Atisha Buddhist Centre

08/17/2026

Living Clarity - Kadampa Podcasts

Adam Starr explores why our confidence crumbles when life hits hard, using the vivid metaphor of living in a bamboo hut on a beach. Drawing from the Buddhist master Shantideva, he reveals the difference between misplaced confidence and authentic spiritual confidence rooted in openness and humility.

☸️Subscribe to the New Kadampa Tradition’s YouTube channel for guided meditations and short teachings
☸️Access Living Clarity Podcast to hear practical solutions to daily challenges
☸️Be inspired by reading about personal meditation experiences on the Kadampa Blog.
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08/11/2026

The Foundation Program is a structured study & meditation class designed for those wishing to make their practice more consistent and meaningful.

Classes include:
☸️Guided meditation
☸️Teachings & prayers
☸️Group discussion
☸️Practical advice for daily life

In September, we will begin our study of Joyful Path of Good Fortune, The Path to the Supreme Happiness of Enlightenment. With this book, Geshe Kelsang offers us step-by-step guidance on the meditation practices that will lead us to lasting inner peace and happiness. With extraordinary clarity, he presents all Buddha’s teachings in the order in which they are to be practised, enriching his explanation with stories and illuminating analogies. This is a perfect guidebook to the Buddhist path.

Everyone welcome.

Come try out the program free of charge and without commitments for the first three classes.

📆Tuesday evenings starting Sept. 8th
🕰6:30-9pm
📍Atisha Buddhist Centre, East Toronto
1823 Gerrard St East (at Woodbine)

07/06/2026

06/25/2026

06/24/2026

Thank you to Jampa Ling and KMC Canada for hosting a wonderful Emptiness Retreat at Lakeside Inn in Orillia this past weekend.

Gen Chodor and Kelsang Rigma led beautiful sessions on the Emptiness of our I, helping us gain wisdom realizations.

06/11/2026

In the latest Living Clarity podcast, Gen Chodor gives advice on overcoming a common objection to meditating: “I don’t have the time to meditate”. He explains how any activity — eating, driving, even watching Netflix — can become a meditation practice. Learn how to do regular daily activities with special states of mind that transform life into the path to happiness.

https://kadampa.org/series/living-clarity

Further reading in the following book:�How to Understand the Mind

06/10/2026

Explore meditation in a three week course at Atisha Buddhist Centre. Learn to calm your mind and move it in a positive direction.

You’ll get real meditation experience and practise in a relaxed and friendly environment.

The course includes a free meditation app which you can use for your daily practice.

📆 June 15, 22 & 29
⏰ 7-8pm
✍️ atisha.ca/meditation-classes
$25

06/10/2026

Offering to the Spiritual Guide, or Lama Chopa in Tibetan, is a special Guru yoga of Je Tsongkhapa in conjunction with Highest Yoga Ta**ra. It was compiled by the first Panchen Lama, Losang Chokyi Gyaltsen, as a preliminary practice for Ta***ic Mahamudra. The main practice is meditation on reliance upon our Spiritual Guide, but it also includes all the essential practices of the stages of the path (Lamrim) and training the mind (Lojong), as well as both the generation and completion stages of Highest Yoga Ta**ra. By relying upon our Spiritual Guide as one with Je Tsongkhapa, our compassion, spiritual power, and especially our wisdom will naturally increase. A complete commentary to this practice can be found in Great Treasury of Merit.