Upcoming Special Events | January 2024

Meditations to make our life happy and meaningful

The Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, or “Lamrim” in Tibetan, is a sophisticated, practical presentation of Buddhist teachings, which is designed to help us improve and grow in a deliberate and joyful way. Over 1000 years ago the Buddhist sage Atisha consolidated the 84,000 teachings of Buddha into the Lamrim, which are 21 essential meditations, revolutionizing the practice of Buddha’s teachings. Since then, Lamrim has flourished throughout the world and it perfectly fits within our modern lifestyle. It is simple, scientific, and incredibly potent.

The Lamrim takes us step-by-step through carefully crafted meditations so we can purposefully nourish the qualities in our mind that lead to our happiness and reduce our painful thoughts and feelings.

In this class, we will go one-by-one through the Lamrim, drawing out how we can personally use these meditations and create our own meditation practice. There will be a special emphasis on the art of meditation and how to really make our meditations effective.

Recommended reading materials: The New Meditation Handbook

Registration details

Cost: $10 per class; free for members

Livestream available for members.

Location:
Kadampa Meditation Center Madison
1825 S. Park St., Madison, WI

In just 30 minutes your whole day can change! By connecting to your heart, and intentionally cultivating inner peace, you can access the best of yourself and learn to live from this place of peace and wellbeing. 

This class is suitable for everyone and consists of a short talk and a guided meditation. No special clothing is required. Just show up!

While the meditations we offer are Buddhist, they generally appeal to anyone wanting to cultivate a deeper state of peace and authentic happiness.

Registration Details

Cost: $5 per class; free for members

Location:
Kadampa Meditation Center Madison
1825 S. Park St., Madison, WI

Tuesday Nights 6:30-8:30 PM (Enrollment is required)

Benefits of Foundation Program:

There are many benefits to joining the Foundation Program, namely:
• Increased personal insight, wisdom and experience of Dharma (Buddha’s teachings)
• Studying and meditating more effectively following a specially-designed program and qualified meditation teacher
• An opportunity to discuss and ask questions
• Help, support and friendship from like-minded people
• Gaining the ability to integrate Buddha’s instructions into busy modern life.

Foundation Program has many benefits and is not a drop-in class. Enrollment is required and we ask that everyone who enrolls has a sincere personal commitment to try to attend each class.

FP students enrollment offers all the benefits of being a KMC Madison Member. These personal commitments combined with the special structure of the class enable us to take the most from our efforts to improve the quality of our mind and realize our full potential.

The program consists of a dynamic combination of teachings, meditation and discussion, all of which enable us to go deeper into the layers of meaning within each book that we study. All of this helps us to make real progress along our spiritual path. Each class consists of preliminary prayers, guided meditation and reading from the book with commentary and discussion.

For more information about the Foundation Program from Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, click HERE

Watch a video of the benefits of this program run by another Kadampa Center in New York

If you have questions about joining Foundation Program, please email [email protected] or call (608) 661-3211.

Details

Location:
Kadampa Meditation Center Madison
1825 S. Park St., Madison, WI

Foundation Program is livestreamed and recorded for registered students.

No matter how negative our mind is we have the opportunity to purify it completely by engaging in purification, the root of future happiness and spiritual realizations. In this practice, we visualize the Thirty-five Confession Buddhas and practice purification in their presence. Through the power of their blessings and prayers, we can swiftly purify even the heaviest negative actions simply by faithfully reciting their names. During this practice, we will make one prostration to each of the 35 Buddhas.

You may attend in person as a walk-in.

Purchasing your own copy of the sadhana for this puja is not required, but your practice will be enhanced if you can follow along.

You may purchase the sadhana at this link.

Details

Location:
Kadampa Meditation Center Madison
1825 S. Park St., Madison, WI

Change yourself and change your world

In these classes we learn how to use the power of meditation to make our greatest contribution to peace in the world and bring a positive influence to those around us. Each class consists of guided meditations and a teaching on how we can use Buddhist principles and practice to establish harmony within ourselves and in our world. Be empowered to change yourself and change the world!

Registration Details

Cost: $10 per class
Each class is stand-alone in nature, so feel welcome to drop in any time! Register online or at the door.

Livestream available for members.

Location:
Kadampa Meditation Center Madison
1825 S. Park St., Madison, WI

Meditations to make our life happy and meaningful

The Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, or “Lamrim” in Tibetan, is a sophisticated, practical presentation of Buddhist teachings, which is designed to help us improve and grow in a deliberate and joyful way. Over 1000 years ago the Buddhist sage Atisha consolidated the 84,000 teachings of Buddha into the Lamrim, which are 21 essential meditations, revolutionizing the practice of Buddha’s teachings. Since then, Lamrim has flourished throughout the world and it perfectly fits within our modern lifestyle. It is simple, scientific, and incredibly potent.

The Lamrim takes us step-by-step through carefully crafted meditations so we can purposefully nourish the qualities in our mind that lead to our happiness and reduce our painful thoughts and feelings.

In this class, we will go one-by-one through the Lamrim, drawing out how we can personally use these meditations and create our own meditation practice. There will be a special emphasis on the art of meditation and how to really make our meditations effective.

Recommended reading materials: The New Meditation Handbook

Registration details

Cost: $10 per class; free for members

Livestream available for members.

Location:
Kadampa Meditation Center Madison
1825 S. Park St., Madison, WI

In just 30 minutes your whole day can change! By connecting to your heart, and intentionally cultivating inner peace, you can access the best of yourself and learn to live from this place of peace and wellbeing. 

This class is suitable for everyone and consists of a short talk and a guided meditation. No special clothing is required. Just show up!

While the meditations we offer are Buddhist, they generally appeal to anyone wanting to cultivate a deeper state of peace and authentic happiness.

Registration Details

Cost: $5 per class; free for members

Location:
Kadampa Meditation Center Madison
1825 S. Park St., Madison, WI