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Heart-centred Living
Get away from the stress of a busy life and learn to access and experience the deep peace and tranquility within your own mind.
The focus of the retreat is meditation on love. We all have within us the capacity to love others in a way that brings joy and happiness, and Buddhist teachings have inspiring and practical methods to help us develop that capacity. All our relationships benefit as a result, / this has a beneficial impact on all our relationships, at home and at work.
A weekend retreat allows us to go deeper into our experience of meditation without the distractions of daily life, to really see what is going on in our mind and to take the teachings deep into our heart. The quiet and peaceful environment of Loon Lake Retreat Centre is the perfect place to immerse ourself in meditation so that we feel refreshed, energized and ready to take on the world.
Each session will include guided meditation and Buddhist teachings on developing a joyful loving good heart. There will be plenty of time between sessions to enjoy the forest and lake walks, so that you can return home feeling truly rested and relaxed.
Loving others is principally an attitude of mind. We cannot physically care for everyone, but we can develop a caring attitude towards all beings.
- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, How to Transform Your Life
Retreat Venue
Loon Lake Lodge and Retreat Centre
14500 Silver Valley Road,
Maple Ridge, BC V4R 2R3
Retreat Timetable
Friday 29th
7:30–8:45pm Session 1
Saturday 30th
9:00–10:15am Session 2
11:00–12:15pm Session 3
4:30–5:45pm Session 4
7:30–8:45pm Session 5
Sunday 1st
9:00–10:15am Session 6
11:00–12:15pm Session 7
PRICING AND REGISTRATION
Members, shared room (two twin beds): $420
Members, single room: $675
Non Member, shared room (two twin beds): $520
Non Member, single room: $775
Prices are all inclusive - teachings, accommodation, meals, and snacks.
HOW TO REGISTER
You can register using the buttons below. Please note the following:
* contact registrar@kmcfv.ca for further information if you wish to register for an option that is unavailable
* please bring your own linens and toiletries: sheets, blankets (or a sleeping bag), pillows, towels, shampoo, etc…
* please contact registrar@kmcfv.ca for any dietary restrictions, allergies, or other special needs, or if you wish to share a room with a specific registrant…we will do our best to accommodate your needs, or we will let you know if we are unable to do so…thank you!
About the Teachers
Gen Kelsang Delek and Gen Kelsang Sanden, who are the Teachers at the Kadampa Meditation Centres in Vancouver and Fraser Valley, will be leading this retreat.
They are senior Teachers in the Kadampa Tradition much appreciated for their joyful, practical approach to Buddha’s teachings, with many years of experience practising and teaching between them.
Clarity of Mind - a silent retreat
Our mind’s true nature is like a clear sky, but so often it’s clouded by our busy, uncontrolled and sometimes negative thoughts.
In this one day retreat we will engage in meditations from the Buddhist Mahamudra tradition, leading to an experience of our spacious, peaceful, blue sky mind. Gen Delek will explain how to eliminate distractions and engage in clear and joyful meditations.
What a great way to prepare for the holiday season ahead!
This retreat is suitable for everyone - Buddhist, non-Buddhist, beginners and those with some experience of meditation. Everyone is welcome and will benefit from this day retreat!
To help us let go of our busy external world, settle our mind, and get the most out of this precious time on retreat, we will keep silence inside the building throughout the day.
Cost
$50 for non-members
$20 for members
Includes lunch and refreshments
Schedule
Session 1: 10:00 – 11:00am
Session 2: 11:30am – 12:30pm
Lunch: 12:30 – 2:00pm
Session 3: 2:00 – 3:00pm
About the Teacher
Gen Kelsang Delek, the Resident Teacher of KMC Vancouver, is a senior Teacher in the New Kadampa Tradition – International Kadampa Buddhist Union (NKT-IKBU). She has been a Kadampa Buddhist nun and Teacher under the guidance of her Spiritual Guide, Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche, for almost 30 years and has been the Resident Teacher at Kadampa Centres in Canada, Japan and the UK.
Pure Heart of Compassion
Buddha Avalokiteshvara is the embodiment of the compassion of all enlightened beings. Through sincerely engaging in Buddha Avalokiteshvara's brief and powerful meditation practice we can gradually awaken our compassionate Buddha nature. We can solve our own daily problems by controlling our delusions, and then from this state we can bring so much extraordinary benefit to our family, our community and our world.
An empowerment is a guided Tantric meditation that harnesses wisdom, imagination and the power of enlightened beings to take us to pure worlds and pure experiences. It bestows upon us special blessings that heal our mental continuum and awaken our Buddha nature. During this special new year course, Gen Delek will grant the blessing empowerment of Avalokiteshvara and give the transmission of the mantra, followed by teachings on how to integrate this practice into our daily lives and a retreat on Avalokiteshvara practice.
Cost
Empowerment, commentary and retreat:
$75 for non-members
$50 for members
Schedule
Tuesday, December 31st
7:00-9:00pm – Empowerment
Wednesday, January 1st
11:00-12:30pm – Commentary to Avalokiteshvara practice
2:00-3:00pm – Retreat
3:30-4:30pm – Retreat
About the Teacher
Gen Kelsang Delek, the Resident Teacher of KMC Vancouver, is a senior Teacher in the New Kadampa Tradition – International Kadampa Buddhist Union (NKT-IKBU). She has been a Kadampa Buddhist nun and Teacher under the guidance of her Spiritual Guide, Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche, for almost 30 years and has been the Resident Teacher at Kadampa Centres in Canada, Japan and the UK.
New Year’s Eve Celebration
A New Year’s Eve with a difference! Bring in the new year with prayers to the Buddha of Compassion, Avalokiteshvara, and simple mantra recitation. Everyone is invited to light a candle and make their own personal prayers for the new year.
This is open to everyone, Buddhist, non-Buddhist, beginners and more experienced. Everyone is welcome!
Schedule
10:00-11:00pm: Refreshments
11:00pm - 12:15am: Avalokiteshvara prayers & candle lighting
Cost
$20 Non-members
FREE for Members
About the Teacher
Gen Kelsang Delek, the Resident Teacher of KMC Vancouver, is a senior Teacher in the New Kadampa Tradition – International Kadampa Buddhist Union (NKT-IKBU). She has been a Kadampa Buddhist nun and Teacher under the guidance of her Spiritual Guide, Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche, for almost 30 years and has been the Resident Teacher at Kadampa Centres in Canada, Japan and the UK.
Liberation from Sorrow: Prayers to Buddha Arya Tara
At Kadampa Centers worldwide, the eighth of the month is Tara Day. This month due to the Tara empowerment on the 8th in Aldergrove, we are doing our usual practice in Vancouver on the 9th.
Tara is a female Buddha, whose name means “Rescuer.” She is the embodiment of swift compassion. If we rely upon Tara sincerely and with strong faith, she will protect us from all obstacles and fulfill all our wishes.
Everyone is welcome and invited to join us for Tara’s chanted prayer practice, Liberation from Sorrow.
Wishfulfilling Jewel with Tsog
Chanted Prayers, or pujas, are an important component of training in a spiritual life and are held at our Centre in Vancouver throughout the week. They help us to still our mind, connect with enlightened beings, and receive blessings.
Prayer booklets are available in the meditation room and can also be purchased in our bookstore. If you would like to make a monetary tsog offering you can do so by making a donation.
These prayers practices are free from charge and are available by live-stream for members . No previous experience needed and you do not need to be a Buddhist to attend. Everyone is welcome!
What is Wishfulfilling Jewel? An inspiring prayer practice to develop our wisdom, compassion and spiritual protection for the benefit of all living beings.
Wishfulfilling Jewel is the heart essence of Kadampa Buddhism. In the first part we visualize our Spiritual Guide as Je Tsongkhapa and make prayers and requests to purify negativity, accumulate merit, and receive blessings. This prepares our mind for prayers on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, and to our Dharma Protector, Dorje Shugden. Through this we can overcome obstacles to our practice and create favorable conditions so that we can nurture and increase our pure Dharma realizations.
This practice includes a special tsog (or food) offering. Traditionally, those who wish, bring a vegetarian food offering.
Heart Jewel
A special Guru yoga of Je Tsongkhapa combined with the condensed sadhana of his Dharma Protector and a short 20-minute mediation. This puja includes two practices revealed by the Wisdom Buddha Manjushri. The first is a special Guru yoga in which we visualize our Spiritual Guide as Je Tsongkhapa, who himself is a manifestation of Manjushri.
By relying upon this practice, we can purify negativity, accumulate merit, and receive blessings. In this way, we will naturally accomplish all the realizations of the stages of the path of Sutra and Tantra, and in particular we will attain a very special Dharma wisdom.
Heart Jewel
A special Guru yoga of Je Tsongkhapa combined with the condensed sadhana of his Dharma Protector and a short 20-minute mediation. This puja includes two practices revealed by the Wisdom Buddha Manjushri. The first is a special Guru yoga in which we visualize our Spiritual Guide as Je Tsongkhapa, who himself is a manifestation of Manjushri.
By relying upon this practice, we can purify negativity, accumulate merit, and receive blessings. In this way, we will naturally accomplish all the realizations of the stages of the path of Sutra and Tantra, and in particular we will attain a very special Dharma wisdom.
Heart Jewel
A special Guru yoga of Je Tsongkhapa combined with the condensed sadhana of his Dharma Protector and a short 20-minute mediation. This puja includes two practices revealed by the Wisdom Buddha Manjushri. The first is a special Guru yoga in which we visualize our Spiritual Guide as Je Tsongkhapa, who himself is a manifestation of Manjushri.
By relying upon this practice, we can purify negativity, accumulate merit, and receive blessings. In this way, we will naturally accomplish all the realizations of the stages of the path of Sutra and Tantra, and in particular we will attain a very special Dharma wisdom.
International Fall Festival
The Gateway to Highest Yoga Tantra
Highest Yoga Tantra Empowerments of Heruka & Vajrayogini & Commentary with Gen-la Kelsang Dekyong
Held at Kadampa Meditation Center 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.
This is a rare and wonderful opportunity to receive from Gen-la Dekyong the Highest Yoga Tantra empowerments and teachings of Heruka and Vajrayogini according to the Ganden Oral Lineage, which is the special heart treasure of her Spiritual Guide, Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche.
Visit KMC Brazil
Fall Festival 2024 will be an opportunity to make a pilgrimage to one of our modern-day holy Kadampa sites, the largest World Peace Temple of our tradition and the blessed location of teachings given by Venerable Geshe-la in 2010.
Attending in-person and online
In addition to attending the live in-person event, there will also be an opportunity to join the Festival teachings online. Teaching and meditation sessions only will be streamed 48 hours after the live session. The Highest Yoga Tantra empowerments are not available online.
Teachings on Quick Path to Great Bliss
Quick Path to Great Bliss Class
Tuesday Mornings 7:00 – 8:30am
FREE for members | $15 non-members |Pay at the door
Quick Path to Great Bliss is the extensive self-generation practice of Vajrayogini, the female enlightened Deity of Highest Yoga Tantra who is the manifestation of the wisdom of all Buddhas.
In this class we will study authentic instructions on this practice such as those found in the commentary New Guide to Dakini Land. Quick Path to Great Bliss is suitable both for our regular daily practice and for retreat; and we can practice it alone or in a group.
By relying on this practice sincerely, with a good heart and a mind of faith, it is definitely possible to attain full enlightenment; but to accomplish such results we must practice this sadhana regularly.
This class is open only to those who have received the Highest Yoga Tantra empowerments from the New Kadampa Tradition. If you have not received this empowerment please join us for another puja, such as Wishfulfilling Jewel with Lamrim Meditation.
About the Teacher
Gen Kelsang Sanden is a Canadian Buddhist monk, and the Resident Teacher of Kadampa Meditation Centre Vancouver. He has been a long time student of Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, the founder of the New Kadampa Tradition. He is well loved for his compassion, sense of humour and the clarity of his teachings.
Wishfulfilling Jewel with Tsog
Chanted Prayers, or pujas, are an important component of training in a spiritual life and are held at our Centre in Vancouver throughout the week. They help us to still our mind, connect with enlightened beings, and receive blessings.
Prayer booklets are available in the meditation room and can also be purchased in our bookstore. If you would like to make a monetary tsog offering you can do so by making a donation.
These prayers practices are free from charge and are available by live-stream for members . No previous experience needed and you do not need to be a Buddhist to attend. Everyone is welcome!
What is Wishfulfilling Jewel? An inspiring prayer practice to develop our wisdom, compassion and spiritual protection for the benefit of all living beings.
Wishfulfilling Jewel is the heart essence of Kadampa Buddhism. In the first part we visualize our Spiritual Guide as Je Tsongkhapa and make prayers and requests to purify negativity, accumulate merit, and receive blessings. This prepares our mind for prayers on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, and to our Dharma Protector, Dorje Shugden. Through this we can overcome obstacles to our practice and create favorable conditions so that we can nurture and increase our pure Dharma realizations.
This practice includes a special tsog (or food) offering. Traditionally, those who wish, bring a vegetarian food offering.
Heart Jewel
Chanted Prayers, or pujas, are an important component of training in a spiritual life and are held at our Centre in Vancouver throughout the week. They help us to still our mind, connect with enlightened beings, and receive blessings.
Prayer booklets are available in the meditation room and can also be purchased in our bookstore.
All pujas are free of charge and open to the public. No previous experience needed and you do not need to be a Buddhist to attend. Everyone is welcome!
Heart Jewel is a special Guru yoga practice of Je Tsongkhapa combined with the condensed sadhana of his Dharma Protector and a short 20-minute mediation. This puja includes two practices revealed by the Wisdom Buddha Manjushri. The first is a special Guru yoga in which we visualize our Spiritual Guide as Je Tsongkhapa, who himself is a manifestation of Manjushri.
By relying upon this practice, we can purify negativity, accumulate merit, and receive blessings. In this way, we will naturally accomplish all the realizations of the stages of the path of Sutra and Tantra, and in particular we will attain a very special Dharma wisdom.
Keys to Successful Meditation
Saturday, October 19th @ 10am-1pm
Do you feel that your meditation practice isn’t really progressing? Do you struggle to maintain your practice amidst the busyness of daily life? Is it difficult to improve your concentration? This course will help you to overcome such obstacles and create an effective and joyful meditation practice.
Gaining deep inner experience of meditation depends upon certain inner conditions. Just as we need to prepare the ground before we plant seeds in a garden, so we need to prepare our mind if we are to enjoy the fruits of our meditation practice. If our mind is burdened with too much negativity, or if it lacks inner power, and if we’re not receiving the empowering inspiration of enlightened beings our progress will be limited.
Josh will show how we can remove these obstacles so that our mind is clear and strong. He will explain the practices of purifying negativity, accumulating merit, and receiving the inspiring blessings of enlightened beings, which are essential for a confident and joyful meditation practice.
Everyone is welcome to attend this course, regardless of previous experience.
Cost
$35 for non-members
Free for members
Schedule
Session 1: 10:00 – 11:15am
Break
Session 2: 11:45am – 1:00pm
About the Teacher
Josh Baker has been practising Kadampa Buddhism for more than 15 years, and often teaches meditation classes at KMC Vancouver. He is known for his kind and gentle delivery of Dharma teachings and for his faith and enthusiasm for Kadam Dharma. Josh lives in Vancouver with his wife and daughter.
Teachings on Quick Path to Great Bliss
Quick Path to Great Bliss Class
Tuesday Mornings 7:00 – 8:30am
FREE for members | $15 non-members |Pay at the door
Quick Path to Great Bliss is the extensive self-generation practice of Vajrayogini, the female enlightened Deity of Highest Yoga Tantra who is the manifestation of the wisdom of all Buddhas.
In this class we will study authentic instructions on this practice such as those found in the commentary New Guide to Dakini Land. Quick Path to Great Bliss is suitable both for our regular daily practice and for retreat; and we can practice it alone or in a group.
By relying on this practice sincerely, with a good heart and a mind of faith, it is definitely possible to attain full enlightenment; but to accomplish such results we must practice this sadhana regularly.
This class is open only to those who have received the Highest Yoga Tantra empowerments from the New Kadampa Tradition. If you have not received this empowerment please join us for another puja, such as Wishfulfilling Jewel with Lamrim Meditation.
About the Teacher
Gen Kelsang Sanden is a Canadian Buddhist monk, and the Resident Teacher of Kadampa Meditation Centre Vancouver. He has been a long time student of Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, the founder of the New Kadampa Tradition. He is well loved for his compassion, sense of humour and the clarity of his teachings.
Wishfulfilling Jewel with Tsog
Chanted Prayers, or pujas, are an important component of training in a spiritual life and are held at our Centre in Vancouver throughout the week. They help us to still our mind, connect with enlightened beings, and receive blessings.
Prayer booklets are available in the meditation room and can also be purchased in our bookstore. If you would like to make a monetary tsog offering you can do so by making a donation.
These prayers practices are free from charge and are available by live-stream for members . No previous experience needed and you do not need to be a Buddhist to attend. Everyone is welcome!
What is Wishfulfilling Jewel? An inspiring prayer practice to develop our wisdom, compassion and spiritual protection for the benefit of all living beings.
Wishfulfilling Jewel is the heart essence of Kadampa Buddhism. In the first part we visualize our Spiritual Guide as Je Tsongkhapa and make prayers and requests to purify negativity, accumulate merit, and receive blessings. This prepares our mind for prayers on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, and to our Dharma Protector, Dorje Shugden. Through this we can overcome obstacles to our practice and create favorable conditions so that we can nurture and increase our pure Dharma realizations.
This practice includes a special tsog (or food) offering. Traditionally, those who wish, bring a vegetarian food offering.