How to Rely on a Spiritual Guide Daycourse

Reliance upon a Spiritual Guide is said to be the root of the spiritual path.Ā  This experience empowers our mind with vision, hope and abundant positive energy.Ā  Join us for this Saturday's morning workshop, about developing and understanding what How to Rely on a Spiritual GuideĀ is about.

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Offering Our Faith Retreat

Every year on this day Kadampa Centers around the world engage in this special retreat using the prayer Request to the Holy Spiritual Guide Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso from his Faithful Disciples and reciting our Guruā€™s name mantra. Everyone is welcome.

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Self-Care Saturday: Calm, Still Me

By practicing meditation patiently over time, you will discover that it is possible to experience inner peace and contentment just by controlling the mind, without having to depend upon external conditions. Please join us in this course to learn how to make the mind calm and peaceful.

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General Program/ Drop-in Classes

Monday Evening ClassĀ Series with Kadam Trina - Heal Your Mind, Heal Your Life

Join these drop-in classes to gain authentic experience in the healing power of meditation as taught by Buddha. We will explore how to practically apply the teachings of the book Modern Buddhism, written by the renowned Buddhist Master Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche, so that we can find real inner peace and healing.

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Meditations For World Peace

Generate authentic hope and happiness every Sunday morning at Kadampa Meditation Center Washington! Join us for our classes on building world peace one peaceful mind at a time.

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Thursday Evening Class - How toĀ Understand and SolveĀ our Human Problems

In the upcoming classes we will look at Buddhist teachings which offer clear and simple solutions to all our problems, guiding us to an oasis of peace within our own hearts.

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Monday Evening ClassThursday Evening Meditation Class
Sunday: Meditations for World PeaceDomingo: Meditaciones Para la Paz Mundial
Self-Care Saturday Workshop

Meditation Changes Everything

So much of the stress and tension we normally experience comes from our mind, and many of the problems we experience, including ill health, are caused or aggravated by this stress. Just by doing breathing meditation for ten or fifteen minutes each day, we will be able to reduce this stress.

We will experience a calm, spacious feeling in the mind, and many of our usual problems will fall away. Difficult situations will become easier to deal with, we will naturally feel warm and well disposed towards other people, and our relationships with others will gradually improve.

We should train in this preliminary meditation until we gain some experience of it. However, if we want to attain permanent, unchanging inner peace, and if we want to become completely free from problems and suffering, we need to advance beyond simple breathing meditation to more practical forms of meditation, such as the cycle of twenty-one Lamrim meditations explained in

The New Meditation Handbook

by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso