The Way of Metta: The Radical Power of Kindness
Five Week Course
Starts Thursday 16th July 2026, 7.30pm – 9.45pm
Led by Vajrashura and Prajnamayi
“The way of metta is not only a path of ever-increasing positive emotion leading to Enlightenment. It is a guide to recovering our basic human inheritance of joy” – Sangharakshita
The Buddha is renowned as the embodiment of wisdom and love. He also represents the fullest flowering of human potential.
On this course we’ll be studying the Buddha’s words on metta – loving-kindness – and how they point out a path to realise this potential. We’ll be putting his teachings into practice starting with identifying more skillful ways of living; cultivating a vigorous imaginative identification with others; and freeing our mind through the development of wisdom.
The course will include an introduction to the metta-bhavana (development of loving-kindness meditation) and is suitable for newcomers as well as people who wish to intensify their practice and glean new insights.
The course is based upon Sangharakshita’s book Living With Kindness and you will be provided with a copy of the book as part of the course. You will receive the book on the first night of the course.
Over the five weeks we will cover:
When
Starts Thursday 16th July 2026, 7.30pm – 9.45pm | For 5 weeks
Where
Dublin Buddhist Centre
Unit 5, Liberty Corner
James Joyce Street
Dublin, D01 N5H6
Vajrashura learned to meditate in 1999 in the Dublin Buddhist Centre while in college studying physics and mathematics.
He has been working in the Dublin Buddhist Centre since 2003 and was ordained in 2007. He leads many courses, retreats, and events each year, and is concerned with helping people go more deeply into meditation and Buddhism.
Prajnamayi was ordained in 2017 and has been meditating for many years. She is also trained in yoga, reiki and stress management.
Suitable for:
Cost
We do tiered pricing, depending on the circumstances.
€150 waged
€120 low-waged
€90 unwaged
€75 for under-25s
A €50 deposit per person of this payment is non-refundable under all circumstances.
If you wish to cancel or transfer a booking, please notify us as soon as possible on info@dublinbuddhistcentre.org
Cancellation
- If you wish to cancel your place seven days prior to the event starting, a full refund minus the deposit will be offered.
- If cancellation occurs within seven days of the event starting no refund will be available.
Transfers
- It may be possible to transfer your place to another event if we are given sufficient notice (at least four days before the event is due to start) and there are places available on the alternative event.
- If the event you wish to transfer to costs more than your original booking you will need to pay the difference at the time of transferring in order to secure your place.
- We will refund the difference if the event you wish to transfer to costs less than the original booking.
- We will only transfer a booking once and no transfer will be possible once an event has started.