Ocean Park Away Retreat

Join us for this special meditation retreat that has the power to awaken the limitless potential for happiness and transformation that lies within you.

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Registration closes Monday, May 12

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General Program/ Drop-in Classes

Monday Evening Class Series with Kadam Trina - Heal Your Mind, Heal Your Life

Join these drop-in classes to gain authentic experience in the healing power of meditation as taught by Buddha. We will explore how to practically apply the teachings of the book Modern Buddhism, written by the renowned Buddhist Master Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche, so that we can find real inner peace and healing.

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Sunday Morning Class Series with Kadam Trina - Experience the Peace of Buddhism

The attitudes and approach to life taught in Kadampa Buddhism are particularly special ways of adjusting and relating to life and people. In these classes, each week we will explore another tool for relating to life in a happy and meaningful way.

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Sunday Morning Class Series with Kadam Trina - Meditations for World Peace

Generate authentic hope and happiness every Sunday morning at Kadampa Meditation Center Washington! Join us for our classes on building world peace one peaceful mind at a time.

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Thursday Evening Class - How to Understand and Solve our Human Problems

Thursday Evenings | May 1 -  June 26

6:00pm - 7:15pm

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Monday Evening ClassThursday Evening Meditation Class
Sunday Morning Meditation ClassMeditación en Español Domingo
Self-Care Saturday Workshop

Meditation Changes Everything

So much of the stress and tension we normally experience comes from our mind, and many of the problems we experience, including ill health, are caused or aggravated by this stress. Just by doing breathing meditation for ten or fifteen minutes each day, we will be able to reduce this stress.

We will experience a calm, spacious feeling in the mind, and many of our usual problems will fall away. Difficult situations will become easier to deal with, we will naturally feel warm and well disposed towards other people, and our relationships with others will gradually improve.

We should train in this preliminary meditation until we gain some experience of it. However, if we want to attain permanent, unchanging inner peace, and if we want to become completely free from problems and suffering, we need to advance beyond simple breathing meditation to more practical forms of meditation, such as the cycle of twenty-one Lamrim meditations explained in

The New Meditation Handbook

by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso