Meditation in DC

with Resident Teacher Kadam Michelle

Since our mind shapes every experience, improving our life begins with understanding and improving our mind. In this Friday night lecture, we’ll explore what the mind is, how it functions, and how we can work with it skillfully.

Through practical explanation and guided meditation, we’ll move beyond theory to gain a more personal, experiential understanding. This insight will help us navigate daily life with greater clarity and ease, while opening the door to a deeper, more joyful inner experience.

After the lecture, you’re warmly invited to stay for a community dinner, where we can relax, enjoy good food, and connect with others. It’s a wonderful opportunity to build friendship and continue the conversation in a meaningful and supportive atmosphere.

7pm: Lecture
8:15pm: Complimentary Vegetarian Community Dinner

Weekly Sunday Meditation Classes with Kelsang Delam

Join us each Sunday for a guided meditation class designed to help you cultivate inner peace, clarity, and wisdom in the midst of everyday life.

Each class begins with a guided breathing meditation to calm the mind, release distractions, and create a foundation of inner stillness.

This is followed by the Liberating Prayer, a traditional Buddhist prayer that inspires compassion and positive intention.

Kelsang Delam then offers a practical teaching based on the current class series, sharing timeless Buddhist wisdom in a way that is accessible and relevant to the challenges and opportunities of modern life.

The teaching is followed by a second guided meditation, giving you the opportunity to deepen your understanding by reflecting on the teaching and bringing it into your own experience.

When time allows, the class concludes with a group discussion and an opportunity to ask questions, helping you gain greater insight and confidence in applying the teachings to your daily life.

After class stay for coffee/tea and community!

Whether you're new to meditation or have an established practice, these weekly classes offer a supportive and welcoming space to develop a peaceful mind and a compassionate heart.

with Buddhist Teacher Kelsang Delam

In these turbulent times, it is crucial that we develop peaceful minds to enable the emergence of a more harmonious world. The format of this class was designed by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche so that people have a special method to create the causes for world peace.

Classes include a short teaching and advice for life, two guided meditations, and inspiring prayers for world peace.

After the class, join us for a pancake breakfast, coffee, tea and other delicious treats! Feel free to browse our bookstore for unique items. Everyone is welcome.

This event is free, you are welcome to make a donation.

Buddhist meditation imaginatively transforms all our experiences, both good and bad, into causes of spiritual growth. Drawn from both sutra and tantra teachings, this series explores how to playfully reimagine everyday enjoyments, connect with our potential for happiness, and develop confidence in our ability to change. This series is appropriate for beginners as well as those with some prior experience of meditation.

Whether you’re new to meditation or looking to deepen your practice, these meditation classes offer practical tools to help you stay balanced, focused, and inspired in daily life.

September 14: How to use enjoyments as spiritual fuel
September 21: How our mind creates our world
September 28: How to break through our self-limitations
October 5: How to become the person we want to be