Kadampa Meditation Center Long Island

Imagine moving through the world, through all our activities and interactions, through whatever the news of the day brings, without feeling like we're fighting against the tide…
With the special wisdom of patient acceptance, we can live with grace and composure, keeping a clear open mind that is able to respond to whatever situations arise in the most constructive beneficial way, for both ourself and others.

"Patience is a mind that is able to accept fully and happily, whatever occurs. It is much more than just gritting our teeth and putting up with things. Being patient means to welcome wholeheartedly whatever arises, having given up the idea that things should be other than what they are."
--- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subsides and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.

The meditation on the clarity of the mind is one of the best and most powerful methods to facilitate this shift - allowing us to easily let go of busyness and distraction and to access an experience of mental peace and calm.
In this special weekly series, we will learn step-by-step how to meditate on the nature of the mind - a state of inner clarity that naturally restores our well being and reveals our unlimited potential for growth and development.

Find the missing peace and discover your true self - or ‘Buddha Nature’ - through this simple, yet profound meditation.

Are you at a loss as to how to help our world? We are not separate from our world; each of us influences this planet and everyone on it. In these uncertain times, it is so important to learn to meditate because the bigger our heart the more difference we will make.

We’ll start with breathing meditation, followed by a contemplative reading & teaching from the book, 8 Steps to Happiness, then the beautiful “Prayers for World Peace” and a final meditation.

Anger is not our friend. Ever. It does not energize us nor does it mobilize us to address and amend wrongs. It is a foe, pure and simple, leaving only destruction in its wake and finally changing the hearts and minds of exactly none. Perhaps here is the question: when there is so much cruelty and inconsideration and insensitivity in our world, is it possible not to be angry? Can anger sometimes be justified?

In this series we will look at Buddha’s wisdom and analysis of the problem with anger—why it is a poison that harms us even more than those we inflict it upon. We will identify alternative minds we can go to instead that can free us and our world from what has become such a nasty and tragic habit of mind. We can un-default the default of anger.

Please join us as we investigate clear answers to the legitimate questions we all have about anger as well as the tools and resolve necessary to do battle against the real enemy, anger itself.