Classes range from brief, guided meditations to full classes including practical teachings on how to incorporate meditation and Buddhist practices into daily life. Discover how special retreats and longer courses can help you enjoy the peace of your own mind. Chanted meditations or prayers, known as 'pujas, ' are special methods for purifying negativity, accumulating merit and receiving blessings.
They helps us to develop and maintain a positive mind, and are a powerful preparation for meditation. Enjoy easy access to in-person and online classes as an Odiyana Kadampa Buddhist Center member, while helping the center maintain a strong foundation in order to serve the local community. Find the texts and sadhanas referenced during classes, including audio books and podcasts.
They helps us to develop and maintain a positive mind, and are a powerful preparation for meditation. Enjoy easy access to in-person and online classes as an Odiyana Kadampa Buddhist Center member, while helping the center maintain a strong foundation in order to serve the local community. Find the texts and sadhanas referenced during classes, including audio books and podcasts.
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Odiyana Kadampa Buddhist Center is a Buddhist meditation center dedicated to world peace by offering everyone the opportunity to develop mental peace through meditation and related practices. Classes are open to everyone, from beginners to advanced practitioners. These teachings offer clear, practical methods to improve our human nature and qualities through developing the capacity of our mind.
Take a break from your day and deepen your wisdom and inner peace. Each class includes brief advice from Buddha's teachings which we can then take to heart with a guided meditation. For our meditations to be transformative, our heart needs to be touched.
Learning how to reflect deeply on truths such as impermanence, the power of love and compassion and the way things really are will cause us to really change from within and will transform our daily actions and intentions into meaningful ones.In this series, we will learn how to meditate on a special presentation of meditation objects that will lead us to developing our full potential and that will make our life peaceful and meaningful.
Learning how to reflect deeply on truths such as impermanence, the power of love and compassion and the way things really are will cause us to really change from within and will transform our daily actions and intentions into meaningful ones.In this series, we will learn how to meditate on a special presentation of meditation objects that will lead us to developing our full potential and that will make our life peaceful and meaningful.
For those who have been attending the General Program classes at the center or at any of our branch classes, Foundation Program is the next step to deepening your practice by gaining powerful and practical experience of Buddha's teachings. In these classes, students commit to studying a book and attending weekly classes.
The Teacher Training Program (TTP) is designed to provide an extensive presentation of particular subjects of Mahayana Buddhism to enable practitioners to deepen their knowledge and experience of Buddhism, and to train as qualified New Kadampa Tradition Teachers. The program comprises twelve subjects, based on Buddha's Sutra and Tantra teachings and the corresponding commentaries by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.
If you are finding benefit from the teachings and the community at Odiyana Kadampa Buddhist Center, consider joining on as a supporting member to help ensure that others can receive these special teachings. OKBC is run entirely through the kindness of volunteers - including teachers - class donations, and membership.
Reviews (5)
Ryan Cronin
Dec 27, 2017
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This place has been such a blessing in my life! I've been attending classes there for many years. It is great being around other people who are interested in working on their mind. What brings me back most though is the teachings. They are so clear and they really work to change my mind from a negative to a positive state. The teachers always leave you with some practical advice to take off the cushion (or chair!) and apply to what ever life is currently throwing at you.
Amanda Williams-Briggs
Dec 23, 2017
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I have been a student at Odiyana for four years and I cannot stress enough what a difference it has made to my life! I am always inspired by the enthusiasm, knowledge, and dedication of out resident teacher, Kadam Eve, as well as the spiritual community of my peers. My experiences have shifted my priorities completely and I find I am happier and more peaceful than I have ever been!
Nate Nissen
Jun 09, 2017
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Odiyana is a wonderful place to learn to meditate. I have been attending classes for quite some time now, and I can honestly say that I have been able to maintain a calmer mind in situations where I couldn't before. Thanks to Kadam Eve and the other meditation teachers there for their clear instructions that make Buddha's teachings accessible to our modern life.
Vic
Aug 09, 2016
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Josey Sanchez
Aug 02, 2016
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