General Spiritual Director
Spreading Inner Peace and Joy in Our Communities
Dec 3, 2024
Dharma Celebration in Quebec 2024
Three Dharma Celebrations recently took place across the vast space of Canada. Gen-la Jampa continued his journey in Canada by coming for the first time to Montreal to give a beautiful public talk 'Is Peace Possible?' on Wednesday November 20, followed by the Quebec Dharma Celebration 2024.
Public Talk in MONTREAL
Our meditation room was full of people, many of them discovering the center for the first time and so happy to have the opportunity to hear Gen-la Jampa teaching in their city. Gen-la Jampa taught about how without inner peace, there is no possibility of outer peace and how the action of meditation functions to bring this sense of peace.
Gen-la took time to meet the participants after the talk who were delighted by his peaceful loving kindness.
Website KMC Montreal: https://www.meditationamontreal.org
QUEBEC DHARMA CELEBRATION
It is a great joy to see the Kadampa family of the province of Quebec gathering at KMC Montreal for our annual Dharma Celebration with our National Spiritual Director and Deputy Spiritual Director of NKT, Gen-la Kelsang Jampa!
A team of volunteers has been working hard to ensure that, despite some unforeseen circumstances, the Celebration can take place and that everyone can enjoy in the best conditions possible. The shop is filled with beautiful offerings, the World Peace Cafe overflowed with desserts prepared with care and the decorated community room gave a festive atmosphere.
The introduction was taught by Gen Kelsang Chögyan, KMC Montreal's Resident Teacher. She inspired us to rejoice in our Celebrations created by Venerable Geshe-la, which give us the opportunity to seek refuge in the Three Jewels. We gather to receive Buddha's blessings, listen to and practice holy Dharma, and inspire one another as a Sangha community.
To prepare for the empowerment and teachings, Kelsang Tsulma, Resident Teacher of KMC Shamata in Trois-Rivières, led us in beautiful meditations to grow our faith, contemplating Guru Buddha Shakyamuni's excellent qualities, feeling his presence and wishing to become like him a source of happiness and goodness for others.
Gen-la Jampa gave a powerful Buddha Shakyamuni empowerment with great gentleness and encouraged us to strive to always remember Guru Buddha at our heart. Next year, when we meet again, we want to be able to say that we remember Buddha more often in our hearts than we did this year!
We've been given a great banquet of instructions on the profound meaning of the Liberating Prayer, and an invitation to make our own personal commentary to it. After the last teaching, we all said farewell to each other with great affection, wishing to see each other again very soon.
From the bottom of our hearts, we thank Venerable Geshe-la for creating these out-of-the-ordinary events and Gen-la Kelsang Jampa for his great kindness in coming to Montreal for this Celebration.
