Change your Mind, Change your Life
Wtih Resident Teacher Gen Khyenwang
Wednesday | 7:00 – 8:15pm
2 ways to attend:
In-perso
Online via Zoom
For our meditations to be transformative, our heart needs to be touched. Learning how to reflect deeply on truths such as impermanence, the power of love and compassion and the way things really are will cause us to really change from within and will transform our daily actions and intentions into meaningful ones.
In this series, we will learn how to meditate on a special presentation of meditation objects that will lead us to developing our full potential and that will make our life peaceful and meaningful.
In this series, we will be using The Mirror of Dharma with Additions by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.
Register for class in-person OR online by clicking the appropriate link below:
Dec 1: In-Person | Online
$1
No one is turned away for lack of funds. Please contact Melissa (volunteer Administrative Director) at admin@odiyan
The Peace and Power of Meditation
Wtih Resident Teacher Gen Khyenwang
Sunday | 10:30 – 11:45am
2 ways to attend:
In-perso
Online via Zoom
Although meditation has countless benefits, from improving physical health to reducing anger, the main function of meditation is to make the mind calm and peaceful. With a calm, clear mind, we then begin to recognize and finally realize the incredible capacity of our mind to experience love, joy, compassion and much more.
Meditation, though, is much more than simply sitting in a special posture with our eyes closed. In order for our meditations to be successful and joyful, we need some special conditions or practices that will support and nurture the limitless potential of our mind.
In this series, we will learn what these practices are and how to apply them both in our sitting meditation and in our daily life situations.
This series is perfect for beginners and advanced meditators alike. Although it is beneficial to attend the whole series, you can still gain great benefit from dropping in to any one class.
Classes will include guided meditations and advice from Buddha’s teachings.
Everyone is welcome.
$1
No one is turned away for lack of funds. Please contact Melissa (volunteer Administrative Director) at admin@odiyan
How to Develop a Loving Heart
Wtih Resident Teacher Gen Khyenwang
Begins Nov. 30 | 6:30 – 7:30pm
2 ways to attend:
In-perso
Online via Zoom
Great compassion is the key to happiness. To develop true compassion, it must be based on a strong foundation of love. In this four week series, we will look at special meditations directed towards developing a warm heart, a feeling of being close to others. Learn to overcome your feelings of dislike and fault finding of others and discover the freedom of a loving mind.
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$10 per class | Free for Supporting Members
No one is turned away for lack of funds. Please contact Melissa (volunteer Administrative Director) at admin@odiyan
Special Talk and Guided Meditation | Finding Inner Calm: The Beauty of Meditation
With Resident Teacher Gen Khyenwang
Januar
2 ways to attend:
In-perso
Online via Zoom
Living amidst the chaos and uncertainty in our world around us, we may find ourselves overcome with stress, tension, worry and discouragement. Learn how to respond to situations that appear in daily life in ways that are skillful, positive and based on profound wisdom and compassion. Each of us has within us a limitless capacity to approach life with a sense of inner calm and clarity. Training in meditation allows us to access that potential and leads not only to a sense of well being and inner peace, but also directs us to discover great meaning in our life.
Everyone is welcome.
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Guru Yoga Mandala Offering Retreat
In Person Only
We all wish for spiritual realizations, but this depends upon many preliminary practices such as purifying negativity, accumulating merit, and receiving blessings. In this retreat, we will focus on the preliminary practices of accumulating merit, or positive energy, by making mandala offerings and receiving blessings by engaging in Guru Yoga practice.
A mandala is a traditional offering created through the power of imagination. The entire universe is visualized as transformed into a pure land, and then mentally offered to the Buddhas. A beautiful and creative practice, it is an extraordinary method for generating positive energy and good fortune.
Each session will include Offerin
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Friday night Introduction:
7 – 8:30pm
Saturday sessions:
9 – 10:15am
11:30am – 12:45pm
3 – 4:15pm
5:30 – 6:45pm
Sunday sessions:
8:30 – 9:45am
Drop in Sunday class: 10:30 – 11:45am
3 – 4:15pm
5:30 – 6:45pm
About the teacher:
Gen Khyenwang is Resident Teacher of Odiyana Kadampa Buddhist Center. She is a close disciple and student of Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso and has been practicing and teaching under his guidance for many years. The teachings she shares are clear, heartfelt and extremely practical for modern life.
Register here for In-Person only
Cost
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Free for Supporting Members
No one is turned away for lack of funds. Please contact Melissa (volunteer Administrative Director) at admin@odiyan
New Year’s Eve Celebration
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Thurs. Dec. 31 | 7 – 8:45p
Held in-person at the Center
Resident Teacher, Gen Khyenwang will give a brief talk on compassion followed by a guided meditation all within the practice of Avalokiteshvara (the Buddha of Compassion), a beautiful arrangement of prayer and mantra recitation. Together, we will dedicate our peaceful minds and positive energy to the welfare of all.
Everyone is welcome.
if you wish, bring a candle to light, representing your own compassionate determination for the new year.
7:00 – 8:00pm – Talk and Buddha of Compassion Practice
8:00 – 8:45pm – Social Time
By donation only.
For more information: info@odiyana.or
By donation only.
For more information: info@odiyana.or
Just Breathe: Mini-retreat for Everyone
With Resident Teacher Gen Khyenwang
Januar
In-perso
Be kind to yourself and start the new year off by taking care of your mind. In this mini-retreat, you will learn and practice simple meditations that allow you to develop and maintain a calm, clear mind. This clarity of mind naturally leads to an inner experience of peace and well-being. When our mind is peaceful, we can approach all situations with a more confident, positive and relaxed attitude.
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10 – 11am
11:30am – 12:30pm
1 – 2pm
For more information: info@odiyana.or
Cost:
$30 | $15 for Basic Members | Free for Full Members and Benefactors
No one is turned away for lack of funds. Please contact Melissa (volunteer Administrative Director) at admin@odiyan
Lamrim Retreat: How to find the real meaning of human life
With Resident Teacher Gen Kelsang Khyenwang
Januar
Guided Lamrim retreat – Transform your Mind, Transform your Life
2 ways to attend:
In-perso
Online via Zoom
Everyone is welcome to these guided meditations, called Kadam Lamrim, a special presentation of the “stages of the path to enlightenment”.
In this retreat, we will gain familiarity with the profound Lamrim meditations from The Mirror of Dharma with Additions and other Lamrim texts by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, a meditation master. Through engaging in meditation, we will improve our virtuous concentration and gain practical insight and determinations to carry into daily life. Learn to focus on your good qualities, positive intentions and your potential for inner peace, compassion and wisdom. Sessions are guided and Prayers for Meditation will be used to as a preliminary to the meditations.
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Friday, Jan. 14
7 – 8:30pm: Introduction to Lamrim Retreat
Saturday
*7 – 7:30am – Taking the Eight Mahayana Precepts (optional – see link below)
9am
11am
3p
5pm
Sunday, Jan. 16
8:30am
10:30am
2p
4pm
6pm – Wishfulfilling Jewel with Tsog offering
Monday, Jan. 17
9am
11am
3pm
5p
*For more information on taking Precepts, click here or contact Ryan at 860.874.1970
Coming soon
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Entire retreat: $70 | $35 for Basic members | No cost for Full or Benefactor members
Per Day: $25 | $12 for Basic Members | Free for Full or Benefactor Members
For more information: info@odiyana.or
