Serlingpa Meditation Center

06/10/2026

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON MEDITATION
Ongoing Wednesdays | 12:00 – 12:30p

with Kadampa Buddhist Teacher, Rochelle Sokoll

Cost | $5 per class | FREE for Members. Learn more about Membership.

Take 30 minutes in the middle of the day to connect to your heart, cultivate inner peace and happiness, and clarify your intention for the day. No previous experience is necessary.

What to expect in this class

Brief explanation of the meditation
20 min. guided meditation
This is a drop-in class, no pre-registration necessary. Everyone is welcome!

Book reference: The New Eight Steps to Happiness by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

06/09/2026

Creating Happiness: How Karma Colors Our Life

Ongoing Tuesdays, 7-8:15pm, with Resident Teacher, Donna Cordeiro $15 per class, Free (live and livestream) for all Levels of Membership. No previous meditation experience is necessary. Each class includes 2 guided meditations, a teaching, and time for Q & A.

Understanding karma is a profound catalyst for transforming our lives and our futures, especially when we see how it ties in with the dream-like nature of our reality. In this series, we’ll explore the law of cause and effect that shapes all of our experiences, learning how to align our thoughts, words, and actions with our deepest aspirations for happiness and freedom.

June 2nd- Why Me? Understanding the Law of Karma

June 9th- Actions Have Consequences (10 non-virtuous actions)

June 16th- An Incredible Opportunity: Creating a Positive Future

June 23rd- Karma and Our Dream-like Reality

June 30th- A Better Future=Purifying Now

(in-person and livestream)

Everyone is welcome.

*** Serlingpa Meditation Center now offers a LIVESTREAM of this Tuesday evening meditation class. The virtual class is available to every member (at any level) of Serlingpa Meditation Center. All currently paying monthly members will be sent a ZOOM LINK for this class. Join live, each Tuesday evening from 7 – 8:15pm, as you are able. (class will not be recorded; only live access, but from the comfort of your own home)

TO BECOME A MEMBER, CLICK HERE.

05/26/2026

WALK FOR PEACE!
Saturday | June 6 | 1-3pm | Buttonwood Park | New Bedford, MA
REGISTER HERE!
Join us in a Walk for Peace on Saturday, 6/6/26, from 1-3pm. We will meet at the Warming House parking lot (adjacent to the pond) at Buttonwood Park, in New Bedford, MA. The walk will be followed by refreshments.

We are members of Serlingpa Meditation Center, a Kadampa Buddhist community located in downtown New Bedford. At Serlingpa Meditation Center our mission is to promote world peace through the development of inner peace. Our teacher and founder, the Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso has said “Without inner peace outer peace is Impossible”. Please take a moment to think about the truth of this statement. How can World Peace happen in a world where the inhabitants are unpeaceful? Inner peace is the path that leads to world peace. At Serlingpa Meditation Center, we teach methods based on Buddhist wisdom that make the possibility of inner peace a reality for everyone who walks through our doors. A peaceful mind is important for all people, Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike.

At the walk we will be wearing t-shirts with the beautiful message “Without inner peace, outer peace is Impossible”. Please register to help us with planning and organization. All are welcome to join us in the walk. For $35 this t-shirt (which can be picked up at the walk) can be purchased on the registration form to help support us or a donation of any size will be gratefully accepted. We can wear our t-shirts proudly as we walk promoting peace in our community and beyond.

We are a totally volunteer-run non-profit organization. ALL of the proceeds from the fundraiser go directly to the expenses of running the meditation center. Therefore, your support is immensely meaningful, directly promoting the development of peace.

Please share this information widely within your community/organization.
Let’s be messengers of peace together.

05/10/2026

Peace

MEDITATION FOR WORLD PEACE
with Resident Teacher Donna Cordeiro
(in-person and livestream)

Generate authentic hope and happiness every Sunday morning at Serlingpa Meditation Center! Join us for our classes on building world peace one peaceful mind at a time.

We will learn how to use the power of meditation to make our greatest contribution to peace in the world and bring a positive influence to those around us. Each class consists of guided meditations and a teaching on how we can use Buddhist principles and practice to establish harmony within ourselves and in our world. Be empowered to change yourself and change the world!

In these classes we will be exploring teachings from the book, The New Eight Steps to Happiness, written by the renowned Buddhist Master Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche.

As each class is self-contained, feel free to drop-in to any class in the series. No need to bring anything or wear special clothing. Everyone welcome!

*** Serlingpa Meditation Center now offers a LIVESTREAM of this Sunday meditation class. The virtual class is available to every member (at any level) of Serlingpa Meditation Center. All currently paying monthly members will be sent a ZOOM LINK for this class. Join live, each Sunday morning from 10 – 11:15am, as you are able. (class will not be recorded; only live access, but from the comfort of your own home)

CLASS TITLES:

May 3-Transforming Our Difficulties

May 10- Our Good Heart in Action

May 17-Offering Help and Happiness to Others

May 24-Increasing Our Inner Strength

May 31-Our Powerful Imagination in Action

DETAILS

Ongoing Sundays | 10 – 11:15am

Cost | $15 / FREE for Members

Each class includes a short talk and two guided meditations. No experience necessary. Please feel free to drop into any or all of the classes. No pre-registration necessary. Everyone welcome!

We are a non-profit organization funded solely by class fees and donations. Any profits go to the International Temples Project for World Peace.

05/06/2026

05/05/2026

IGNITE YOUR POTENTIAL: MEDITATION, MINDFULNESS AND THE LIMITLESS NATURE OF THE MIND
WITH RESIDENT TEACHER DONNA CORDEIRO
(in-person and livestream)

The key to improving your meditations is to improve your concentration. And the key component in that process is the practice of mindfulness. With stronger mindfulness we are able to hold our object of meditation and abide with it for longer and longer periods of time. With improved concentration we are able to absorb into our object so as to fully experience our mind’s life-enhancing, deeply relaxing, mentally pacifying and enriching benefits.

In this series, we will learn how to vastly improve our meditation skills in conjunction with the beautiful and life-changing meditation on the clarity of the mind. Everyone can learn to do this. It just takes a wish (which we will learn how to develop) and regular training (which we can easily integrate into our own schedule.)

Come along for this profound journey into your mind’s extraordinary potential. Everyone is welcome.

*** Serlingpa Meditation Center now offers a LIVESTREAM of this Tuesday evening meditation class. The virtual class is available to every member (at any level) of Serlingpa Meditation Center. All currently paying monthly members will be sent a ZOOM LINK for this class. Join live, each Tuesday evening from 7 – 8:15pm, as you are able. (class will not be recorded; only live access, but from the comfort of your own home)

TO BECOME A MEMBER, CLICK HERE.

CLASS TITLES:

May 5 Focusing our Energy for the Best Outcome

May 12 Discovering Inner Peace

May 19 The Wonder of the Mind

DETAILS

Tuesdays | 7 – 8:15pm

Cost | $15 / FREE for Members

Each class includes a short talk and two guided meditations. No experience necessary. Please feel free to drop into any or all of the classes. No pre-registration necessary. Everyone welcome!

We are a non-profit organization funded solely by class fees and donations. Any profits go to the International Temples Project for World Peace.

May 26 The Wisdom of Clarity

05/02/2026

Peace

MEDITATION FOR WORLD PEACE
with Resident Teacher Donna Cordeiro
(in-person and livestream)

Generate authentic hope and happiness every Sunday morning at Serlingpa Meditation Center! Join us for our classes on building world peace one peaceful mind at a time.

We will learn how to use the power of meditation to make our greatest contribution to peace in the world and bring a positive influence to those around us. Each class consists of guided meditations and a teaching on how we can use Buddhist principles and practice to establish harmony within ourselves and in our world. Be empowered to change yourself and change the world!

In these classes we will be exploring teachings from the book, The New Eight Steps to Happiness, written by the renowned Buddhist Master Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche.

As each class is self-contained, feel free to drop-in to any class in the series. No need to bring anything or wear special clothing. Everyone welcome!

*** Serlingpa Meditation Center now offers a LIVESTREAM of this Sunday meditation class. The virtual class is available to every member (at any level) of Serlingpa Meditation Center. All currently paying monthly members will be sent a ZOOM LINK for this class. Join live, each Sunday morning from 10 – 11:15am, as you are able. (class will not be recorded; only live access, but from the comfort of your own home)

DETAILS

Ongoing Sundays | 10 – 11:15am

Cost | $15 / FREE for Members

Each class includes a short talk and two guided meditations. No experience necessary. Please feel free to drop into any or all of the classes. No pre-registration necessary. Everyone welcome!

We are a non-profit organization funded solely by class fees and donations. Any profits go to the International Temples Project for World Peace.

03/11/2026

MOVIE NIGHT!
Friday | March 13th | 6-9pm | $5
Enjoy a movie night and snacks with the Serlingpa community!

The Life of Buddha is a special dramatic presentation, inspired by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche and his teachings, that visually captures the essence of Buddha Shakyamuni’s life. Based on the twelve principal deeds of Buddha, it reveals in a clear and moving way the essential characteristics of a spiritual life.

“By watching this play again and again, we can discover the deeper levels of the spiritual message of Buddha’s life. This play will be a source of constant encouragement and inspiration in our lives. Through it we can encourage ourselves to take the real meaning of our human life and learn how we accomplish this meaning by attaining the supreme happiness of enlightenment.”

~Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche

Everybody is welcome!

03/10/2026

UPLIFT YOUR MIND
WITH MEDITATION
WITH RESIDENT TEACHER DONNA CORDEIRO
(in-person and livestream)

In the busyness of daily life, it is easy to feel overwhelmed and to lose sight of what really matters: our love and compassion. In this special meditation series, we will contemplate and engage in the time tested Buddhist meditations known as the “seven-fold cause and effect”. These practices have been used for centuries to develop our inner qualities of love and compassion. By gaining experience of these meditations, we can learn to increase our inner peace, benefit others, and manifest our greatest spiritual potential.

Everyone is Welcome. Drop In Class.

*** Serlingpa Meditation Center now offers a LIVESTREAM of this Tuesday evening meditation class. The virtual class is available to every member (at any level) of Serlingpa Meditation Center. All currently paying monthly members will be sent a ZOOM LINK for this class. Join live, each Tuesday evening from 7 – 8:15pm, as you are able. (class will not be recorded; only live access, but from the comfort of your own home)

TO BECOME A MEMBER, CLICK HERE.

CLASS TITLES:

March 3 Equanimity

March 10 A Special View

March 17 Gratitude

March 24 Repaying Kindness

March 31 Affectionate Love

DETAILS

Tuesdays | 7 – 8:15pm

Cost | $15 / FREE for Members

Each class includes a short talk and two guided meditations. No experience necessary. Please feel free to drop into any or all of the classes. No pre-registration necessary. Everyone welcome!

We are a non-profit organization funded solely by class fees and donations. Any profits go to the International Temples Project for World Peace.