Kadampa Meditation Center Long Island

FRIDAY 12-1pm
Silent Meditation Time

Everyone Welcome

Come and sit in our peaceful meditation space and enjoy your own silent meditation for 45 minutes. Stay afterwards for tea and discussion with Buddhist Teacher Edgar Mills.

(Both chairs and cushions are available)
Open to All, Free of charge
Please note: The Center will be closed Friday, July 4th for the holiday

How to Transform Illness into Spiritual Strength
with David Hoffner

Illness arrives uninvited, disrupting our lives and plans. But within its difficulty lies great opportunity for spiritual growth. This course invites participants to explore illness — not as a detour from our spiritual path, but as the path itself. The class includes relevant, practical wisdom from Buddha, guided meditations and discussion. Everyone is welcome.
$20/free for members

For as long as we can remember, happiness seems to be just around the corner. All we have to do is just get that thing — the next i-phone, the next relationship, the next vacation — the next thing that will finally give us the real happiness that we long for. But even if we do get what we want, we don’t always get the satisfaction we’d hoped for, and even if we get some satisfaction, it doesn’t seem to last! What’s going on here?! The Buddhist master Atisha likened this to drinking sea water - the more we drink, the thirstier we become.
We need to begin to find happiness in a different way. In this series, we’ll learn to recognize this constant craving that Buddha called desirous attachment, and then learn a different way to experience the deep and stable happiness we long for.