Sundays, 4-6pm and 7-9pm

Everyone wants to be happy and no one wants to suffer but very few people understand the real causes of happiness and suffering. Happiness is a state of mind, so the real source of happiness must lie within the mind. If our mind is positive and peaceful, we shall be happy, regardless of our external circumstances, but if it is negative and unpeaceful we can never be truly happy.

Join Kelsang Dao, resident teacher at the Kadampa Meditation Center New York as she explains:

~ how to identify and abandon our negative states of mind (delusions) such as anger and desirous attachment and as a result experience real happiness

~ what happens when we die and afterwards, and how to have a peaceful death and rebirth.

KMC NY offers a Foundation Program based on two classes a week: Sundays, 4:00-6:00pm & 7:00-9:00pm. A delicious vegetarian supper is served between the two classes.

The class is currently studying Joyful Path of Good Fortune.

About the Program

The purpose of the Foundation Program is to provide a systematic presentation of particular subjects of Mahayana Buddhism to enable practitioners to deepen their knowledge and experience of Buddhism.

The Program comprises the following five subjects based on Buddha's Sutra teachings and the corresponding commentaries by
Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso:

1. The Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, based on the commentary Joyful Path of Good Fortune

2. Training the Mind, based on the commentaries Universal Compassion and Eight Steps To Happiness

3. The Heart Sutra, based on the commentary Heart of Wisdom

4. Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, based on the commentary Meaningful to Behold

5. Types of Mind, based on the commentary Understanding the Mind

For more information call (845) 856 9000 (1.877.KADAMPA - toll free) or e-mail: info@kadampaus.org.