Healing Breath: The Magical Practice of Taking & Giving

Three-week series This ancient meditative practice is the best way to transform all types of difficulty such as pain, illness, anxiety — into beneficial power. Taking and giving is a beautiful and profound method to transform our personal problems and the sufferings...

Finding Happiness through Correct Imagination

The mind is rich with creative power. Every day, in fact, our mind creates a multitude of realities, each attended by various emotions and experienced in diverse ways. These may bring us a sense of joy and freedom, but when our mind is governed by fear, anger or...

Finding Peace in Uncertain Times (MKE)

How can we find inner peace and a positive mind when our times appear so troubled? If we learn to investigate and understand our mind through contemplation and meditation, we can learn how to view ourselves, others, and the world differently so that we can be peaceful...

Purifying Negativity: Overcoming Inner Obstacles

Buddha taught that our mind creates our experience of everything, and due to negativity in our mind we experience problems and suffering. Through his understanding of how karma functions, Buddha taught several methods to purify negativity within our mind. Through...

Compassion and Fasting Retreat – Nyungne

Nyungne is a special fasting and purification practice performed in conjunction with prostrations and prayers to Thousand-armed Avalokiteshvara, the Buddha of Compassion. This is a very powerful method for purifying negativity of body, speech, and mind, and for...