The Founder of Modern Kadampa Buddhism, Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche, a world-renowned meditation master and Teacher inspired thousands of people around the world to apply the pure teachings of Buddha to their modern lives to solve their personal problems and discover a deep and lasting inner peace and happiness.
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General Spiritual DirectorGen-la Kelsang Jampa is the General Spiritual Director of NKT-IKBU and Resident Teacher at Manjushri KMC, the mother centre of modern Buddhism
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JULY 24 - AUGUST 8
OCTOBER 9 - 15
In this precept ‘abandon poisonous food’ we are encouraged to engage in every virtue while remembering emptiness. If we don’t we are creating contaminated virtues actions that are still causes for samsara.
More information on this subject can be found in the books How to Transform Your Life and Universal Compassion.
The day begins with a morning meditation on the first Lamrim meditation that we learned about yesterday, the preciousness of our human life. Using the Festival teachings and Venerable Geshe-la's words to help us to contemplate the purpose of the meditation which is to encourage us to take the real meaning of our human lives
