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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
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Advice for the New Year & Buddha of Compassion Prayers: 7 - 8pm
After-party: 8 - 9pm
Kick Off the New Year with Joy!
Tuesday, December 31st • 7-8pm with after-party until 9pm
$15 (suggested donation)
with Resident Teacher, John Baker
Everyone Welcome, no experience necessary
Ring in the New Year with a compassionate heart and a clear mind. Resident Teacher, John Baker will share Buddha's advice to inspire us to have a joyful and meaningful new year. We'll conclude with the gentle prayers of Avalokiteshvara, the Buddha of Compassion by candlelight. Stick around for an after party with sparkling cider and dessert and make us a peaceful stop on your NYE night out. Everyone Welcome, no experience necessary.
Learning to Develop Mental Peace: A Day Retreat
Sunday, January 12th • 10:30am-5pm • $25 (TTP discount applies)
with Resident Teacher, John Baker
Everyone Welcome, no experience necessary
In this day retreat practice simple techniques for developing the potential of your own mind to be peaceful. Each retreat session will include a teaching, guided meditation, and Q & A.
SCHEDULE:
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Intro: 10:30 - 11:45am
Session 1: 1:00-2:00pm
Break: 2:00 - 2:30pm
Session 2: 2:30 - 3:30pm
Break: 3:30 - 4:00pm
Session 3: 4:00-5:00pm
Developing Beneficial Views & Intentions:
A Lamrim Retreat
Saturday, January 18th & Sunday, January 19th
$30/ full retreat -or- $20/day (TTP discount applies)
with Resident Teacher, John Baker
Everyone Welcome, no experience necessary
In this two day retreat increase your experience of the foundational meditations for stable mental peace, the Stages of the Path (Lamrim in Tibetan). Each retreat session will include chanted prayers, a brief teaching, and guided meditation.
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DAY ONE
10:30 - 11:30am Meditation on the Preciousness of Our Human Life
1:00 - 2:00pm Meditation on Going for Refuge
3:00 - 4:00pm Meditation on Karma
5:00 - 6:00pm Meditation on Renunciation
DAY TWO
10:30 - 11:45am Sunday Morning Meditation on Cherishing All Living Beings
1:00 - 2:00pm Meditation on the Supreme Good Heart, Bodhichitta
3:00 - 4:00pm Training in Meditation on Emptiness
5:00 - 6:00pm Meditation on Relying on Our Spiritual Guide
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
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.
INTERNATIONAL & REGIONAL EVENTS
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The Bodhisattva's Way of Life
Buddha Maitreya Empowerment and Teachings on the Six Perfections
Dec 26th - Dec 31st • Kadampa Meditation Center New York - Glen Spey
with Gen Samten Kelsang
Everyone Welcome
“Nowadays, with the world in turmoil, there is a particular need for modern people to cultivate bodhicitta. If we are to make it through these perilous times, true Bodhisattva’s must appear in this world.” – Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche
Become a modern-day Bodhisattva, or “friend of the world”. Venerable Geshe-la always says “A good heart brings good results”. The supreme good heart is bodhicitta, which is developed and then supported through the practice of the “six perfections”: giving, moral discipline, patience, joyful effort, concentration, and wisdom. Gen Samten will be leading this experiential exploration of the six perfections by teaching from Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life.
This is an essential companion for modern meditators. In this beloved text written around 1400 years ago, the Buddhist master Shantideva elucidates the essential practices of a Bodhisattva. This ancient wisdom is just as relevant today. By learning how to combine these six perfections into our daily life, we will become confident and encouraged how to return to our normal lifestyle but in an elevated, wiser, more compassionate way.
Gen Samten will begin this course by granting the blessing empowerment of Buddha Maitreya, who is the Buddha of loving-kindness. An empowerment is a profound, blissful guided meditation that uplifts us and plants positive seeds for positivity inside our mind. These blessings perfectly complement the teachings on the six perfections, so that you can grow your good heart that is inspired by the empowerment.
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