Kadampa Center

Meditation and Keeping Busy

Submitted by babs4104
on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 22:05

Today's Kadampa Center teaching was about taming your mind. Geshe Gelek talked about one of my favorite thanka paintings - The Monk, The Elephant, and the Monkey. It shows the nine stages of taming your mind using great imagery. At first, the monk is chasing behind the black elephant and monkey - clearly having a hard time keeping up. As the three travel along the path, the animals slowly turn from black to white, and at the very end, the monk is riding the elephant....

It is all about practice - Geshe-la led us in three different types of meditation to help us start taming our minds.

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Kadampa Center Modular Classroom

Submitted by babs4104
on Sat, 05/22/2010 - 08:28

Finishing up the bricks, on Flickr
The modular classroom is almost ready for use! A team of hardworking Kadampateers has created this wonderful new space for the children’s program (and other activities) at Kadampa Center.

Kadampa Center is already a great place or children to learn about how to live a compassionate and balanced life. On Sundays, a great bunch of 20 to 40 children participate in Kadampa Center programs.

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Tiger Woods and Buddhism

Submitted by babs4104
on Sun, 04/11/2010 - 12:37

It has been a busy week for the news media, trying to make everything they can of Tiger Woods’ proclamation that he is returning to his Buddhist roots.

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At Kadampa Center, we received several requests for interviews from news media. Don Brown, the founder of Kadampa Center, participated in an interview on WPTF radio on Friday, April 9.

I find it fascinating that people are so interested in Tiger’s personal life and convictions. He is a public figure, but that doesn’t mean he is not human and prone, just like all of us, to making mistakes and using bad judgement.

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Religion and the Environment

Submitted by babs4104
on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 16:52

On Tuesday, March 10, I participated in a panel at Meredith College in Raleigh on Religion and the Environment. Here is the gist of my introductory comments. It was a great panel - good discussion. News Release

Good afternoon. My name is Barb Baranski. I am here as a representative of the Kadampa Center for the Practice of Tibetan Buddhism here in Raleigh. I am honored to take part on this panel, and want thank Dr. Benko for inviting me to participate.

My qualifications for being here are mostly that I am a person who seriously practices Buddhism, and has a serious interest in the

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