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ACTUALIZE YOUR FULL POTENTIAL
“What is enlightenment? It is the inner light of wisdom that is completely free from all mistaken appearance, and whose function is to bestow mental peace upon each and every living being every day.”
- Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Long Life, Merit & Wisdom: Buddha Amitayus Retreat
Sunday, February 2nd • 1:30 - 5:30pm • $10/full retreat
Self-guided Retreat
Everyone Welcome, no experience necessary
'Amitayus' means 'Infinite Life.’ There is nothing more precious than our life. If we use our life in meaningful ways, we have the opportunity to experience every happiness, including enlightenment! Relying on Buddha Amitayus prevents untimely death, grows our wisdom and increases our positive energy or merit - bringing us closer and closer to our full potential.
Near the beginning of each New Year at Kadampa Buddhist Centers worldwide, we gather together to create special causes for World Peace by relying upon Buddha Amitayus through prayer and meditation. By engaging in this retreat, we benefit the lives of countless living beings as we increase our own wisdom, long life, and merit. Through the power of Buddha’s transformational energy, our own good heart, our prayers and mantra recitation, good results will definitely come.
Everyone is welcome. No experience necessary.
SCHEDULE:
​Session 1: 1:30-2:30pm
Break: 2:30 - 3:00pm
Session 2: 3:00 - 4:00pm
Break: 4:00 - 4:30pm
Session 3: 4:30-5:30pm
Meditations for Improving Relationships:
A Day Retreat
Saturday, February 22 • 10:30am - 5:30pm
$20 (4 Sessions)
with Resident Teacher, John Baker
Everyone Welcome, no experience necessary
Slow down and focus on Buddha’s methods for improving relationships with the people in our lives. Learn how a steady meditation practice can slowly remove the heaviness and stress that can often arise. Each retreat session will include a brief teaching, guided meditation and Q&A.
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4 Sessions:
Identifying with Our Pure Potential
The Benefits of a Loving Attitude
Removing Obstacles
Developing Compassion
SCHEDULE:
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Session 1: 10:30 - 11:30am
Session 2: 1:00 - 2:00pm
Session 3: 2:45 - 3:45pm
Session 4: 4:30 - 5:30pm
A String and a Prayer: Mala Making Course
Saturday, March 1st • 11:00am - 2:00pm • $40 (materials included)
with Kadampa Teachers, Vickie Clement & Eve Miller
Everyone Welcome, no experience necessary
Please register by February 22 so that we can prepare materials
A mala is a traditional Buddhist rosary used to recite mantras. In this course you will learn about the practice of mantra recitation and the traditional Buddhist techniques for making and using a mala. For Buddhist practitioners, a mala is very precious and meaningful. Through regular use, it becomes a very blessed and powerful object.
All materials for this course will be provided, including a selection of beads, threading and tassel materials. You will come away with a completed mala and understand how to use it to benefit yourself and others. Malas also make excellent gifts! Everyone welcome, no experience necessary.
Everyone is welcome. No experience necessary.
INTERNATIONAL & REGIONAL EVENTS
Mid-Atlantic Dharma Celebration 2025
Buddha Manjushri Empowerment and Teachings on the Protection of Wisdom
March 7 - 9 • Kadampa Meditation Center Washington DC
with Kadam Morten Clausen
Everyone Welcome
Join in with fellow meditators from throughout the Mid-Atlantic region to receive the blessing empowerment of Buddha Manjushri, listen to teachings on the protection of wisdom, and meditate and socialize together.
Wisdom is a virtuous intelligent mind that sees through the superficial veneer of things to the truth. It is a mind that aligns us with reality, thereby liberating us from ignorance, the source of all our suffering. It is like an inner teacher that we carry in our hearts and like a protector that protects us from future suffering. How can we develop this mind? By tuning in to the Buddha of Wisdom, Manjushri. When we open ourself to receiving Manjushri’s blessings, our mind is empowered to experience real insight into the truth of how things exist.
The Mid-Atlantic Dharma Celebration provides a precious opportunity to study, listen to and practice the special presentation of modern Buddhism taught by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche, the Founder of the New Kadampa Tradition.