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Je Tsongkhapa Kadampa Buddhist Center
1070 Tunnel Road, Bldg 2, Unit 20
Asheville, NC 28805

About this event
Love is the key to a happy and meaningful life. When we have a strong loving mind, our whole experience of the world changes - our life fills with hope, our relationships become stronger, and we naturally contribute to a more positive world.
Buddha Maitreya is the embodiment of loving kindness of all the Buddhas. The empowerment is a blissful guided meditation that connects us to Maitreya’s enlightened love awakening our own potential to develop the universal love of a Buddha. By receiving his inspiring blessings we can swiftly actualize our own potential for love and gain the confidence we need to progress along the spiritual path.
“An empowerment bestows upon us special blessings that heal our mental continuum and awaken our Buddha nature.”
— Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche
In the commentary, we will learn the special brief practice of Buddha Maitreya. Through identifying strongly with this Buddha’s qualities, we nurture them within ourselves; in this way we begin to become someone whose love transforms the world.
An empowerment is a special ceremony in which we receive the blessings that heal our mental continuum and awaken our Buddha nature. It consists of meditations, guided visualizations and prayers followed by a teachings to explain the practice. Everybody Welcome.
Saturday, March 8 | 10:30am - 4:00pm
10am - 10:30 Registration
10:30am–12:30pm Empowerment
Lunch on your own - 12:30pm - 2:30pm
2:30–4:00pm Commentary & Practice

About the Teacher
Kadam Sharon has been practicing meditation and Kadampa Buddhism since 2003 and is the Resident teacher of the Je Tsongkhapa Kadampa Meditation Center in Asheville. Before Sharon moved to Asheville in 2011, she volunteered as the Education Program Coordinator for several years at the internationally renowned world peace temple for meditation and modern Buddhism, Kadampa Meditation Center New York. There she received teachings and guidance directly from our General Spiritual Director, Gen-la Kelsang Dekyong, guided retreats, and taught classes. She has engaged in numerous focused meditation retreats and is known for teaching others how to develop a peaceful mind with great skill, lightness, and humor. Today, Sharon is a part of the Special Teacher Training Program and teaches numerous meditation classes and retreats in Asheville, NC, Western NC, and Johnson City, TN. Sharon and her husband have one son.
Je Tsongkhapa Kadampa Meditation Center
1070 Tunnel Road, Bldg 2, Unit 20
Asheville, NC 28805
epc@meditationinasheville.org
(828) 668-2241
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