General Spiritual Director
Auspicious beginnings to the year
Jan 18, 2025
Auspicious beginnings
to the year
Beginning the year with good intentions and pure minds.
After the busyness of the end of year celebrations, the new year is a wonderful opportunity to make a fresh start with good intentions and pure minds. Kadampa centers support us in doing this. Here are the activities organized by centers in Colombia, Mexico and Argentina.
meaningful retreats in Bogota and Cali with KMC Colombia
new year WITH TARA IN KMC Colombia, BOGOTA
To welcome the new year, we engaged in 24-hour Tara chanting retreat, coming together to receive her profound blessings. Afterwards we and shared a meal as a community.
FIRST RETREAT IN CALI
On January 6th, we held our first retreat in Cali, the new branch in Colombia that we hope can grow and allow more people to meet Dharma. It was a significant retreat, beginning a new year with this new project.
AMITAYUS RETREAT IN BOGOTA
Finally, this weekend KMC Colombia began activities with the traditional Buddha Amitayus retreat. Around 50 people enjoyed profound teachings and got together to enjoy reciting and meditating.
Mahamudra meditations in Tepoztlán, Mexico
During the first week of January, we enjoyed a beautiful and very blessed away retreat in Tepoztlán with 25 fortunate people.
With the guidance of Gen Kelsang Nampur, Resident Teacher of KMC Cuernavaca, we practiced the five stages of completion stage to gain familiarity with these Highest Yoga Tantra meditations. At the same time, our kind Teacher helped us plan our spiritual goals for 2025.
With a heart full of joy and thinking about benefiting others, we are ready to live in accordance with Dharma and transform the experiences that the coming months hold for us.
first weekend of the year WITH AMITAYUS IN CORDOBA, Argentina
On the first weekend of the year, we gathered at Kadampa Meditation Center Cordoba in Argentina to make offerings and prayers to Buddha Amitayus.
We shared a beautiful weekend, with more than 25 people recognizing with great joy that a new year begins full of opportunities to achieve the goals that lead us to a meaningful and happy life.
Thank you, dearest Geshe-la. May holy Dharma flourish all over the world!
meditations on taking and giving in Merida, Mexico
We started the year in a great way with our first course of the year, New Year, New Me. Our Resident Teacher at KMC Merida, Gen Kelsang Chime, inspired us with clear, practical and accessible teachings for everyone.
She encouraged us to transform ourselves into happy, virtuous and peaceful people through the practice of supreme medicine: Buddha's advice from the book Universal Compassion, written by our founder, Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche.
Gen Chime highlighted the meditations on taking with compassion and giving with love, explaining that, by practicing them, we can reduce and eliminate our selfish attitudes, as well as reduce depression, anxiety and stress. At the same time, these meditations allow us to increase our compassion and love, accumulate a large amount of positive mental energy and purify our negative karma. In addition, they help us transform the difficulties of daily life into the spiritual path and awaken our Buddha nature, to benefit others without limits.
May all beings enjoy this great fortune!
