Tuesday 7-8.15pm | Meditations for a Happy Life with Kadam Lucy | London World Peace Temple

Teacher

Kadam Lucy James is the Resident Teacher of KMC London. She is a senior teacher of Kadampa Buddhism, has taught extensively in the UK and USA, and helped set up many thriving meditation centres since 1981. She is a leading expert in meditation and is regularly invited to teach courses around the Europe and the United States. For many years, one of her main jobs was to help with the editing and production of Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso’s books, and she has engaged in extensive meditation retreat.

Next Series:

Let It Go: Freedom from Anxiety

Three Week Course Starting 5 May

Come along to this course to discover how to cope with life’s many challenges without panicking and find refuge in the natural peace already within your mind.

Whether occasional or regular, anxiety can feel overwhelming – like our thoughts are running the show and we’re stuck in cycles of worry. But we can use Buddha’s wisdom to understand that both our problems and the thoughts that fuel them are constantly changing and unfixed, so we don’t need to remain stuck. Our anxious thoughts don’t have to define us or control us—we can learn simple effective methods to let them simply arise and pass, breaking free

Week 1 – May 5: The vicious cycle of anxiety—and how to step out of it
Week 2 – May 12: How to access the peace within
Week 3 – May 19: Letting thoughts come and go without fear

Keys to freedom: The three principal aspects of the path to enlightenment

Four Week Course Starting 2 June

What if deep and lasting happiness depended less on changing our circumstances than on changing our minds? And what if methods existed to do just that?

In this 4-week course, discover the 3 essential components of the Buddhist path: freeing yourself from stress and dissatisfaction, opening your heart to others, and seeing reality as it is. Through practical teachings and guided meditations, you’ll learn the basics for letting go of inner struggles, cultivating genuine loving-kindness, and developing a wisdom that leads to lasting peace.

Everybody welcome!

Week 1 – June 2: How to meditate
Week 2 – June 9: Renunciation: real self-love
Week 3 – June 16: Bodhichitta: the heart of compassion
Week 4 – June 23: Wisdom: seeing reality clearly

How to think big

Four Week Course Starting 30 June

Buddha taught both Sutra and Tantra to show us how we could transform all our experiences, good and bad, from the inside out, and how to use imagination, wisdom, and bliss to accelerate our spiritual growth. On this four-week series, you’ll discover how to:

Reimagine yourself as your highest potential—here and now
Transform everyday enjoyments into fuel for inner development
Deepen your compassion and confidence on the path to enlightenment
Understand how your mind creates your world—and how to purify it
Through guided meditations and practical teachings, each week will give you an empowering insight: you are probably closer to enlightenment than you think.

This course is suitable for all levels—whether you’re new to Buddhism or ready to deepen your practice—and offers a rare glimpse into the joyful, creative path of Tantra as a fast track to lasting inner change.

Week 1 – June 30: How to use enjoyments as spiritual fuel
Week 2 – July 7: How our mind creates our world
Week 3 – July 14: How to break through our self-limitations
Week 4 – July 21: How to become the person we want to be