Kadampa Meditation Center Williamsburg Branch

Join us for New Year's Eve - a talk and guided meditation with Kadam Morten at 10:30pm through to the new year. Everyone welcome!

Practicing with wisdom...

As the Covid-19 outbreak closes businesses and institutions everywhere, we want to do everything we can to help our community stay peaceful and anxiety-free. Join us for our online classes to learn meditation methods designed to help us transform all our difficulties. Visit meditationinnewyork.org for the full schedule of classes. Stay safe and we look forward to opening our doors to our community again soon. #kadampa #meditationonline #stayconnected #inthistogether #buddha

Join us for our special event and 5-weeks series, Difficult Conversations, with Joseph Giacona. Starts March 2 #goodrelationships #findyourvoice #saywhatneedstobesaid #meditation #kadampa #buddha

Join us for this year's US Festival with the General Spiritual Director of the NKT, Gen-la Kelsang Dekyong. During this festival, we have the chance to gather in the Kadampa World Peace Temple to receive the blessing empowerment of the Buddha of Loving Kindness, Buddha Maitreya. Through receiving Maitreya’s powerful blessings, we can develop the most profoundly loving heart. Gen-la Dekyong will also give teachings on how to create a world of loving-kindness by starting with ourself. For more information, visit http://www.kadampafestivalus.org/

JOIN US THIS SATURDAY FOR OUR SPECIAL MEDITATION RETREAT WITH KADAM LUCY. This half-day retreat is part of a series of retreats offered one Saturday a month in Williamsburg. Meditation is not just about reducing stress. It’s about discovering the meaning of your life. For Buddha’s teachings to affect us deeply they need to touch our heart. One Saturday a month we will have a special opportunity to go deeper in our experience of meditation. Each monthly retreat will include two teachings and guided meditations on a specific topic taken from Buddha’s Lamrim teachings. January 18: Shelter from the Storm Meditations on Going for Refuge. Everybody welcome. Learn more at meditationinwilliamsburg.org/deeper

BOUNDLESS MIND, BOUNDLESS POSSIBILITY A HALF-DAY RETREAT IN WILLIAMSBURG THIS SATURDAY with Ashley Wolverton... How big is your mind? A two-foot square? The size of a small house? As big as Manhattan? None of those. Your mind is boundless. The scope of your awareness has no limits whatsoever. But we rarely if ever relate to it this way. And what a shame that is. In this half-day course we are going to dive into a liberating meditation known as Clarity of Mind, in which we come to experience the vastness and utter flexibility of our own mind. We’re not stuck in a small box at all. We all have the capacity to demolish this sense of limitation. The result? A level of freedom and well-being that we most likely have never before experienced. Visit: https://www.meditationinwilliamsburg.org//boundless-mind-b for more information. Everybody welcome.

Happy Holidays from Venerable Geshela-la!

Who will you be in 2020? Start the New Year powerfully and peacefully ... our world needs it. Experience the collective power of meditating together in a blessed space, creating inner happiness and outer harmony. We’ll gather at 8pm, for an introduction to the meditation practice of the Buddha of Compassion, followed by the practice itself. Then we’ll enjoy each others company along with a spread of vegetarian hors d’oeuvres (gluten-free and vegan options). Everyone welcome - both new and experienced practitioners. Register at: https://www.meditationinwilliamsburg.org/special-events/nye

Today’s retreat: Meditate with Kadam Morten. Around 40 of us are here learning about Joy and the Meaning of Death and how meditating on death will protect us from wasting this one precious human life we have. How incredibly fortunate we are to learn this! Join us in January for the next retreat in this series. More information coming soon...

On Monday night, 37 New Yorkers braved the bad weather to come and enjoy Gen Menla's final talk in NYC -- at KMC Williamsburg. In just four days, Gen Menla visited Harlem, Chelsea, Crown Heights and Williamsburg, meeting many new faces along the way and sharing lots of practical advice for how we can make every moment of our lives meaningful using Buddha's advice. We have all our fingers crossed he'll be back to visit us again in 2020.... Watch this space...

MEDITATION IS NOT JUST ABBOUT REDUCING STRESS, IT'S ABOUT DISCOVERING THE MEANING OF YOUR LIFE Meditate with Kadam Morten Saturday December 14, 10:30am - 1:30pm KMC Williamsburg Branch ... For Buddha’s teachings to affect us deeply they need to touch our heart. One Saturday a month we will have a special opportunity to go deeper in our experience of meditation. Kadam Morten will give two teachings and guided meditations on a specific topic taken from Buddha’s Lamrim teachings. This will be followed by an informal Q&A around the community table. Everyone welcome both new and experienced practitioners. December 14: Death and the Meaning of Life Register at: meditationinnewyork.org/deeper/

Happening now in Crown Heights...Gen Menla is teaching his second public talk in NYC on the Power of Intention. He has one more public talk - tomorrow night in Williamsburg. Everyone welcome meditationinwilliamsburg.org/public-talk-with-gen-menla

It's easy for us to go through our whole lives without ever really examining what we believe about what causes happiness and what causes suffering. In this video, Gen Kelsang Menla reminds us why it's so important that we ask these questions of ourself, because our answers will shape our entire lives. Everyone welcome to attend any or all of the events this weekend: https://meditationinnewyork.org/menla-nyc/

No matter how different we may feel from someone, in the depths of our hearts, we all share the same fundamental wish: to be happy and free from suffering. In this video, Buddhist monk Gen Kelsang Menla explores this universal truth and how we can use it to motivates us to train our minds and actualize our full potential. Mark Your Calendars: Monday, Dec. 9 at our Center in WB https://www.meditationinwilliamsburg.org/public-talk-with-g