Live Streaming Weekly Meditation
Classes and Prayers
For your convenience during the Coronavirus outbreak, we are continuing to offer all our weekly meditation classes and a range of special events streaming online with Resident Teacher and Buddhist monk, Gen Kelsang Tabkay.
Online Registration will close 10 minutes after class starts to ensure everyone has their link for the class. You will need to download the plugin to Zoom.com on your browser to participate only once.
Please check your spam, or other email filters files for and email from KMC Phoenix (Info@meditationinArizona.org) for the confirmation email. Please email if one is not received 10 min before each class.
Financial Difficulty?
We understand that some of you may be experiencing financial difficulties at this time. We do not turn anyone away for lack of funds. Please e-mail Steven, our Administrative Director, at for reduced fees.
Meditation for Modern Life
10 am - 11:15am
with Gen Kelsang Tabkay
$5 - $20 Suggested fee
In each of these drop-in meditation classes, we will be learning meditations that will allow us to cultivate inner peace, wisdom, and will empower us with solutions to our daily problems. We all have within us the potential for peace and happiness, and cultivating this potential creates the harmony we seek. Each class includes a relaxing breathing meditation, a teaching, a contemplative meditation, and a closing dedication.
The current series topic will be exploring a series of meditations from the New Meditation Handbook by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. Each class can be attended individually, no need to attend the entire series.
April 5 -- Equalizing Self and Others
Develop a realistic mind that comes to see the equality of all beings.
April 12 -- Letting go of the source of pain
April 19 -- Cherishing others - The source of unending happiness
April 26 -- Developing empathy
Letting go of Anxiety
7 - 8:30pm | $10 per person per class
Many people suffer from feelings of fear and constant anxiety or are simply overwhelmed by the stress and demands of everyday life. In this meditation series, Kadampa Buddhist monk, Gen Kelsang Tabkay, will explore practical meditations and special ways of thinking that will help us to reduce and eventually let go of stress and anxiety.
April
6 -- Understanding attachment, the basis of anxiety --
13 -- Developing love, letting go of ourself
20 -- Making meditation joyful
27 -- Equanimity and inner peace
Midday Meditation for a Peaceful mind
12 - 12:30pm | $5 per person per class
A brief introduction followed by a guided meditation on loving kindness, a powerful meditation to let go of negativity, heal your mind, and infuse the rest of your day with peace and inspiration.
Simply Meditate
7 - 8 pm | $5 per person per class
Simply Meditate is a perfect opportunity to learn different meditations and the basics of meditation practice. Each class includes two guided 15-minute meditations and instructions that can easily be integrated into daily life.
Suitable for beginners and experienced meditators alike, Simply Meditate helps everyone discover the profound benefits of engaging in meditation and learn how to develop a naturally peaceful, calm and happy mind.
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April 29 --
Midday Meditation for a Peaceful mind
12 - 12:30pm | $5 per person per class
A brief introduction followed by a guided meditation on loving kindness, a powerful meditation to let go of negativity, heal your mind, and infuse the rest of your day with peace and inspiration.
Saturday, April 11
Escape to Reality - A Guided Day Retreat
$40; discounts for members
This retreat will be based on the liberating insights into reality from Venerable Geshe Keslang Gyatso Rinpoche's latest book, The Mirror of Dharma. By meditating on Buddha's teachings on reality, or emptiness, we can learn to free ourselves from our most stubborn bad habits, practically benefit others and immerse ourselves in a state of lasting peace.
Each session will include a brief teaching, preparatory prayers and a guided meditation.
Retreat Schedule
8:30am - 10:00am ~ Session 1
11am - 12:30pm ~ Session 2
2:00 - 3:30pm ~ Session 3
4:00 - 5:00pm ~ Session 4
Saturday, April 18
Mini Retreat -- Detox your Mind: The Power of Mantra
10am - 1pm
$15; discounts for members
Our daily life is often so fast-paced, filled with activity, technology, and ever increasing stimulation. At the end of the day we can feel scattered, stressed, and emotionally unsettled. Over time we can carry a lot of stress and adopt unhealthy habits. Although we are more digitally connected than ever, we are increasingly disconnected from our peace of mind.
In this half day guided meditation retreat with Buddhist monk Gen Kelsang Tabkay, you will find the space and time to truly de-stress, disconnect from digital life and reconnect with inner peace and contentment.
Through a special breathing meditation, combined with mental mantra recitation, you can detoxify your body, speech, and mind and improve your good heart. Bring greater peace and happiness into your life and the lives of those around you.
Retreat Schedule
10am - 11am -- Session 1
11:30am - 12:30pm -- Session 2
Saturday, April 25
Facing Death: The Practice of Transference of Consciousness for the Deceased
10am - 1:15pm
$15; discounts for members
Death is something that will happen to us all. How can relate to our own and others' mortality in a realistic and meaningful way? What can we do for our friends and loved ones once they have died? In this course, Gen Kelsang Tabkay will answer these questions from a Buddhist perspective and give an explanation of the practice of transference of consciousness, or Powa.
Course Schedule
10am - 11:30am -- Teaching
12:30am - 1:15pm -- Guided Powa practice
Chanted Prayers
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Mon - Sat at 8 am
Please note that we will be joining in the world wide Tara Chanting
April 7 - 8 at 6 pm, 10 pm, 2 am, 6 am, 10 am and 2 pm
Mon - Sat at 5:30 pm
*No live stream 4.7.20
Wishfulfilling Jewel Sun at 12:15pm
About the Teacher
Gen Kelsang Tabkay is a Kadampa Buddhist monk and the Resident Teacher at Kadampa Meditation Center Phoenix. He has been a student of contemporary Buddhist Master Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche for over 13 years, having received empowerments and lineage blessings directly from him. Gen Tabkay presents Buddhism and meditation in an accessible and clear way, dedicating himself to bringing peace into the hearts of others. He was previously the Education Program Coordinator and Resident Teacher at Kadampa Meditation Center South Carolina.
KADAMPA MEDITATION CENTER PHOENIX'S ONLINE CLASS TERMS AND CONDITIONS
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Cost of each class is as advertised
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Price is per person - Links and to classes are not to be shared
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Classes are for those in the state of Arizona If you do not live in these areas please click here to find a Kadampa Meditation Center near you.
Refund and Cancelation
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A registration will only be accepted when made online, and when all necessary information and payment has been received. Registrations are non-transferrable and a separate registration is required for each person attending
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Registrants can cancel participation to a live class and receive a full refund by emailing at least 24 hours before the start date and time of the class.
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No refunds are given within 1 hours of any class.
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Kadampa Meditation Center Phoenix reserves the right to cancel or reschedule any live class as circumstances dictate
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Kadampa Meditation Center has done its best to provide a live stream. Sound and Video quality may vary and we are not responsbile for buffering, lag time or anything of the like.