A Silent Meditation Retreat: The Magic of Meditation

A Silent Country Retreat

with Kelsang Khacho

Nov 29 - Dec 1, 2024

Hosted by Akshobya Kadampa Buddhist Centre
Retreat Location:
Mount St. Francis Retreat Centre
41160 Retreat Road, Cochrane Alberta

It is said we can measure our life in the number of breaths we take. We are breathing all the time. How wonderful it would be if we could give every breath special value. It would make our life truly meaningful. This can really happen through meditation, especially the magical practice of Taking and Giving.

Taking and Giving is a powerful meditation for bringing love, compassion and wisdom quickly and directly into our lives. Imagine becoming the kind of person who can solve all their own problems of anger, jealousy, attachment and other delusions. Someone who has a special method for dealing with their own sickness. Someone who has stable happiness and whose boundless good heart is a source of inspiration and benefit to others. Imagine being a person of whom everyone could say they were better for having met you. With Taking and Giving we can be that person. We can transform who we are.

Kelsang Khacho will introduce us to the special meditations which make up Taking and Giving. She will explain the profound wisdom which makes this practice work – and how what begins as correct imagination in meditation produces very real and practical effects in our daily lives. Based on many years’ personal experience, she will give us the inspiration and confidence we need to try this special magic for ourselves.

In this retreat, silence will be observed from Friday after the Introduction to Sunday at 12noon. For those who find it challenging to observe full silence, there will be designated areas where you can quietly speak to others after 12noon on Saturday.

About the Teacher
Kelsang Khacho is the Resident Teacher of Akshobya Kadampa Buddhist Centre. She is a modern Buddhist nun who is an inspiring example of modern Buddhism in practice and is dedicated to helping everyone dis

Cost:
$395 Full retreat, if registered by (Oct 31, 2024)
$445 Registrations accepted after (up until Nov 22, 2024)

How to Register:
Visit the Centre or Call Akshobya Centre at (403) 454-7595, or visit meditateincalgary.org and register on-line.

Dinner • 6:30pm

Session 1 • 7:30 – 9:00pm (Introduction)

Session 2 ⋅ 9:15 - 10:15 am

Session 3 ⋅ 11:00 am - 12:45 am

Session 4 ⋅ 3:00 - 4:15 pm

Session 5 ⋅ 5:00 - 6:00 pm

Wishfulfilling Jewel Puja ⋅ 7.30 - 8:30pm

Session 6 ⋅ 9:15 - 10:15 am

Session 7 ⋅ 10:45 am - 11:45 am

Lunch • 12:00pm

Session 8 • 1:00 – 1:30pm (time for questions)

Pack-up

Host or Publisher Akshobya Kadampa Buddhist Centre