on offer today derives from the Buddhist tradition. The meditations taught at our Centre & Branches are all original Buddhist meditations. Buddhists respect all people and are happy to help anyone regardless of whether they subscribe to another faith, or to none.

Anyone can learn basic meditation and experience the benefits. Buddhism is a non-evangelical religion, philosophy, and way of life, which encourages its followers not to rely on blind faith but to check the truth of the teachings for themselves.

Guided Meditations

Whether you are a complete beginner or an experienced meditator, we think you will find a meditation class to suit you on this site. These meditation classes, guided by an experienced teacher, are a great way to learn to meditate, to improve your meditation practice, or to learn new meditation techniques.

Benefits of Meditation

These are now well-documented in various mainstream studies, and include:

• increased positive states of mind
• reduced stress, fear, and anxiety
• contentment and well-being
• improved concentration
• better relationships
• greater physical health and energy