Events for November 2, 2024 - November 2, 2024

Please join us for our daily 5–6pm mindfulness practice session (shamatha-vipashyanā mahāmudrā). You are also welcome to stay on for evening chants (6–6:30pm) and a light dinner (usually soup).

Unscheduled open day.

This Intensive will include a talk and guided meditations given by Gelong Lodrö Sangpo on the second of the four kinds of “Immeasurables” (Skt.: apramāṇa): loving kindness (maitrī); compassion (karuṇā); sympathetic joy (muditā); equanimity (upekṣā). These meditations and contemplations are called “immeasurable” since, according to the Abhidharmakośa: “(a) they take an immeasurable number of sentient [...]

Please feel free to join our daily Vajrayāna morning practice. We in general practice from 8–10am Vajrayoginī, but prior and post to the Chakrasaṃvara Feast Day and Intensive Day, we practice Chakrasaṃvara from 8–10am. And yes, on Wednesday mornings we have Mindfulness practice from 8–11am. Please check our monthly calendar for specifics: https://www.kccl.ca/events/month/ Whoever has received [...]

Description: This series of classes that attempts to cover “new ground” for our Vajrayoginī practice. Namely — based on modern oral and traditional written commentaries — it attempts to go through the entire sādhana verse by verse. Who can attend this class: Whoever has received Vajrayoginī abhiṣheka. Since the classes will be self-contained, people can join in [...]

Please feel free to join our daily Vajrayāna morning practice. We in general practice from 8–10am Vajrayoginī, but prior and post to the Chakrasaṃvara Feast Day and Intensive Day, we practice Chakrasaṃvara from 8–10am. And yes, on Wednesday mornings we have Mindfulness practice from 8–11am. Please check our monthly calendar for specifics: https://www.kccl.ca/events/month/ Whoever has received [...]

Please join us for our weekly 8–11 am “mindfulness practice” sessions. Who can attend: Everybody. In particular, beginning students are welcome. If you need beginning instruction on mindfulness (= shamatha) practice, please get in touch with us beforehand. Even though mindfulness practice is, in comparison to tantric practice, a “quick entry” practice, it can also be seen as [...]

The topic of the first class will be "Transmission" and will include the listening or viewing of a transmission talk given by one of the Kagyü masters, as well as a reading transmission (lung) of the Karma Kagyü ngöndro text. The following classes (January 31, onwards) will be a line by line discussion of each [...]

Please feel free to join our daily Vajrayāna morning practice. We in general practice from 8–10am Vajrayoginī, but prior and post to the Chakrasaṃvara Feast Day and Intensive Day, we practice Chakrasaṃvara from 8–10am. And yes, on Wednesday mornings we have Mindfulness practice from 8–11am. Please check our monthly calendar for specifics: https://www.kccl.ca/events/month/ Whoever has received [...]

Chakrasaṃvara feast at Halifax Shambhala Center Please notice for this upcoming feast we will join forces at the Halifax Shambhala Center, starting 4pm.

Unscheduled open day.

This Intensive will include a talk and guided meditations given by Gelong Lodrö Sangpo on the third of the four kinds of “Immeasurables” (Skt.: apramāṇa): loving kindness (maitrī); compassion (karuṇā); sympathetic joy (muditā); equanimity (upekṣā). These meditations and contemplations are called “immeasurable” since, according to the Abhidharmakośa: “(a) they take an immeasurable number of sentient [...]