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Transforming Pain and Anger into Empowerment

What is our response to the suffering and cruelty we see all around us in our world? Discouragement, fear, grief, rage? When we find ourselves caught up in painful, overwhelmed minds is there anything that we can do?

Yes!

In this half-day course Gen Menla will explain and guide meditations on the truly astonishing practice known  as “transforming adverse conditions into the path”.  This is the practice we all need right now. Through this training, rather than feeling discouraged or enraged by all the problems and pain we see around us, and within us, we discover a capacity to turn that negativity around and to actually use it to empower our mind for positive change. The result is that instead of feeling stuck and helpless, we gain an inner ability to transform suffering into powerful, positive states of mind, such as love, compassion, wisdom and joy. This power enables us to not only grow spiritually, but also to create a deeply positive effect on those around us and even our world.

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UPCOMING COURSES, RETREAT AND SPECIAL EVENTS

Queens 9.26.26

No Morning Meditation on the Waterfront (Queens Branch)

Saturday September 19
9:00am – 9:45pm
with Jason Cheung

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CHANGE OF LOCATION FOR OPEN-AIR MEDITATION

Saturday, September 25
3:00 – 5:00 pm
with Kadam Morten

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The Fundamentals of Buddhist Meditation

Saturday, September 26
10:00am – 1:30pm + Q&A
with Doug Cuomo

Impermanence@2x

Emptiness & Subtle Impermanence: A Deep Dive

Saturday, October 3
10:00am – 3:30pm
with Kadam Morten

Fall Fest@2x

Fall Festival 2026

October 9-15
Kadampa Meditation Center Spain
Malaga, Spain

Silent Retreat@2x

Halloween Silent Retreat

Saturday, October 31
10:00am – 1:15pm
with Alex Bonano

Country Retreat

COUNTRY RETREAT – HEALING THE PAST THROUGH EMPTINESS

Friday, November 6-Sunday, November 8
Temple for World Peace, Glen Spey
with Kadam Morten

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Green Tara Empowerment

Saturday December 5 & Sunday December 6
2 sessions per day
with Kadam Morten