Meditation in Westchester
Vajra Light Kadampa Buddhist Center is a non-profit Buddhist meditation center in Westchester, NY. We offer instruction in meditation and Buddhist spiritual practice through meditation classes, retreats and special events. Taught by qualified Western teachers, Vajra Light's meditation classes are very easy to understand and apply to our daily lives. The classes are suitable for both beginners and more advanced meditation practitioners. Everyone welcome!
Where to Start
All of the classes listed below are a great place to start for both beginners and experienced meditators.
Classes are especially designed to help busy, modern people find more inner peace and happiness. No prior experience with Buddhism or meditation is necessary. Everyone is welcome! Please follow the links to individual class pages for more details about the current topics and pricing.
Sunday Mornings
10:30am -12:00pm
Stop Suffering, Start Living
With Kadam Donna Campanelli
Even in our best efforts to experience happiness, it seems that at present, we find ourselves constantly encountering one difficulty after another, consuming much of our time and energy. The first step towards attaining authentic lasting happiness is to develop the actual wish to do so, which means we need to discover how our current approach to life keeps binding us tightly to suffering.
In this series we will continue our journey through Buddha’s ‘stages of the path to enlightenment’ by looking at the meditations concerning Buddha’s Four Noble Truths, Buddha’s very first teachings.
Everyone welcome; suitable for both beginners and experienced meditators.
Wednesday Evenings
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Awakening Our Spiritual Potential
WITH Kadam Donna Campanelli
If you could, wouldn’t you want to increase your inner strength, your love, and your happiness? Not to mention your resilience, compassion, confidence, and wisdom? At times we may possess some of these qualities, yet we also continue to experience unhappiness, anger, anxiety, insecurity, etc.
According to Buddha, these positive qualities are actually natural to our mind. They are part of our spiritual potential that we have the power to cultivate to their fullest potential.
Everyone welcome; suitable for both beginners and experienced meditators.
Friday Mornings in Nyack
10:30 - 11:45am
How to Change Negative Patterns of Thought
WITH HEATHER CHERNACK
NYACK LIBRARY
59 S. BROADWAY
NYACK, NY 10960
IN THE COMMUNITY MEETING ROOM
Happiness and suffering are merely states of mind. So if we are to experience the happiness we all long for we must learn how to connect with that state of mind and not the ones that cause us so much pain.
Part of this process entails identifying our negative patterns of thought so that we can begin to learn to let them go. This will allow us to actively replace those painful thoughts with the positive states of mind that lead to happiness.
Special Events
2024 Northeast Dharma Celebration
Wisdom, Compassion & Spiritual Power
Blessing Empowerment of Je Tsongkhapa & Teachings on the Migtsema Prayer
April 26 - 28
with Kadam Morten clausen, Eastern US National Spiritual Director
Kadampa Meditation Center
47 Sweeney Rd
Glen Spey, NY 12737
What are the essential qualities of an enlightened being’s mind Wisdom, compassion and spiritual power.
Do we have the potential to develop these wonderful and beneficial qualities within our own minds? Yes, most definitely.
The key practice that Kadampa Buddhist practitioners have been using for centuries to accomplish these is reliance upon the Wisdom Buddha Je Tsongkhapa and the recitation of his legendary mantra, known as the Migtsema Prayer.
Kadam Morten Clausen
Kadam Donna Campanelli & Gen Kelsang Chogyop
SAVE THE DATE!
The Source of Happiness & Goodness
Weekend Retreat at Kadampa Meditation Center New York
WITH KADAM DONNA CAMPANELLI & GEN CHOGYOP
FRIDAY, JUNE 7 – SUNDAY, JUNE 9
Kadampa Meditation Center New York
47 Sweeney Rd
Glen Spey, NY 12737
Kadampa Meditation Center New York
Join us for our first ever community weekend retreat, a collaborative effort by Vajra Light, Menlha KMC and Dharmachakra Centers. This event not only provides the chance to receive teachings and engage in meditation but also offers the opportunity to connect with fellow practitioners from Vajra Light and the surrounding region. This retereat will be led by Kadam Donna and Gen Chogyp, the resident teacher at Menlha KMC and Dharmachakra KBC.
Booking Opens April 8 at 8:00am (EDT)!
2024 NKT IKBU International Fall Festival
The Gateway To Highest Yoga Tantra
Highest Yoga Tantra Empowerments
of Heruka & Vajrayogini & Commentary
WITH GEN-LA KELSANG DEKYONG, GENERAL SPIRITUAL DIRECTOR OF NKT IKBU
OCTOBER 25 - NOVEMBER 4 - AT KMC BRAZIL
As Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche explains in Modern Buddhism, the gateway through which we enter Tantra is receiving a Tantric empowerment. This bestows upon us special blessings that heal our mental continuum and awaken our Buddha nature. In this Festival Gen-la Dekyong will grant the empowerments of the principal Deities of Highest Yoga Tantra – Heruka and Vajrayogini – and introduce their essential practices.
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