Northwest Dharma Celebration 2025

Blessing Empowerment of Wisdom Buddha Manjushri & Teachings from How To Understand The Mind With Western US National Spiritual Director Gen Kelsang Demo

Join us on March 21 - 23 for The Northwest Dharma Celebration - a special opportunity for people from all over the Northwest to gather together as a spiritual community to receive empowerments, Dharma teachings, and to spendĀ time with Sangha.

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The Healing Power of Meditation - An Evening Talk

Meditation is a tool we use to understand, transform and heal our own mind. To fulfill our own and others' wishes for lasting happiness, we need to heal our mental continuum. We can accomplish this through the practice of meditation. Please join us for an inspiring talk by Gen-la Kelsang Jampa to learn about the healing power of meditation.

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General Program/ Drop-in Classes

Monday Evening Class Series - Cleaning Up Our Relationships

In these classes, we will explore Buddhaā€™s teachings that are antidotes to negative and harmful feelings, such as jealousy, anger, and blame. We can have such pure and harmonious relationships - caring without all the attachment.

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Being Kind to Our Self - A Self-Care Saturday

Be gentle, kind, and easy on yourself even amidst the pressures of life is what we will be looking at in this workshop.

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Monday Evening ClassThursday Evening Meditation Class
Sunday Morning Meditation ClassMeditaciĆ³n en EspaƱol Domingo
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