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UNLOCK YOUR POTENTIAL FOR LASTING INNER PEACE
Unlock Your Potential for Lasting Inner Peace
Unlock Your Potential for Lasting Inner Peace
Unlock Your Potential for Lasting Inner Peace
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KADAMPA MEDITATION CENTER
Events
We offer many special events throughout the year. Check back often to see what's coming up!
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Offering Our Faith | A Meditation Retreat
with Gen Kelsang Chogyop
Thursday, June 4
Time: 12 noon – 6:30 pm
Everyone welcome.
$8 (for 'Intro Talk' | Sessions are free)
50% discount for Tier 1 & 2 members
Free for Tier 3 & 4 members
On June 4, 'Turning the Wheel of Dharma Day', we will celebrate the birthday of Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche. Every day we remember the extraordinary kindness of Venerable Geshe-la, our Root Guru and Founder of the New Kadampa Tradition, but on this auspicious day, with minds of rejoicing and gratitude, we will offer him our faith through using the special prayer 'Request to the Holy Spiritual Guide', Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso from his Faithful Disciples' and collecting our Guru’s name mantra in a one-day retreat.
There will be two sessions of self-guided retreat using the sadhana, The Hundreds of Deities of the Joyful Land According to Highest Yoga Tantra and Request to the Holy Spiritual Guide Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche from his Faithful Disciples. We will conclude the retreat with Offering to the Spiritual Guide.
Schedule
12 – 12:30 pm • Introduction to the Retreat
1 – 2:15 pm • Session 1
3 – 4:15 pm • Session 2
5 – 6:30 pm • 'Offering to the Spiritual Guide' chanted prayers
Transforming Sorrow
with Sarah Paden
Saturday, June 13
Time: 10 am – 12 pm
Everyone welcome.
$20
50% discount for Tier 1 & 2 members
Free for Tier 3 & 4 members
Loss is universal, a true suffering. We call this type of suffering grief. But if we look deeply we find that the suffering comes not from loss itself but the negative mind of desirous attachment.
While attachment causes us pain, love — including our love for the departed — brings only peace. We’ll explore in this class the nature of attachment and ways of diminishing it, alongside the healing potential of love.
Schedule
10 – 10:45 am • Session 1
10:45 – 11:15 am • Tea Break
11:15 am – 12 pm • Session 2
TTP RETREAT
Guru Yoga and Mandala Offering Retreat 2026
with Gen Kelsang Chogyop
Saturday & Sunday, June 20 – 21
Time: 10 am – 12 pm
Everyone welcome.
$5/session
50% discount for Tier 1 & 2 members
Free for Tier 3 & 4 members
The Guru Yoga and Mandala Offering retreat combines two of the Four Great Preliminary Guides that we need to practice if we want to gain Mahamudra realizations – the quick path to Enlightenment. Spiritual realizations depend upon creating specific inner conditions, such as purifying negativity, accumulating merit, and receiving blessings.
In this retreat we focus on the preliminary practices of accumulating merit and receiving blessings. Making mandala offerings is the gateway to accumulating the collection of merit and attaining an enlightened Pure Land. Guru Yoga is the gateway to receiving powerful blessings from the Buddhas of the Ten Directions through our Spiritual Guide. The practice is accomplished within the sadhana Offering to the Spiritual Guide.
You can prepare for this retreat by reviewing the instructions on making mandala offerings found in 'The New Guide to Dakini Land' (pg.97-102).
To prepare for the practice of Guru Yoga we recommend you read 'Joyful Path of Good Fortune' (pg. 113-142) and 'The Oral Instructions of the Mahamudra' (pg.21-27).
Note: Retreat sessions will be unguided.
Schedule
Saturday - 6/20/26
Introduction • 10:00 – 11:15 am
Session 1 • 11:30 am – 1 pm
Session 2 • 2 – 3:30 pm
Sunday - 6/21/26
Session 3 • 8:30 – 10 am
'Eight Meditations for Happiness' • 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Session 4 • 12:30 – 2 pm
Becoming a Friend of the World
with Rob Kelly
Saturday, June 27
Time: 10 – 11:15 am
Everyone welcome.
$12
50% discount for Tier 1 & 2 members
Free for Tier 3 & 4 members
The path to creating the most meaningful and joyful life does not have to involve making external changes in job or lifestyle. It simply involves making a shift in our intention. In this series, we will understand how, through deepening our connection with positive intentions, we can improve our life, as well as bring peace and happiness to others.
Buddha taught that by developing six specific states of mind, we can transform every facet of our life, our job, our relationships and so on, into opportunities to truly be a friend of the world. Through teaching and guided meditation, we will create extraordinary possibilities for living the very best life, for both ourselves and others.
Prayers & Pastries:
A Monthly Community Event
Sunday, June 28
Time: 12 – 1 pm
Everyone welcome.
$5/ suggested
Monthly we will be offering a time for us to gather as a community! A time of reflection & connection.
New to meditation? Just want to see our center? Perfect!The last Sunday of each month, after our 'Eight Meditations for Happiness' class, all are welcome to gather for some some social time together.
Light snacks, sweet treats, teas & coffee will be served. Let's sprinkle in a little joy for good measure! Join Us!
