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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
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
Getting Familiar with The Blissful Path
A Day Retreat for Highest Yoga Tantra Practitioners
Saturday, January 25th • 10am - 6pm
$30 (3 Sessions + Offering to the Spiritual Guide with tsog)
with Resident Teacher, John Baker
Everyone Welcome, no experience necessary
This retreat will help you gain confidence in your generation stage practice of Vajrayogini and familiarity with the short Vajrayogini sadhana, The Blissful Path.
This retreat is for those who have been granted an empowerment of Highest Yoga Tantra.
Please remember to bring a tsog offering and The Blissful Path prayer booklet.
SCHEDULE:
Session 1: 10:00 - 11:15
Session 2: 11:45 - 1:00
Session 3: 2:30 - 3:45
OSG with Tsog: 4:30 - 6:00
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
Mid-Atlantic Dharma Celebration 2025
Buddha Manjushri Empowerment and Teachings on the Protection of Wisdom
March 7 - 9 • Kadampa Meditation Center Washington DC
with Kadam Morten Clausen
Everyone Welcome
Join in with fellow meditators from throughout the Mid-Atlantic region to receive the blessing empowerment of Buddha Manjushri, listen to teachings on the protection of wisdom, and meditate and socialize together.
Wisdom is a virtuous intelligent mind that sees through the superficial veneer of things to the truth. It is a mind that aligns us with reality, thereby liberating us from ignorance, the source of all our suffering. It is like an inner teacher that we carry in our hearts and like a protector that protects us from future suffering. How can we develop this mind? By tuning in to the Buddha of Wisdom, Manjushri. When we open ourself to receiving Manjushri’s blessings, our mind is empowered to experience real insight into the truth of how things exist.
The Mid-Atlantic Dharma Celebration provides a precious opportunity to study, listen to and practice the special presentation of modern Buddhism taught by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche, the Founder of the New Kadampa Tradition.