Upcoming Special Events | December

Name: Center Cherishing
Start: 2024-12-07
End: 2024-12-07
Location: KMC Madison

December

9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Center Cherishing

Location

KMC Madison

1825 S Park St, Madison, WI

A Holiday of Harmony

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Teacher

Gen Kelsang Dorje Resident Teacher, KMC Madison

Gen Kelsang Dorje

Resident Teacher, KMC Madison

Gen Kelsang Dorje is the resident teacher at the Kadampa Meditation Center Madison. As the resident teacher Gen Dorje is responsible for teaching and leading meditation classes, retreats, and workshops at the center and in branch locations. He has received extensive training under the guidance of Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, the founder of the New Kadampa Tradition. Gen Dorje is known for his warmth and humor in making Buddha’s teachings relevant to our modern life. He is an inspiring example of how to integrate these teachings into a joyful life and is committed to helping people improve their daily lives through meditation and mindfulness.

Special holiday celebration and dinner

As the year draws to an end come and celebrate the holidays with us!

The evening begins with an inspiring teaching to bring harmony and joy to our holidays; and guided meditation with our Resident Teacher, Gen Dorje.

Afterwards, we’ll enjoy the company of friends and a delectable vegetarian four course meal to celebrate the holiday season. Bring your friends and family – everyone welcome!

Registration details

Cost: $25

This is an in-person event only.

Hourly Schedule

Saturday, December 14

6 - 6:20pm
Welcome mocktails

6:20 - 7:05pm
Teaching & guided meditation

7:15pm
Dinner

December

10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Letting Go and Purifying: the practice of Vajrasattva

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Teacher

Lowanna Mobley Kadampa Teacher

Lowanna Mobley

Kadampa Teacher

Lowanna Mobley has been a longtime student of our Foundation Program (FP), where she also serves as our FP Monitor. She is known for her enthusiasm and loving nature, bringing humor and genuine insight to her teaching.

So, if we don’t like something that is happening to us or how we feel about it or indeed how we are reacting, this is a perfect reminder to us to purify this karma. Taking responsibility for our karma or actions can turn our lives around.

When we are doing Vajrasattva purification we can experience the purity flooding into us and we don’t hold back. Our negativity doesn’t exist from its own side – like everything else, it is a mere aspect of our mind. Purify the mind by mixing it with the extraordinary bliss and wisdom of enlightened beings and that negativity simply disappears because it is only appearance to mind.

In this day retreat we will learn how to skillfully engage in this practice, and how to use Vajrasattva’s mantra as an instrument of purification through which we can heal our mind of all negativities, painful and hurtful tendencies. This practice purifies our mind of our inner sources of unhappiness, it also removes obstacles to our making great progress on our spiritual path and liberates us to experience a joyful future.

Buddha Vajrasattva is a manifestation of the purified consciousness of all the Buddhas, appearing in a special form in order to help us purify our negativity. The practice of meditation and mantra recitation of Vajrasattva is a very powerful method for purifying our body, speech, and mind.

Schedule:

10am – 11:15 – Teaching Session

Break

11:45 – 1pm – Teaching / Practice Session

Registration details

Cost: $20

Hourly Schedule

Saturday, Dec. 28

10 - 11:15am
Teaching Session

11:45am - 1pm
Teaching / Practice Session

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Upcoming Special Events | December

Center Cherishing

A Holiday of Harmony

Letting Go and Purifying: the practice of Vajrasattva

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