Kadampa Meditation Center Texas

TODAY - SEP 16 - IS GIVING DAY TEXAS!

North Texas Giving Day is an 18-hour online fundraising event that empowers nonprofits and encourages donors by offering an easy-to-use platform and resources to connect them with local causes they care about. It has become the nation’s largest community-wide giving event.

Today, September 16, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., donations made during North Texas Giving Day will be matched dollar for dollar by the Communities Foundation of Texas, up to $10,000!

This is a unique chance to double your impact and help us expand our ability to offer Buddha's teachings to the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex community.

To Donate:

https://www.meditationintexas.org/courses-events/giving2024

The mind of great compassion embraces all sentient beings without exception.

- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, "Meaningful to Behold"

Our Foundation Program is back next week and we have a very special invitation to share with you all.

On Tuesday, Sep 17 at 7:00pm our Resident Teacher Gen Kelsang Menla will delight us with a free intro class to the program.

We will learn about its purpose and benefits, and receive an overview of the text we will be studying: Joyful Path of Good Fortune.

This program is a unique opportunity to deepen our understanding of Buddha's teachings.

It is also a unique opportunity to meet amazing people with whom to build a community based on love and the wish to be of benefit to others.

The connections and friendships that form can be truly transformative and lasting.

This program is a wishfulfilling jewel arising right at the heart of our busy modern lives.

Why would you miss this rare opportunity?

This is a free class and no previous registration needed. Simply come and join us for what will certainly be a blessed and joyful evening.

+ Info:
https://www.meditationintexas.org/courses-events/tuesday-fp-2024

Everybody Welcome!

THIS SATURDAY, Sep 14, 10:00am - 5:00pm

A Beginner's Guide to Meditation with Carol Salerno and Josh Hauberg

Join us for a full day retreat where we will teach on the foundations of Buddhist meditation with practical tips for starting and maintaining a meditation practice.

Ideal for beginners and those that are wanting to strengthen or reinvigorate their practice.

Everybody Welcome!

Vibrant Courses in Texas! 🥰

TODAY, Sep 10, at 19:00 – 21:00

JOIN US for Offering to the Spiritual Guide prayers

Kadampa Meditation Center Texas, 1875 Laws St, Dallas, TX 75202

Since the actual method to make our mind peaceful is training in meditation, we should apply effort to training in meditation.

- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, "Modern Buddhism"

HAPPY TARA DAY!

JOIN US TODAY, Sep 8 at 10:00am for Liberation from Sorrow prayers.

The opponent to anger is patience, and if we are seriously interested in advancing along the path of spiritual development there is no greater practice than this.

- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, "Meaningful to Behold"

Festival/Post-festival season is over. In transitioning to a new season, we would like to share these inspiring images of Kadam Dharma practitioners volunteering during Summer Festival and post-retreats.

All actions that benefit our centers and temples for world peace have the potential to bring benefit to all living beings. Since this is the intention that gave rise to them.

May the wheel of Dharma keep shinning forevermore!

And may our centers and temples enjoy a most beautiful season!

CHANGE YOUR MIND, CHANGE YOUR WORLD
Sundays from 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Sep 1 to Sep 29
In-Person or Online for Streaming Pass Members

When we hear about problems in the world, it is natural for us to wish for world peace, but world peace will never be achieved unless we first establish peace within our own minds. Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible.

How do we achieve this inner peace? Happiness and suffering are states of mind, so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind. It is only by controlling our mind, in particular our anger and attachments, that we can truly experience deep inner peace.

Once we create peace within our own mind and help others do the same, we can hope to achieve peace in this world.

+INFO:
https://www.meditationintexas.org/meditation-class-topics/change

MELODIOUS DRUM VICTORIOUS IN ALL DIRECTIONS

AUG 29 | 14:00 a 17:30

Melodious Drum is a ritual practice of the Dharma Protector, Dorje Shugden where we make extensive offerings and perform other practices for fulfilling the heart commitments of Kadampa Buddhism and for restoring any degenerated or broken commitments. Through this practice we come under the loving care and protection of this wisdom Buddha.

On protector day - the 29th of the month - Kadampa Meditation Centers all over the world set out special offerings and engage in this practice.

Join us tomorrow at KMC Texas!

Weekday Meditation Classes in September

When we are unable to accept our mistakes or shortcomings or feel as if we can’t live up to our own or others’ expectations, we may become depressed and excessively self-critical. This makes it impossible to be happy or make others happy.

Join us for a modern Buddhist teaching on how to care for yourself and others with love and compassion.

Available in four locations

Mondays in Plano
Mondays in Fort Worth
Tuesdays in Dallas
Wednesdays in Denton
Thursdays in Dallas

To learn more:
https://www.meditationintexas.org/caring

Enjoy some images of the beautiful weekend we have all shared at KMC TX with Kadam Lucy James. Full of wisdom and blissful moments.

Thanks to our volunteers and organizers, to our precious Sangha jewel, to our dear Kadam Lucy James and mainly, to our unequalled Spiritual Guide, Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.

May all beings enjoy the same great good fortune.

Each and every living being has the sincere wish to avoid all suffering and problems permanently.

-Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, "How to Solve Our Human Problems"

So much of the stress and tension we normally experience comes from our mind, and many of the problems we experience, including ill health, are caused or aggravated by this stress. Just by doing breathing meditation for 10 or 15 minutes each day we will be able to reduce this stress.

Join us in August for a series on the simple yet powerful practice of meditating on the breath. This class is great for beginners or experienced practitioners.

Available in four locations:

Mondays in Plano
Mondays in Fort Worth
Tuesdays in Dallas
Wednesdays in Denton
Thursdays in Dallas

For more information, visit our website:
https://www.meditationintexas.org

The US National Festival is an annual in person and online gathering of Kadampas from across the country, which takes place this year at the IKRC Grand Canyon from Fri., Sept. 20 to Wed., Sept 25.

NKT Deputy Spiritual Director Gen-la Jampa will grant the Blessing Empowerment of Vajrapani and provide teachings on using the Five Forces to Create Inner Change.

For more information:
https://buff.ly/40uMvdW

Podcast Kadampa en español.
Mini episodios de enseñanzas budistas muy prácticas y profundas💛

Escúchalos en Spotify:
https://i.mtr.cool/nbdcdjpjdu

Kadampa Podcasts are developing to bring more teachings, from more teachers, to more people. You will now be able to access your favourite podcasts on many mainstream streaming services.

https://kadampa.org/series/living-clarity

Bodhichitta is a spontaneous wish, motivated by great compassion, to attain enlightenment to benefit all living beings.

- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, "Joyful Path of Good Fortune"

Happiness and suffering are opposites, so if something is a real cause of happiness, it cannot give rise to suffering.

- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, "How to Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey"

In celebration of the 30th anniversary of KMC Texas, we have invited Kadam Lucy James to provide teachings and guided meditations from the 2024 International Kadampa Summer Festival.

Kadam Lucy, the Resident Teacher of Kadampa Meditation Center Colorado, is one of Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso’s most senior students and a longtime teacher within the New Kadampa Tradition.

She will draw upon extraordinary teachings from Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso's last public appearance in Portugal, as well as commentary from the 2024 International Kadampa Summer Festival.

This retreat will also include an explanation of The Great Mother, a powerful practice for removing obstacles in our lives.

For further information and to register:
https://www.meditationintexas.org/courses-events/overcoming-obstacles

In celebration of the 30th anniversary of KMC Texas, join us for this special public talk with Kadam Lucy James, who will share Buddha's insightful teachings on impermanence and change.

Kadam Lucy is the Resident Teacher of Kadampa Meditation Center Colorado, and she is one of Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso’s most senior students and a longtime teacher within the New Kadampa Tradition.

For further information and to register:
https://www.meditationintexas.org/courses-events/let-go

Wondering about our upcoming international festivals? Here is the answer. May all beings enjoy great good fortune as our own!

Inspiring images from our first week of Summer Festival ❤️

All the time, our day-to-day needs are provided through the kindness of others.

We brought nothing with us from our former life, yet, as soon as we were born, we were given a home, food, clothes, and everything we needed – all provided through the kindness of others.

- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, "The New Heart of Wisdom"