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Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United States
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Special Talk Series: Mastering Meditation with a Meditation Master
Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United StatesRe-establish or deepen your meditation practice through the sublime final advice of our Founder and Spiritual Guide, the extraordinary meditation master Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche.
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The Power of a Calm Mind
FeaturedKadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United StatesIn this special talk, Gen Demo will guide us on how to practically apply Buddha’s Training the Mind techniques in daily life to discover powerful tools to handle life’s challenges […]
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Christmas Eve Candlelit Service
FeaturedKadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United StatesJoin us for a meaningful, spiritual evening at Kadampa Meditation Center. We’ll begin by lighting a candle with a special intention for our life, our family and the world. This will be followed a short guided meditation and talk with the Buddhist nun Gen Kelsang Demo and refreshments. May everyone be happy. May […]
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Evening Talk with Kadam Trina: Reflecting on 2025 from a Spiritual POV
FeaturedKadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United StatesReflecting on 2025 from a spiritual point of view. Transforming our past. Opening new doors for our future.
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Clarity & Concentration Weekend Silent Retreat
FeaturedKadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United StatesEnjoy 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 […]
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Intro Talk: Clarity & Concentration Weekend Silent Retreat
FeaturedKadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United StatesEnjoy 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 […]
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Vajrayogini Self Initiation: Feast of Great Bliss (HYT Required)
FeaturedKadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United StatesHighest 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 […]
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Blissful Heart: Highest Yoga Tantra Retreat
FeaturedKadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United StatesOnly 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 […]
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Intro Talk: Blissful Heart - Highest Yoga Tantra Retreat
FeaturedKadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United StatesOnly 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 […]
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Journey to Peace Retreat: meditations on the stages of the path to enlightenment
FeaturedKadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United StatesTime 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 […]
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Intro Talk: Journey To Peace Retreat
FeaturedKadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United StatesTime 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 […]
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Offering to the Spiritual Guide
Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United StatesBeautiful traditional chanted prayers and offerings to become close to and receive the powerful blessings of our Spiritual Guide. This preliminary practice for Vajrayana Mahamudra is at the very heart of Kadampa Buddhist practice of the union of Sutra and Tantra. Everyone welcome.
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Open House & Pancake Breakfast
FeaturedKadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United StatesJoin 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
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Thursday Evening Meditation Class: Meditation Made Easy
Featured Thursday Evening Meditation ClassesKadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United StatesIn these Thursday evening classes we learn Buddhist meditation practices and understandings to grow our own joyful meditation practice and experience real inner peace. Everyone is welcome!
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Center Cherishing Day
FeaturedKadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United StatesCleaning Practice at the Temple. Come and join us as we prepare for the Northwest Dharma Celebration Feb 28 - March 1.
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Coeur D' Alene - Library Talk
FeaturedKadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United StatesMeditation 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, […]
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Powa Ceremony: Special Prayers for the Recently Deceased
Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United StatesBeautiful and meaningful prayers to the Buddha of Compassion for those who have recently died. Includes the Buddhist meditation known as "transference of consciousness" for the deceased. Everyone welcome.















