Kadampa Meditation Center

KMC Houston is a peaceful place of refuge and spiritual community.

We present meditation and Buddha’s timeless wisdom for a calmer, happier life. Everyone is welcome in our community.

We're a volunteer run, modern Buddhist meditation center that is one of over 1300 Kadampa Temples, Centers and branches in nearly 50 countries. We offer meditation classes and retreats with a focus on practical techniques to use in daily life.

First time meditators or seasoned practitioners… Everybody welcome!

KMC HOUSTON is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization offering classes and events in meditation and modern Buddhism that are open to everyone. 

Our meditation classes are suitable for everyone, whatever their level of experience, and have a practical focus on improving the quality of our mind and life.

“Without inner peace in the hearts of living beings, there can be no outer peace.” ~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

By practicing Kadampa Buddhist meditation we can:

Solve Daily Problems

All our classes and retreats are designed to solve the problems of modern living, providing relevant solutions to the struggles we all face on a day to day basis. Through practical, simple, and scientific methods, everyone can directly transform the way they perceive themselves, others, and the world in which we live. We offer tools you can immediately apply to solve daily problems and become calmer, more relaxed, and happier.

Heal Mental Pain

Buddha’s teachings provide practical solutions to pervasive mental and emotional difficulties, helping to heal anxiety, stress, anger, frustration, depression, loneliness, jealousy, addiction, boredom, and confusion.

Cultivate Good Qualities

Through spititual training, we can all learn to cultivate inner qualities that lead to authentic, lasting peace simply by changing our thoughts and attitudes. Through practicing Kadampa Buddhist meditation, we become kinder, more patient, positive, joyful, relaxed, confident, focused, content, blissful, creative, and fulfilled

Change Ourselves, Heal Our World

The practical meditations and ideas we teach help people change their mind, which is the most powerful agent of change in the world. Our experience of everything is a reflection of the quality of our mind. So, if we wish to change our world, we need to change the quality of our mind. By thinking about ourselves, others, and the world around us in more constructive and positive ways, we are able to have a positive impact upon our relationships and our world.

Develop Your Spiritual Potential

We have an extraordinary capacity to change. Step by step, we can learn how to tap into this powerful potential that lies within. Gradually, through training our mind, we can ripen our highest spiritual potential, the fully awakened state of enlightenment, and be of tremendous benefit to our family, friends, and to this world.

Cultivate Good Qualities

Through spititual training, we can all learn to cultivate inner qualities that lead to authentic, lasting peace simply by changing our thoughts and attitudes. Through practicing Kadampa Buddhist meditation, we become kinder, more patient, positive, joyful, relaxed, confident, focused, content, blissful, creative, and fulfilled

Kadampa Meditation Center Houston is Part of the New Kadampa Tradition

Kadampa Buddhism is a special presentation of Buddha’s teachings designed especially for the people of the modern world. All the practices come from Buddha Shakyamuni and have been preserved over the centuries by an unbroken lineage of fully-realized Teachers.

Venerable Geshe Kelsang’s presentation retains all the meanings and insights of Buddha’s original teachings while offering them in a way that is accessible and suitable for modern-day practitioners. Through this great skill, everyone – regardless of race, nationality, background, age, or gender – now has the opportunity to practice scientifically-proven methods for solving the problems of daily life that ultimately lead to true and lasting happiness.

Founded by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

The New Kadampa Tradition was founded by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso after he moved to the West in 1977 at the request of students in England seeking authentic Buddhist teachings and meditation.

MKMC is one of 1,300+ locations worldwide

The New Kadampa Tradition started at Manjushri Kadampa Meditation Centre in England and is now established in more than 1,300 locations throughout the world.

Giving everyone a way to live up to their potential

Since his arrival in the West, Geshe Kelsang has written 24 books which explain modern Buddhism, a special presentation of all of Buddha’s teachings of Sutra and Tantra that is suitable for contemporary society.

© 2024 KMC Houston is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

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