We are now settled into our new home at 12 York Place LS1 2DS (just 5 minutes from Leeds train station) so please do drop in and say hello! We have a great programme of retreats, visiting teachers, classes for people new to Buddhism and more in-depth study this term, as well as lunchtime secular meditation classes (and evening gong baths!) to help you relax and find more focus in daily life. 

This Saturday is the start of module 3 of the Foundation of Buddhist Thought on Buddhist Psychology In a few weeks time we welcome Ven. Mary Reavey back to Yorkshire for the Lamrim 'stages of the path' retreat (only a few places left!) and we also welcome back Don Handrick for two inspiring public talks on Practising Buddhism Minute by Minute and Conscious Ageing - Enjoying the Gifts of Growing Older. Read on for more details of these events.

And don't forget it's the Jamyang Leeds AGM this Sunday from 9.30am - all welcome!

Much love from the JBCL team. 

The Buddhist spiritual path could be summed up as an analysis of how the mind functions to create suffering and happiness, together with the methods and techniques we need to practice in order to eliminate suffering and create happiness for ourselves and others. In this module of the Foundation of Buddhist Thought you will explore the detailed explanations of the nature of the mind, positive and negative ‘mental factors’ such as love and compassion, concentration, wisdom, attachment, aversion and ignorance, and the Buddhist theory of knowledge or Valid Cognition.