with Kadam Morten

at the Kadampa Meditation Center NYC
127 W. 24th Street (between 6th & 7th Ave, entrance on street level)

Avalokiteshvara is the Buddha of Enlightened Compassion. The empowerment is a blissful, guided meditation and special practice through which we connect with Avalokieshvara and receive powerful inspiring blessings.

We may think that too much focus on compassion will make us unhappy. However when experienced correctly, compassion is joyful mind and there is nothing more powerful than it. It joyfully motivates us to help others and consequently empowers us to change and improve ourselves. Compassion for our family and friends will heal our close relationships and make them strong and stable. The more we open our hearts to others, the more our empathy will grow. In this way we develop universal compassion, the most humane and beneficial mind of all, and the springboard from which enlightenment will arise.

Our present compassion, however limited at the moment, is our Buddha Nature, our seed of enlightenment, our limitless potential. Receiving the empowerment activates this seed. Learning to integrate the practice of the Avalokiteshvara into our daily life enables our life to become a joyful path to enlightenment and an enormous source of benefit and happiness to others.

Kadam Morten will grant the empowerment and give the commentary to the brief but powerful practice of Avalokiteshvara, emphasizing the practical application of these profound and heart opening methods to our lives. Everyone is welcome.

Saturday, June 15

• 10:00am–12:30pm       Empowerment
• 2:00–4:00pm                Commentary

Sunday, June 16

• 10:30am–12:00pm      Further Commentary
• 12:30–1:30pm              Concluding Meditation Session

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