Kadampa Meditation Center Long Island

Often it feels like we're just trying to get through each day as best as we can, avoiding as much difficulty as possible. Could our daily life, and our life as a whole, feel richer and more fulfilling?
In the book The New Eight Steps to Happiness, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso guides us through eight steps which can help us use the opportunity we have each day, to transform life's difficulties into valuable spiritual insights, bringing more meaning and happiness into our modern daily lives.

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.

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.

The meditation known as Taking and Giving, in Tibetan “tonglen”, has been used for centuries as a healing meditation. Not only is this meditation legendary for its physical healing properties, it is also a powerful method for healing painful mental tendencies such as insecurity, anger and hurt. Taking and Giving practice gives rise to innumerable benefits, including boosting positive energy, purifying the mind and in particular enabling us to deal skillfully and peacefully with our daily challenges. It also leads to the extraordinary mind of a special being, a Bodhisattva, often characterized as a “friend of the world”. In this series, Paige will introduce us to this amazing meditation – which is quite simple and can be practiced by anyone!