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.

This is an in-person event.

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Ocean Park Away Retreat

Join us for this special meditation retreat that has the power to awaken the limitless potential for happiness and transformation that lies within you.

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Forgiving Our Self

Assigning blame to ourselves or others is aĀ fruitless endeavor that only erodes our self-confidence and breeds animosity towards thoseĀ around us.Ā 

Rather than fixating on our imperfections, weā€™ll learn in this class, to recognize that imperfections do not define us and are not inherently part of us.

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General Program/ Drop-in Classes

Monday Evening Class Series - The Art of Contentment: How To Just Be

In this course, we will explore insights, ideas and meditations from within Kadampa Buddhism to help us feel more at peace with simply being, not doing. We will explore and get a taste of practices that help us to relax, and be okay within the peace, the quietness, the natural stillness of our own mind.

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Sunday Morning Class Series - Experience the Peace of Buddhism

The attitudes and approach to life taught in Kadampa Buddhism are particularly special ways of adjusting and relating to life and people. In these classes, each week we will explore another tool for relating to life in a happy and meaningful way.

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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