Calendar of Events & Classes

Meditation on the Mind’s Clear Nature Meditation on the clarity of the mind has so many benefits. For example, it’s profoundly relaxing and enables us to develop strong mindfulness and deep concentration. But it’s so much more than that. Because the mind is the basis of all we know and perceive, deepening our un , ...

About the Teacher Training Program The Teacher Training Program (TTP) is designed for people who wish to train as authentic Dharma Teachers or simply engage with Buddha’s teachings in the deepest possible manner. In addition to completing the study of fourteen texts of Sutra and Tantra, the student is required to obser , ...

PRAYERS FOR WORLD PEACE: Deflecting, Defusing and Disposing Anger Sometimes we suppress our anger because we are afraid of the consequences or of the person making us angry. This eventually makes us feel bitter, weak and disempowered. Sometimes we express our anger because we want to hurt or retaliate. This generally l , ...

How to Create Happiness We all want to be happy, unfortunately we create a lot of problems for ourselves and others. In this course, we’ll be learning to train our mind in ways of thinking that lead to inner peace, the only source of real happiness. In particular, we’ll be learning from The New Eight Steps , ...

Please join us for prayers and requests to the wisdom Buddha Je Tsongkhapa combined with offerings to the protector Buddha Dorje Shugden. If you would like to add someone to our prayer list for someone experiencing illness or who recently died, please contact us. , ...

Making Personal Change: The Five Forces that Lead to Happiness Many of us want to make personal change. Perhaps we want to better control our thoughts, or to put aside worry, or to improve our ability to focus. Buddha teaches these are some of the ways we can become happier—and who doesn’t want that? But these kinds of , ...

The Happiness Tool Kit Meditations on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment 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 old it perfectly , ...

Thursday Foundation Program with Susan de la Vergne Book: Meaningful to Behold Thursdays | 9:30am-11:30am If you are interested in this class, please email [email protected] to learn how to become a Foundation Program member. Meaningful to Behold by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. Many people have the compassionate wis , ...

Abiding in Love 2nd Annual Camp Indianola Meditation Away Retreat With Gen Kelsang Rinzin  December 6-8, 2024 Start the holidays with the stillness of tranquil abiding on love.  Love is the foundation for all harmonious, enduring relationships.  If we love our friends and our family, we will be happy, even if we have l , ...

Abiding in Love 2nd Annual Camp Indianola Meditation Away Retreat With Gen Kelsang Rinzin  December 6-8, 2024 Start the holidays with the stillness of tranquil abiding on love.  Love is the foundation for all harmonious, enduring relationships.  If we love our friends and our family, we will be happy, even if we have l , ...

Abiding in Love 2nd Annual Camp Indianola Meditation Away Retreat With Gen Kelsang Rinzin  December 6-8, 2024 Start the holidays with the stillness of tranquil abiding on love.  Love is the foundation for all harmonious, enduring relationships.  If we love our friends and our family, we will be happy, even if we have l , ...

Meditation on the Mind’s Clear Nature Meditation on the clarity of the mind has so many benefits. For example, it’s profoundly relaxing and enables us to develop strong mindfulness and deep concentration. But it’s so much more than that. Because the mind is the basis of all we know and perceive, deepening our un , ...

PRAYERS FOR WORLD PEACE: Deflecting, Defusing and Disposing Anger Sometimes we suppress our anger because we are afraid of the consequences or of the person making us angry. This eventually makes us feel bitter, weak and disempowered. Sometimes we express our anger because we want to hurt or retaliate. This generally l , ...

How to Create Happiness We all want to be happy, unfortunately we create a lot of problems for ourselves and others. In this course, we’ll be learning to train our mind in ways of thinking that lead to inner peace, the only source of real happiness. In particular, we’ll be learning from The New Eight Steps , ...

This is a special practice of relying upon our Spiritual Guide as a Buddha and making praises and requests, but it also contains beautiful essential instructions on all the stages of the path to enlightenment and training the mind, as well as both the generation stage and completion stage of Highest Yoga Tantra. , ...

Making Personal Change: The Five Forces that Lead to Happiness Many of us want to make personal change. Perhaps we want to better control our thoughts, or to put aside worry, or to improve our ability to focus. Buddha teaches these are some of the ways we can become happier—and who doesn’t want that? But these kinds of , ...

Thursday Foundation Program with Susan de la Vergne Book: Meaningful to Behold Thursdays | 9:30am-11:30am If you are interested in this class, please email [email protected] to learn how to become a Foundation Program member. Meaningful to Behold by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. Many people have the compassionate wis , ...

The Happiness Tool Kit Meditations on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment 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 old it perfectl , ...

Saturday Foundation Program With Kadam Heather Book: Universal Compassion Saturdays | 9:00am—11:00am If you are interested in this class, please email [email protected] to learn how to become a Foundation Program member. Universal Compassion is a commentary to a twelfth-century text on training the mind, enti , ...

Venerable Geshe-la emphasized that when we participate in actions to benefit our Center, we are in fact benefiting all living beings. Through these virtuous actions, we accumulate a vast amount of merit, purify our negativities, and receive profound blessings. We invite you to join us for an afternoon of cherishing our , ...

Salem Saturday Foundation Program With Kadam Heather Book: MEANINGFUL TO BEHOLD Saturdays | 4:00pm—6:00pm If you are interested in this class, please email [email protected] to learn how to become a Foundation Program member. Meaningful to Behold by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. Many people have the compassionate , ...

Meditation on the Mind’s Clear Nature Meditation on the clarity of the mind has so many benefits. For example, it’s profoundly relaxing and enables us to develop strong mindfulness and deep concentration. But it’s so much more than that. Because the mind is the basis of all we know and perceive, deepening our un , ...

Powa Ceremony is a beautiful and powerful ritual practice drawn from the Buddhist tantras which enables us to benefit the deceased by coming together as a group and making prayers and offerings on their behalf. , ...

About the Teacher Training Program The Teacher Training Program (TTP) is designed for people who wish to train as authentic Dharma Teachers or simply engage with Buddha’s teachings in the deepest possible manner. In addition to completing the study of fourteen texts of Sutra and Tantra, the student is required to obser , ...

PRAYERS FOR WORLD PEACE: Deflecting, Defusing and Disposing Anger Sometimes we suppress our anger because we are afraid of the consequences or of the person making us angry. This eventually makes us feel bitter, weak and disempowered. Sometimes we express our anger because we want to hurt or retaliate. This generally l , ...

How to Keep a Peaceful Mind During the Holidays For this final class of 2024, we will discuss practical tools to keep an open and loving mind toward our friends and family so that we can enjoy the holidays in a meaningful way. Everyone Welcome. No experience necessary. Please join! Free for Supporters Address: Yoga Ref , ...

Please join us for prayers and requests to the wisdom Buddha Je Tsongkhapa combined with offerings to the protector Buddha Dorje Shugden. If you would like to add someone to our prayer list for someone experiencing illness or who recently died, please contact us. , ...

Peace in the New Year (and Always) Where does peace come from? Our own experience tells us that peace never comes from war. Nor does it come from international treaties or elaborate negotiations between the leaders of nations. At best, negotiations bring about a reduction in hostilities—which is certainly a good thing! , ...

The Happiness Tool Kit Meditations on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment 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 old it perfectly , ...

Thursday Foundation Program with Susan de la Vergne Book: Meaningful to Behold Thursdays | 9:30am-11:30am If you are interested in this class, please email [email protected] to learn how to become a Foundation Program member. Meaningful to Behold by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. Many people have the compassionate wis , ...

The Happiness Tool Kit Meditations on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment 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 old it perfectl , ...

Meditation as Medicine – How to Understand the Mind Saturday, December 21, from 10am to 4pm Buddha taught that there are inner diseases called the three poisons that are at the root of all our problems and pain. If we can understand our own mind, we can learn to first recognize, then reduce and finally abandon co , ...

Power of a Positive Mind – Public Talk Sunday morning class with Gen Demo Sunday, December 22, 10:00 – 11:15am Our thoughts create our world, so our mind can be our best friend or our worst enemy. How wonderful it would be to relate to ourself and our world in a way that allows happiness and joy to naturally ari , ...

Meditation on the Mind’s Clear Nature Meditation on the clarity of the mind has so many benefits. For example, it’s profoundly relaxing and enables us to develop strong mindfulness and deep concentration. But it’s so much more than that. Because the mind is the basis of all we know and perceive, deepening our un , ...

PRAYERS FOR WORLD PEACE: Deflecting, Defusing and Disposing Anger Sometimes we suppress our anger because we are afraid of the consequences or of the person making us angry. This eventually makes us feel bitter, weak and disempowered. Sometimes we express our anger because we want to hurt or retaliate. This generally l , ...

Meditation on the Mind’s Clear Nature Meditation on the clarity of the mind has so many benefits. For example, it’s profoundly relaxing and enables us to develop strong mindfulness and deep concentration. But it’s so much more than that. Because the mind is the basis of all we know and perceive, deepening our un , ...

PRAYERS FOR WORLD PEACE: Deflecting, Defusing and Disposing Anger Sometimes we suppress our anger because we are afraid of the consequences or of the person making us angry. This eventually makes us feel bitter, weak and disempowered. Sometimes we express our anger because we want to hurt or retaliate. This generally l , ...

What Goes Around Comes Around: Karma Explained Everyone’s heard of karma, but few people understand what it is and how we can use our understanding of karma to improve our lives, both now and in the future. Join us for this six-week course about what karma is, how it functions, and the important role it plays in our li , ...

Thursday Foundation Program with Susan de la Vergne Book: Meaningful to Behold Thursdays | 9:30am-11:30am If you are interested in this class, please email [email protected] to learn how to become a Foundation Program member. Meaningful to Behold by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. Many people have the compassionate wis , ...

Registration coming soon Free for Supporters , ...

Saturday Foundation Program With Kadam Heather Book: Universal Compassion Saturdays | 9:00am—11:00am If you are interested in this class, please email [email protected] to learn how to become a Foundation Program member. Universal Compassion is a commentary to a twelfth-century text on training the mind, enti , ...

Salem Saturday Foundation Program With Kadam Heather Book: MEANINGFUL TO BEHOLD Saturdays | 4:00pm—6:00pm If you are interested in this class, please email [email protected] to learn how to become a Foundation Program member. Meaningful to Behold by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. Many people have the compassionate , ...