Finding Balance, Finding Peace - Full Day Retreat in Fort Worth

Saturday, October 19, 2024
9:30 AM 4:00 PM 09:30 16:00

Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge 9601 Fossil Ridge Road Fort Worth, TX, 76135 United States (map)

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Finding Balance, Finding Peace - Full Day Retreat in Fort Worth

Everyone wants to be happy and no one wants to suffer, but very few people understand the real causes of happiness and suffering. All our life we have tried to adjust the external world, trying to make it conform to our wishes, yet still we have not found pure and lasting happiness.

If we have to walk across rough and thorny ground, one way of protecting our feet is to cover the whole ground with leather; but this is not very practical. We can achieve the same result in a much simpler way – by covering our feet. Similarly, if we wish to protect ourself from suffering we can either try to change the whole world to make it conform to our wishes, or we can change our mind. Happiness is a state of mind, so the real source of happiness must lie within the mind, not in external conditions.

Through the inner practice of meditation, our mind will gradually become more and more peaceful, and we will experience a purer form of happiness within. Eventually, we will be able to stay happy and experience balance and peace, even in the most difficult circumstances.

Schedule

Saturday, October 19
9:30am - 10:30am - Teaching and Meditation Session 1
10:30am - 11:30am - Coffee / Tea Break
11:30am - 12:30pm - Teaching and Meditation Session 2
12:30pm - 2:00pm - Lunch (lunch is on your own)
2:00pm - 4:00pm - Teaching and Meditation Session 3 with Q&A / Discussion

Cost

$30 General Admission
$25 Students, Seniors, Veterans, First Responders and low income at this time
$20 KMC Texas Members
Free to KMC Benefactors

Location

Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge
9601 Fossil Ridge Road
Fort Worth, TX 76135
https://www.fwnaturecenter.org

Teacher

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GEN KELSANG MENLA

Gen Kelsang Menla, ordained in 2001, was appointed as the Resident Teacher of KMC Texas in Dallas in 2017. He brings a warm heart and joyful attitude to sharing Buddha’s teachings and the practice of meditation. In the last 25 years, in addition to giving teachings and guiding meditations which have reached thousands of people, Menla has completed temple building projects in Baltimore, MD, Albuquerque, NM and here in Dallas, TX. His passion is for helping to create harmonious communities filled with genuine joy, that become sources of true healing.