Sunday Morning Drop-in Classes
with Gen Thekchen
at KMC Ottawa
Sunday Mornings with Gen Thekchen
Weekly Drop-in classes, 11am - 12:15pm
at Kadampa Meditation Centre Ottawa
In-person: $15 per drop-in class
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These light & uplifting Sunday morning classes with Gen Thekchen are suitable for everyone. Each one includes a practical teaching and two guided meditations.
Join us afterwards for coffee / tea / snacks, and an opportunity to chat with Gen Thekchen and other students. Everyone is welcome.
These classes are available in-person and by live-stream. Contact info@meditateinottawa.org to learn more about the livestream option.
Class Schedule
Sunday Dec 8 - Training the mind with family and friends over the holidays
Sunday Dec 15 - Vajrasattva Retreat
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These classes are taught by Resident Teacher Gen Kelsang Thekchen,who is a Kadampa Buddhist monk & senior Teacher in the New Kadampa Tradition. He has been a Teacher under the guidance of Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche for more than 25 years. Gen Thekchen has taught widely in Canada and in the UK, and is now the Resident Teacher at Kadampa Meditation Centre Ottawa. He is well known for his ability to present Buddha's teachings in a practical, profound and often humorous way, making them very accessible and easy to practise in everyday life.
To hear a sample of a teaching with Gen Thekchen, click on the arrow below.
Sunday Morning
The only way to attain the permanent peace of liberation is to cultivate and increase our present peaceful minds.