Welcome to Vajravarahi Meditation Center
Vajravarahi Meditation Center is a Kadampa Buddhist Meditation Center on Long Island, New York. Located in Hampton Bays, the Center provides meditation classes and teachings on the Eastern end of Long Island.
Taught by qualified Western teachers, the 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, and emphasize how to meditate and practice in the environment of our modern daily life.
Meditation can help you to:
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Reduce stress and tension
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Reduce our frustration and anger
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Increase our happiness and inner peace
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Develop a calm and peaceful mind
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Overcome the minds of anxiety and depression
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Improve our relationships with others
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Increase our inner wisdom
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Improve the quality of our life
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Let go of the causes of our pain and
dissatisfaction
Northeast Dharma Celebration KMC- NY
Oct 1-3 2010
Registration now open- click on picture for more information
Fall Festival 2010
October 22 - 29
Booking Now Open - click on image
The Official Opening of the Kadampa Buddhist Temple at KMC Brazil. The Empowerment and Commentary to the practice of Je Tsongkhapa, and the blessing transmission of Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom.
The Festival will begin on Friday October 22 with a special Wishfulfilling Jewel puja with tsog offering led by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, marking the Official Opening of the Kadampa Buddhist Temple at KMC Brazil.
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Meditation in Hampton Bays
Current Classes & Courses
Come and experience a different side of Vajravarahi Meditation Center!
Sundays - Open 9:30am-12:30pm
9:30-10:15am
Prayers for Meditation-Heart Hewel
10:30-11:45am
Meditation Class
Happiness is Easy- Sept 5, 12
The Four Noble Truths - Sept 19, 26, Oct 3, 10, 17
Mondays - Open 12-1:30pm and 3:00pm
12:15-12:45pm
Lunchtime Meditation
Tuesdays - Open 12-1pm
6:30-6:50pm
Prayers for Meditation
7-8:15pm
Meditation Class
How to Solve Our Human Problems- Sept 7, 14, 21, 28, Oct 5, 12, 19, 26
Wednesdays- Open 8:30-1pm
9-9:30am
Morning Meditation
12:15-12:45pm
Lunchtime Meditation
Thursdays - Open 12-1pm
12-12:45pm
Lunchtime Meditation
Friday Evenings 7-7:45pm
Heart Jewel Chanted Prayers
This practice 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 a meditation on Stages of the Path to Enlightenment. After the meditation we make prayers to our Dharma Protector, Dorje Shugdän. Through this we can overcome obstacles to our practice and create favorable conditions so that we can nurture and increase our pure Dharma realizations.
Free
Saturdays- Open 10:30-11:30am
10:45-11:15am
Morning Meditation
Saturday October 2
8:00-8:30 am
Sunrise Beach Meditation with Charlene
Come join us for a gentle start to the day with meditation at Circle Beach Sag Harbor
Special Meditation Courses
Saturday Sept 11
10am - 12:30pm
Transforming Adversity
with Elizabeth Muzyka
In this course we will learn to identify with our potential to transform personal suffering into the basis for tremendous inner growth. By transforming adversity into the spiritual path, we will vastly increase our innate good qualities of love, compassion, and wisdom and discover how to live a life of great meaning and joy.
The course will consist of talks and guided meditations at Vajravarahi Meditation Center.
$10
Saturday Sept 18
10am - 3:30pm
Love and Wisdom
Meditation and Joyful Living
with Kadam Morten
It is said that ‘all you need is love’, but that depends on what you understand love to be. Sometimes our misunderstanding of love causes problems in our relationships. Buddha taught that we need wisdom as well. Through combining love with wisdom we develop a pain-free love that only causes happiness. Wisdom has many levels, but at its deepest it is an intuitive understanding that our world and life are not separate from our mind. Hence the key to harmonious relationships and a joyful life lies in transforming our own mind, rather than in changing the other person or the external situation.
In this course we will learn simple yet effective meditations for cultivating such transformative love and wisdom.
In particular through learning to investigate our own mind we will learn how to discover and filter out the underlying resentments and disappointments that cause such pain in our relationships. Instead we will learn how to view ourselves and others in a way that brings out our good qualities, and that allows us to use even the difficulties in our relationships as opportunities for spiritual growth. Integrating these methods into our daily lives will free us from feeling stuck in our lives or in the past, and will open us to the extraordinary potential for lasting happiness that exists in all of us.
The course will consist of talks and guided meditations, and includes refreshments and lunch at Vajravarahi Meditation Center.
$30 / $15 for monthly members
The official site of the New Kadampa Tradition -
International Kadampa Buddhist Union
Founder:
Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
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