This event occurs in the past. See below for our upcoming courses, retreats and special events.
Celebrating Our Interdependence
A Half-day Retreat
This retreat will be an opportunity to deepen our meditative experience of the teachings offered during the Monday night General Program series in June, A Love Less Ordinary. To attend this retreat it is not required that you attended the course.
Now that we are shifting back to actual face-to-face relationships, what better time to see if we can’t improve those relationships? In addition to face-to-face, how about heart-to-heart?
Although we always seek happiness in our close relationships, so many of those relationships wind up burdened with too much of the opposite: Unhappiness. According to Buddha this is because we often confuse desirous attachment for love. Desirous attachment is a deluded, unpeaceful state of mind that sees the other people as our source of happiness, and consequently expects these people to make us happy. But it is a con job. Happiness doesn’t come from other people. It comes from our own mind. Desirous attachment undermines our love for family, friends and others, making those relationships ordinary and setting us up for dissatisfaction and conflict again and again.
In this series, we will learn how to recognize and reduce our desirous attachment and to replace it with an authentic love that actually does reveal pure happiness. We will experience a love less ordinary and discover how all our relationships can become extraordinary – extraordinary and crucial components of an extraordinary life.
Everyone welcome
UPCOMING COURSES, RETREAT AND SPECIAL EVENTS
The Annual Northeast Dharma Celebration
April 26-28
Temple for World Peace, Glen Spey
with Kadam Morten
International Kadampa Spring Festival 2024
Accomplishing the Great Wisdom Protection
May 24-29
with Gen-la Kelsang Jampa
A Special OSG Puja Celebrating Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Tuesday, June 4
6:45 – 9:00pm
Everybody welcome!
International Kadampa Summer Festival 2024
Profound Teachings from Buddha’s Heart
July 26 – August 10
with Gen-la Dekyong and Gen-la Kelsang Jampa
KMC NYC Annual Country Retreat, with Kadam Morten
Friday, August 30 – Monday, September 2
Temple for World Peace, Glen Spey
with Kadam Morten