Northwest Dharma Celebration 2025 Registration Now Open!

Join us on March 21 - 23 for The Northwest Dharma Celebration - a special opportunity for people from all over the Northwest to gather together as a spiritual community to receive empowerments, Dharma teachings, and to spendĀ time with Sangha.

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Loving and Setting Boundaries

Boundaries in relationships can be tricky. We would love to love without boundaries, but due to reasons such as people having different priorities, different backgrounds, or inadequate coping skills when going through difficult times, it isnā€™t always possible to have no boundaries. In this ā€œSelf-care Saturdayā€ Cecilia Watson will help us explore and meditate on this essential topic.

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Life is Like a Dream - Sunday Morning Meditation Class Series

Join us in the new year series where we dive into Buddhist teachings about the nature of reality and how that can help us relate to life in a calm and happy way.

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Monday Evening ClassThursday Evening Meditation Class
Sunday Morning Meditation ClassMeditaciĆ³n en EspaƱol Domingo

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