How to Live a Spiritual Life
Following the Buddhist Path of Going for Refuge
Half-Day Course with Gen Kelsang Thekchen
Living a spiritual life means solving our problems and finding happiness from within. To do this, we need to develop and maintain an experience of inner peace through spiritual practice – recognizing, reducing and eventually abandoning our negative disturbed states of mind and increasing our positive peaceful states. These positive, peaceful states of mind such as love, compassion and wisdom are our inner refuge.
In order to develop these spiritual realizations, Buddhists go for refuge to the Three Jewels: Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. We first go for refuge to Buddha, a fully Enlightened being who teaches us how to train and inspire our mind. Dharma refers to Buddha’s teachings and the resultant inner spiritual realizations. Sangha are our spiritual friends who encourage us and show a good example for us to follow. This half-day course will explore these three sources of refuge, Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. By going for refuge to the Three Jewels, we will live a profound spiritual life.
This half-day course is introducing the annual refuge retreat happening from June 25th to 28th. Even though this retreat is part of the commitments of the Teacher Training Programme, it is suitable for everyone! Click here for more information on this retreat.
** Accommodation is available for this event. Please visit the Accommodation page for more information and to submit a request. **
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This event is taking place at:
Kadampa Meditation Centre Canada
631 Crawford St. Toronto ON M6G 3K1 -
Saturday, June 24, 2023
1:30 p.m: Doors open
2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m: Teaching & Meditation
3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m: Refreshments
3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m: Teaching & Meditation -
Gen Kelsang Thekchen, is a senior Teacher in the New Kadampa Tradition - International Kadampa Buddhist Union (NKT-IKBU). He began practising Kadam Dharma in Toronto in 1995 and has been a Kadampa monk and Teacher under the guidance of Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche for 24 years.
He has been the Resident Teacher at Kuluta Buddhist Centre in Kingston, at Kadampa Meditation Centre Canada as the National Spiritual Director, at Kadampa Meditation Centre Vancouver as well established Kadampa Centres, Madhyamaka KMC and Bodhisattva KMC in the UK.
He is well known for his ability to present Buddha’s teachings in a simple, practical and often humorous way, making them easy to put into practice in everyday life.
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Regular: $40 / person
Class pass holders: -50% for class pass holders ($20 / person)
(click here for more information about the monthly class pass)How to book: You can book in advance via our website or simply drop in and register upon arrival. Pre-registration is encouraged to allow a smoother registration process and decrease your wait time at the door. Doors will open 30 minutes before the start of the event.
To book in advance, click on the booking button below and fill out the booking form. At the end of the booking process, you will receive an email confirming your booking.
Promo code: If you are a class pass holder, you may enter your promo code at the top of the booking form to get your discount.
Your promo code has been given to you when you first signed up to become a class pass holder.
It is the letters in the first part of your email address (before the @), excluding dots ( . ), hyphens ( - ) or underscore ( _ ) and with a maximum of 16 digits.
Payment methods: For pre-registration via our website, we accept credit cards. For registration on site upon arrival, we accept cash, debit and credit cards.
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Accommodation is available for this event. For more information and to submit a request, please click here.
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If you have any questions or booking inquiries, please email: registration@kadampa.ca