Kadampa Meditation Center Florida
Kadampa Meditation Center Florida is a Kadampa Buddhist Meditation Center located near downtown Sarasota. Open to everyone, the Center offers meditation classes, day courses, study programs, and retreats helping us to solve our problems through applying Buddha's teachings to our daily lives. The center also provides meditation classes in Sarasota and the surrounding areas including Bradenton, Venice, Lakewood Ranch, and Anna Maria Island.
Clarity of Mind Day Retreat
with Western Buddhist Teacher Luis Villalon
"when the turbulence of distracting thoughts subsides an inner peace and clarity arises naturally from within"
Within our mind is the potential to experience great peace and clarity. In this one day retreat we will explore the nature of our mind and how to develop an experience of it's natural clarity and power.
Malas and Mantras Day Workshop
Everyone Welcome!
Learn about the meaning of Buddhist mantra and how to engage in mantra recitation using a mala. There will also be an opportunity to learn how to string your own mala and use it for your own personal practice.
Kadampa Meditation Center Florida was founded by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso and is a member of the New Kadampa Tradition - International Kadampa Buddhist Union (NKT-IKBU) a global network of over one thousand centers and groups around the world.
You are welcome to visit the center, spend time in our beautiful meditation room, or browse in our bookstore and gift shop.
Meditation Classes with Gen Demo and others at KMC Florida
Every Sunday 10:00-11:30am
Dharma for Discouragement - Developing Pure Confidence
Every Tuesday 7:30 - 9:00pm
Lunchtime Meditation: Simply Meditate
Every Wednesday 12:15-12:45pm
Stop the Week: A Practical Guide to Meditation
Every Friday 6:30 - 7:30 pm
Everyone is Welcome
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Excerpt from Transform your Life:"We need others for our physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Without others we are nothing. Our sense that we are an island, an independent, self-sufficient individual, bears no relation to reality. It is closer to the truth to picture ourself as a cell in the vast body of life, distinct yet intimately bound up with all living beings. We cannot exist without others, and they in turn are affected by everything we do. The idea that it is possible to secure our own welfare whilst neglecting that of others, or even at the expense of others, is completely unrealistic."