Meditation in Milwaukee

Tap into your own resilience and courage through the practice of meditation.

By training our mind in meditation we can learn to solve all our daily problems and bring about peace in our hearts. We can then share that peace and well-being with our family and friends. Through developing this skill we can learn to navigate even the most challenging and difficult situations. Ultimately we come to understand that we can transform our experience of the world by simply transforming our mind.

# Drawing Close to the Buddha of Loving Kindness
When we have a strong loving mind, our whole experience of the world changes. In addition, others feel this change and respond to it. In this very real sense, love has the power to transform our world.

In this talk, Gen Dorje will guide us through this mind of love. This class can also serve as an introduction to the Blessing Empowerment of Buddha Maitreya, the embodiment of the loving kindness of all the Buddhas. In this way we begin to become someone whose love transforms the world.
Everyone welcome!

#### About the teacher
Gen Kelsang Dorje is the resident teacher at the Kadampa Meditation Center Madison. As the resident teacher Gen Dorje is responsible for teaching and leading meditation classes, retreats, and workshops at the center and in branch locations. He has received extensive training under the guidance of Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, the founder of the New Kadampa Tradition. Gen Dorje is known for his warmth and humor in making Buddha’s teachings relevant to our modern life. He is an inspiring example of how to integrate these teachings into a joyful life and is committed to helping people improve their daily lives through meditation and mindfulness.

#### Registration Details:

A weekend course including the Empowerment of Buddha Maitreya with Gen Kelsang Dorje

When we have a strong loving mind, our whole experience of the world changes. In addition, others feel this change and respond to it. In this very real sense, love has the power to transform our world.

During this special event, Gen Kelsang Dorje will grant us the Blessed Empowerment of Buddha Maitreya; who is the embodiment of the loving kindness of all the Buddhas. An empowerment is a blissful guided meditation that connects us to Maitreya’s enlightened love giving us great power in our spiritual development.

In the commentary, Gen Dorje will share how to use the brief practice of Buddha Maitreya, to identify strongly with this Buddha’s qualities, and in turn learn to nurture them within ourselves. In this way we begin to become someone whose love transforms the world.

Saturday Empowerment Session is an in-person event only.

#### About the teacher
Gen Kelsang Dorje is the resident teacher at the Kadampa Meditation Center Madison. As the resident teacher Gen Dorje is responsible for teaching and leading meditation classes, retreats, and workshops at the center and in branch locations. He has received extensive training under the guidance of Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, the founder of the New Kadampa Tradition. Gen Dorje is known for his warmth and humor in making Buddha’s teachings relevant to our modern life. He is an inspiring example of how to integrate these teachings into a joyful life and is committed to helping people improve their daily lives through meditation and mindfulness.

#### Registration details
Cost (non-members):
Saturday Empowerment plus Friday night talk: $60 (no lunch) or $75 (includes lunch)

Tap into your own resilience and courage through the practice of meditation.

By training our mind in meditation we can learn to solve all our daily problems and bring about peace in our hearts. We can then share that peace and well-being with our family and friends. Through developing this skill we can learn to navigate even the most challenging and difficult situations. Ultimately we come to understand that we can transform our experience of the world by simply transforming our mind.