Growing in Inner Peace
From Guadalajara, Mexico, to York, UK, recent retreats and events offered wonderful opportunities for participants to deepen their meditation practice, cultivate positive minds, and connect with greater inner peace.
Read MoreOver two weeks, the Festival will emphasise teachings and meditations on Advice from Atisha’s Heart from our two most senior Teachers. For the first time, all of Venerable Geshe-la’s oral transmissions on the verses will be brought together, including his special advice on how to engage in retreat on this text.
Take advantage of this unique opportunity for spiritual growth. Early bird pricing ends June 15th—reserve your spot now and join us on a meaningful journey into deeper understanding and inner peace.
A chance to revisit the engaging videos created during the Spring Festival. Enjoy!
It’s the last day of the Festival, and the sun is shining inside and out. We conclude our short but powerful retreat with two final meditations and with the strong determination to continue our practice in daily life.
It’s a rainy day today but as we meditate, session upon session, you feel the truth about happiness not depending on external conditions. Some of the downpours that come during meditation sessions even enhance the feeling of the meditation.
The conclusion of the 2025 Spring Festival offers us an opportunity to reflect on this truly inspiring event.
In a world that can often feel difficult, it is easy for kindness to feel like an exception not the rule. Not at Festival! Everywhere you look there is kindness and it becomes the ‘normal’ to treat others gently, with kindness and care and to be on the receiving end of others’ consideration and generosity.
When you talk to people about what they are enjoying about being at the Festival normally they say ‘everything’! The spiritual program of course, and the opportunity to be immersed in Kadampa life, but one thing comes up again and again: being together. Love. Community.
In the afternoon everyone gathers expectantly for the actual blessing empowerment of Buddha Maitreya with Gen-la Jampa. The Temple is full and it is a joyful assembly.
It’s great to be back at the first Festival of the year! All day people have been arriving at Manjushri Centre on buses, in cars, by taxi and on foot. As more and more people flow in, the feeling of Festival swells.
