Calgary Buddhist Meditation Centre

On Sunday morning August 9th, the Centre will be meeting at the base of Ptarmigan Cirque for a hike and meditation in the mountains!  All the details are on our Special Events Page.

We hope to see you there!

Both Sunday and Tuesday classes are in recess for the summer!  Our regular classes start up again Tuesday, September 8th.

Enjoy your summer and we’ll see you again in the fall.

We will be taking a break from Tuesday evening meditation classes until Fall 2009.  Sunday classes will continue as usual, with the exception of Sunday, May 24.  Class is cancelled that day.

Have a good summer everyone!

Once the Buddha Shakyamuni was teaching on the famous Vulture Peak, a low mountain in Bihar that has the shape of a vulture. Today there are the ruins of a monastery on that location and the stone road built by the king so as to be able to visit the Buddha is still walkable. At the time of the Buddha’s teaching, there appeared in the sky above innumerable Buddhas sitting on lotus flowers all aglow. Although the lotus flowers were incredibly beautiful and fragrant, giving off rays of light, in an instant they all withered, blackened, smelled like rotten vegetation and completely enclosed the Buddhas and all their glory.

This is the opening image from the Tathagatagarbha Sutra to illustrate the fact that you, with all of your supposed impurities, with impure body and mind, are really the glorious Buddha full of wisdom and compassion. The rotten flowers did not hinder in any way the glory of the Buddhas inside. Just like your body and mind, even if impure, does not hinder your real Buddha nature.

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Please note that, due to a scheduling conflict, there will be no meditation or dharma talk on Sunday, January 18th.

We hope you can still join  us for the Intro to Buddhism classes on Tuesday the 13th and Wednesday the 14th, and for our regular Sunday morning schedule beginning January 25th.

We will be taking a short break from our regularly scheduled classes and events from December 15th to January 12th inclusive.  We are pleased to announce that Shirfu will be offering his popular Introduction to Buddhism lectures again once classes resume in January.

Join us on Tuesday, January 13th at 7:30 pm for an introductory lecture on Buddhist practice and zazen meditation.  On Wednesday, January 14th at 7:30 pm, we will have a more in-depth discussion on Buddhist beliefs and principles.  No pre-registration is required and all are welcome.  Tea and light snacks will be provided.

Calgary Buddhist Meditation Centre

Presents a Public Talk & demonstration:

Martial Arts & Meditation

There is a reason that the Shaolin, Hwarang, and Samurai trained in meditation. There is a natural connection between the martial arts and meditation. This talk will present some of the history and psychology of meditation and martial arts. It will also have a full demonstration of zazen meditation with instructions.

Take your Martial Arts to the next level

Oct. 26, 2008/ 10:00am

#110, 138 18th Ave SE (across from the Elbow River Casino)

FREE ADMISSION

Please be advised that, due to the Thanksgiving holiday, the October 12 Sunday morning meditation and Dharma talk has been canceled.

The Tuesday evening meditation class on October 14 will go on as scheduled.

You are all slaves. You, each and everyone, are enslaved by your thoughts and emotions. Do you think not? Let us try an experiment. You only have to sit there and stop thinking for one minute. Ok now just don’t think. Try it now.

How many made it fifteen seconds? How many twenty? I know none of you made it a minute. You are trapped by your own mental activity. Your thoughts and emotions — for after all emotions are just thoughts too.

Because you are enslaved by your mental activity, you are not free and thus you constantly have many trials, tribulations, consternations, and more. Your life is like a roller coaster that you can not get off. Your reach great heights when you accomplish something that your ego determined was needed or desired and great lows when you do not. Click to continue »

The Calgary Buddhist Meditation Centre will be moving out of our Shirfu’s basement and holding its first class at our new location, #110, 138 18th Ave SE, at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, September 9th (check our Schedule for details). Sunday morning meditation and Dharma talks to begin September 14th at 10am.

Anyone is welcome to join us, whether new to meditation, looking for advice or encouragement in an existing meditation practice, or just wanting to sit with a friendly and non-sectarian group.