Kadampa Meditation Center San Francisco

06/13/2026

Just try, don’t worry 🤍

Connect with the vast, loving mind of purified consciousness at Saturday’s Empowerment of Buddha Vajrasattva on June 20th.

Experience the power of meditating together with the intention to purify the painful past and create a future of inner and world peace.

Learn tools to take home after receiving positive imprints in a joyful community celebration.

It all starts with a wish and a kind, qualified guide: Gen Kelsang Choma, KMC SF’s Resident Teacher and one of the country’s most senior Kadampa Buddhist nuns.

Everyone welcome to participate at whatever level and intention they wish.

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06/05/2026

06/01/2026

It just feels good to purify

05/31/2026

Release the past, create the future 🤍🪷❤️‍🔥

Connecting with the Buddha of purified consciousness through this blessing ritual and guided meditation purifies negative karma and creates the cause to actualize our pure potential.

Gen Kelsang Choma, one the US’s most senior Kadampa Buddhist nun and teachers, will share timeless teachings on the purification practice of Vajrasattva.

This skillful, creative technology allows the mind to free itself from old and painful habits of thinking and acting.

Gradually we experience a wonderful lightness and inner freedom.

Living a life based on wisdom and love, we become the person we really wish to be.

WHAT IS AN EMPOWERMENT:

An empowerment is a teaching and series of guided
meditations through which we make a connection with a particular Buddha. It bestows upon us special blessings that heal our mind and awaken our Buddha nature.

Everyone of any faith and at any level of experience or understanding is welcome to participate in this peaceful, illuminating day.

If you are new to this practice or need more information, contact: [email protected].

WHAT TO EXPECT:

Practical Teachings
Empowerment Ceremony
Chanted Prayers
Guided meditations

05/26/2026

Let the summer of meditation begin ☀️🧘🏽‍♀️🪷🧘

MEDITATE ON MONDAYS
Easy Guided Meditations for Everyone

MONDAYS | 7 PM – 8 PM
BEGINNING JUNE 1ST, 2026

This Summer of Meditation class presents easy-to-learn meditations and helpful, short teachings that we can immediately use to improve our work and relationships, cultivate inner peace and increase our enjoyment of daily life.

With 30 to 40 minutes of this one hour class spent in 2 guided meditations from our Living Meditations series, this is a great practice to gain real experience meditating within a supportive group framework.

Everyone is welcome. No experience necessary.

Location: The Uptown, 500 William St, Oakland, CA 94612

$20 | Free for Members

First time students earn one free class pass for here,
or any KMC SF drop-in classes.

05/23/2026

A May visit to remember…reflecting on the kindness of our weekend with Kadam Trina and how she touched our Sangha’s heart ♥️

Many said it was the best teaching they could remember hearing on the topic of loving kindness.

Resident Teacher Gen Choma agreed wholeheartedly, saying “she thoroughly exposed the truth that we actually do live in a world of kindness; it was a masterful teaching on using evidence to gain conviction. Her humor and examples were delightful and engaging. There was lots of laughter and also periods of deep resonating reflection. Not only did she create a sea change in our minds, she was also a model of teaching skills.”

One of the great fortunes of the New Kadampa Tradition is the variety of qualified, kind teachers traveling about sharing Dharma. Thank you KMC Washington for sharing your precious one with us!

05/07/2026

Live lightly, discover the joy of selflessness…

Who are we and how do we really exist?

In his wisdom teachings, Buddha reveals the true nature of reality — emptiness, which opens the door to limitless possibility.

Of all Buddha’s teachings, none are more far-reaching and transformative than the teachings on selflessness.

It is through our understanding of emptiness that we can come to solve all our problems, live joyfully, and be of maximum benefit to others.

When we realize the emptiness of our self, how self is merely self-image, we can live in our world lightly, having the flexibility of mind to respond to every situation in a constructive way.

We become deeply engaged with everyone and everything around us from a spacious, compassionate perspective.

Everyone is welcome.



“Emptiness is the way things really are. It is the way things exist as opposed to the way they appear... There is no greater method for experiencing peace of mind and happiness than to understand and meditate on emptiness.”

— Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche

05/04/2026

It’s up to us what world we want to see…

Free Purification Prayers Mondays 5:30 - 6pm

Cleanse away and gain familiarity of these powerful, simple prayers over the next 7 Mondays’ Purification EOD Vacation leading up to our 6/20 Vajrasattva Empowerment and 6/21-23 Purification Retreat.

Drop into any Monday prayers in person, also available online for members.

Learn more about our 6/20 empowerment here ⤵️

https://www.meditateinsanfrancisco.org/products/purifying-our-past-embracing-our-potential