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  • Intro Talk: Clarity & Concentration Weekend Silent Retreat

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    Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United States

    Enjoy a silent weekend of meditation retreat, learning how to meditate on the clarity of your very own subtle mind according to Buddha’s Mahamudra teachings. Through training in this clear and joyful meditation on our root mind we gain the ability to easily pacify our mental disturbances and distractions, and we create powerful causes to […]

  • Vajrayogini Self Initiation: Feast of Great Bliss (HYT Required)

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    Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United States

    Highest Yoga Tantra empowerments are required to attend. RSVP is required. Please email education@meditateinseattle.org by January 3rd to confirm your participation. Thank you. Once we have completed a Vajrayogini close retreat of actions and a fire puja, we are qualified to perform self-initiation practice. This renews and strengthens our Bodhisattva and Tantric vows. Through taking […]

  • Blissful Heart: Highest Yoga Tantra Retreat

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    Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United States

    Only practitioners with Highest Yoga Tantra empowerments can participate in this retreat. Deepen your experience of the profound meditations on Mahamudra Tantra, the union of great bliss and emptiness – the most subtle mind that experiences great bliss and realizes ultimate truth, the way things actually exist. Meditating on emptiness, channels, drops and winds as […]

  • Intro Talk: Blissful Heart - Highest Yoga Tantra Retreat

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    Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United States

    Only practitioners with Highest Yoga Tantra empowerments can participate in this retreat. Deepen your experience of the profound meditations on Mahamudra Tantra, the union of great bliss and emptiness – the most subtle mind that experiences great bliss and realizes ultimate truth, the way things actually exist. Meditating on emptiness, channels, drops and winds as […]

  • Journey to Peace Retreat: meditations on the stages of the path to enlightenment

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    Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United States

    Time races by! We can often feel like we are not fully seizing our life’s real purpose, as if we are just sleep-walking through life while our time is running out. Lamrim meditation offers us the precious opportunity to seize our life’s real purpose, guiding us on how to transform our busy daily life into […]

  • Intro Talk: Journey To Peace Retreat

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    Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United States

    Time races by! We can often feel like we are not fully seizing our life’s real purpose, as if we are just sleep-walking through life while our time is running out. Lamrim meditation offers us the precious opportunity to seize our life’s real purpose, guiding us on how to transform our busy daily life into […]

  • Open House & Pancake Breakfast

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    Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United States

    Join us for our Ballard Open House, coffee and FREE pancake breakfast from 8am-12 noon Drop-in to a 15-minute Guided Meditation at 9:30am, 10:30am and 11:30am Enjoy delicious pancakes, tour our beautiful meditation room and shrine, see the Kid's Class classroom, visit our bookstore and garden, and enjoy community

  • Center Cherishing Day

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    Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United States

    Cleaning Practice at the Temple. Come and join us as we prepare for the Northwest Dharma Celebration Feb 28 - March 1.

  • Coeur D' Alene - Library Talk

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    Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United States

    Meditation for Overcoming Painful Feelings Talk & Guided Meditation FREE EVENT With Kadam Trina Gunther, Buddhist Teacher. Join us for a free talk and guided meditation on how we can use Buddhist wisdom to overcome our painful feelings. When things go wrong, we can easily become overwhelmed by painful feelings that lead us to panic, […]

  • Northwest Dharma Celebration

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    Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United States

    Blessing Empowerment of Buddha White Tara Teachings on How to Swiftly Solve our Problems with the Wisdom of Subtle Impermanence with Gen Kelsang Gomlam Join us for our biggest gathering of the year, the 2026 Northwest Dharma Celebration! This year our Western National Spiritual Director and visiting Teacher Gen Kelsang Gomlam will grant the blessing […]

  • Northwest Dharma Celebration Introduction

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    Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United States

    Join us for our biggest gathering of the year, the 2026 Northwest Dharma Celebration! This year our Western National Spiritual Director and visiting Teacher Gen Kelsang Gomlam will grant the blessing empowerment of Buddha White Tara. An empowerment is a uniquely qualified guided meditation in which we receive special blessings into our mind. Gen Gomlam […]

  • Refuge Retreat

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    Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United States

    Going for refuge is the first of the four great preliminary guides which lead us to the state of full enlightenment. Through training in sincerely going for refuge we enter the gateway to Buddhism; and training in the compassionate mind of bodhichitta we enter the gateway to the Mahayana – the main path to the […]

  • Skagit Valley Day Retreat: Spiritual Vitality in the Heart

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    Fidalgo Bay Resort 4701 Fidalgo Bay Rd., Anacortes, WA, United States

    Where does our spiritual vitality come from? It comes from the precious mind of faith, which brings us a special experience of inner peace and ignites our passion for spiritual healing for ourselves and others. In this retreat, Kadam Trina will guide three sessions on the revitalizing mind of Buddhist faith in the enlightened Buddha […]

  • Ocean Meditation Retreat 2026

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    Ocean Park Retreat Center 28511 Vernon Ave, Ocean Park, WA, United States

    Discovering a World of Kindness A blissful weekend at Ocean Park Retreat Center In this retreat, we’ll learn to recognize the incredible kindness we have received from others — from our mother of this life, from countless beings who provide for us, and from those who guide and inspire our spiritual growth. Through guided meditations […]

  • Compassion Fasting Retreat (Nyungnay)

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    Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United States

    During this 2-day retreat, we practice fasting, making prostrations, and offering chanted prayers to the protector of the world, the Buddha of Compassion Avalokiteshvara. This beautiful practice emphasizes compassion for all living beings and is a powerful way to purify negativity, pacify strong delusions, receive blessings, and increase our love, compassion, and Bodhichitta. You are […]

  • US National Festival 2026

    Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United States

    The Heart of Reality Prajnaparamita Empowerment & Teachings on the Heart Sutra with Gen-la Kelsang Khyenrab This is an excerpt of the Heart Sutra, viewed to be the quintessence of Buddha's explanation of emptiness, or "ultimate truth". From one point of view, it is utterly simple and a bare revelation of the truth. From another […]

  • Fearless Wisdom: The Blessing Empowerment of Arya Tara

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    Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United States

    This empowerment is a sublime guided meditation through which we make a deep connection with Arya Green Tara and gain insight on how to rely on her blessings in our spiritual practice. Arya Tara is a female Buddha, a manifestation of the ultimate wisdom of all enlightened beings. “Tara” means rescuer; if we rely on […]

  • Precepts

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    Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United States

    The essence of the practice is to take eight precepts and to keep them purely for a period of twenty-four hours. By doing this practice again and again, we acquaint ourself with the practice of moral discipline and thereby make our human life meaningful. We receive many great benefits from practicing moral discipline in this […]