Inspiring Weekends of Wisdom and Transformation
This season, Kadampa communities around the world come together for special weekends of teachings and meditation. People from KMC Peru, Tara IKRC and KMC Rio de Janeiro, had the opportunity to explore Buddha’s teachings in depth, gain practical tools for transforming their daily lives, and enjoy the inspiration of practicing together.
Special Events at KMC Peru with visiting Teachers Gen-la Kelsang Sangden and Gen Kelsang Atisha
A Truly Meaningful weekend
Meaning, Learning & Deep Connection.
Last weekend, KMC Peru had the great good fortune to welcome Gen-la Kelsang Sangden for a truly special event. It was a meaningful weekend filled with inspiring teachings, learning, and a deep sense of connection.
During the course on love and attachment, Gen-la Sangden shared clear and relatable teachings that encouraged everyone to reflect on how to develop a more freeing, unconditional, and sincere love. Her guidance offered practical ways to understand our experiences and cultivate a warmer, more open heart.
The weekend was very well attended and took place in a beautiful atmosphere of harmony and joy. The center looked especially welcoming, and a wonderful sense of community could be felt throughout the weekend. Participants not only had the opportunity to learn and meditate together, but also to enjoy each other’s company, share meaningful moments, and feel part of something truly special.
KMC Peru would like to express its heartfelt gratitude to Gen-la Kelsang Sangden for sharing these precious teachings, and a special thank you to everyone who participated and contributed to making the weekend such a joyful and meaningful experience.
Weekend Event
Practical Tools for a Calmer Mind
KMC Peru also hosted a weekend event with Gen Kelsang Atisha, Resident Teacher of KMC Colombia. During the course, Gen Atisha gave teachings on how to deal with anxiety, helping participants discover practical tools to understand their minds and begin to free themselves from unnecessary worries.
Thank you to Gen Kelsang Atisha for sharing such precious teachings, and a special thank you to everyone who participated in and helped organize the events. Every smile, act of kindness, and contribution helped make this beautiful gathering possible.
'Refresh Your Life' weekend at Tara International Kadampa Retreat Centre, UK
A weekend of Dharma Inspiration
Refresh Your Life!
A special weekend with more than 80 people gathered at Tara International Kadampa Retreat Centre for Refresh Your Life! a special weekend course with Gen-la Kelsang Khyenrab on the six perfections.
During the weekend, Gen-la gave inspiring teachings on how the practices of giving, moral discipline, patience, effort, concentration and wisdom can become part of our everyday life. His down-to-earth, accessible and practical presentation showed how these precious instructions can help us transform ordinary daily experiences into opportunities for spiritual growth. Gen-la’s warm humor provided lasting memories of the teachings so we take them to heart!
Between teaching sessions, everyone had time to discuss and contemplate what they had heard, sharing their understanding and experience with one another. Everyone finished the course feeling inspired and encouraged, with practical guidance they could take home and continue to apply in their daily lives.
The course brought together guests, residents, community members and volunteers from around the world, all contributing to a warm and joyful atmosphere. Alongside the teachings, participants enjoyed comfortable accommodation, time in the peaceful surroundings of Tara IKRC, the World Peace Café and Tharpa Bookstore & Gift Shop, as well as the friendship of a welcoming international Kadampa community.
It was a joyful example of the special function of a Kadampa center — a place where people can come together to receive precious teachings, help one another deepen their experience of Dharma, and return home inspired to integrate Buddha's teachings into their everyday lives.
Thank you Gen-la Kelsang Khyenrab for sharing these precious instructions, and to everyone who helped create the conditions for such a meaningful and inspiring weekend.
Kadampa Meditation Center Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
A Special Weekend Course
Channels, Winds & Drops
In September, we had the extraordinary good fortune to welcome Jeff Simm as our Guest Teacher at KMC Rio de Janeiro for a special weekend course on channels, winds, and drops.
It was a profound journey into our inner world, exploring the intimate relationship between mind and wind, and how understanding this relationship can help us access deeper levels of peace and wisdom.
Through Buddha’s teachings and practical meditation, we discovered how we can transform our inner world and gradually become truly peaceful and enlightened beings, even in a world experiencing so much pain and conflict.
Thank you, Jeff, for sharing your wisdom, kindness, and inspiration with us.
Center news update
Construction resumes at KMC Rio de Janeiro
Construction on KMC Rio’s new center has resumed, and the first walls are already going up! Little by little, we can begin to picture the spaces of our Center, where teachings, retreats, prayers, and many gatherings with our Sangha will take place.
There’s still a long way to go, and we want to share every step of the construction with you! Please enjoy this short video.
