Kadampa Meditation Center North Carolina - Charlotte

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An empowerment is a very special blessing ceremony that functions to heal our mental continuum and awaken our Buddha nature. Each empowerment introduces us to a particular enlightened Deity, their meditations and mantras. The particular enlightened Deity to which we will be introduced in this empowerment is Vajrapani. Vajrapani is an emanation of Buddha Vajradhara whose function is to destroy the delusions of living beings by bestowing special power upon their body and mind.
“O Guru Vajrapani, synthesis of all Buddhas, please bestow upon my body, speech and mind the special power to transform them into a Buddha’s body, speech and mind, and pacify all outer and inner obstacles.” - The Yoga of Buddha Vajrapani

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Emptiness is the way things really are. Emptiness is not nothingness. It is the way things exist as opposed to the way they appear. Realizing emptiness is the method to release our mind from the ignorance of self-grasping. As the great Yogi Saraha said, “If your mind is released permanently from self-grasping, there is no doubt that you will be released permanently from suffering.”
Community Brunch is right after class upstairs in the Community Dining Room.
• The food will be fun and delicious, prepared by one of our volunteers, no need to bring anything.

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We all want to be happy, but how often do we seek happiness outside our self? It might seem like a cliché, but it’s true that we’ll never be happy with anyone else if we’re not happy with our self. The first step to finding happiness inside our self is working on our own mind. Therefore, the basic Buddhist meditations are for establishing happiness within our own mind.
Community Dinner is right after class upstairs in the Community Dining Room.
• The food will be fun and delicious, prepared by one of our volunteers, no need to bring anything.
• There is no additional cost

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We all want to be happy all the time, and we never want to suffer. Unfortunately, we experience a lot of unnecessary unhappiness and mental disturbance. We need to understand more clearly how to create happiness, not suffering.

In these classes, we will explore and meditate on the essential practices of gratitude, love, and compassion, leading us gradually to a supremely confident wish to realize our spiritual potential fully, so that we can really benefit others in more profound ways.