with Kadampa Buddhist Teacher, Kadam Michelle

The New Meditation Handbook is a practical guide to meditation that teaches us how to make ourselves and others happy by developing inner peace, and in this way making our lives more meaningful. Without inner peace there is no real happiness at all. Problems, suffering and unhappiness do not exist outside the mind; they are feelings and thus part of our mind. Therefore, it is only by controlling our mind that we can permanently stop our problems and make ourselves and others genuinely happy. Each week we will learn one of the twenty-one Buddhist meditation practices within the New Meditation Handbook.

Weekly Topics
March 12: What are Samsara & Nirvana
March 19: Equanimity, Embracing Equality
March 26: Others are Our Mothers

April 2: A Special View of Others
April 9: Kindness is Everywhere
April 16: The Great Equalizer
April 23: Reducing Worry & Anxiety
April 30: Authentic Love

May 7: The Holy Secret of Exchanging Self with Others
May 14: Great Compassion
May 21: Taking Away Suffering
May 28: Wishing Love

June 4: Giving Happiness
June 11: Becoming a Friend of the World
June 18: The Peace of Concentration
June 25: Liberating Wisdom

Kadam Michelle Gauthier is the Resident Teacher of Kadampa Meditation Center Tampa Bay and has been a disciple of Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso for more than 26 years. Before coming to Tampa Bay, she served as the Second Teacher and Education Program Coordinator at the International Kadampa Retreat Center Grand Canyon in Williams, AZ. She has also been Resident Teacher at Kadampa Meditation Center South Carolina, Kadampa Meditation Center Phoenix, and Dharmachakra Center in Palm Springs, CA. She is an inspiring example of Modern Buddhism in practice. She presents Buddha’s teachings with beautiful clarity, warmth and sincerity, skillfully guiding people from all walks of life to find inner peace and lasting happiness.