Amoghasiddhi Kadampa Buddhist Centre
Date: Sunday 27th to Thursday 31st August
Times and Costs: See below

Liberating Prayer Retreat

Without Buddha’s kindness we would not know the real causes of happiness or the real causes of suffering.Buddha taught us how all happiness and suffering depend upon the mind. He showed us how to abandon those states of mind that cause suffering and cultivate those states of mind that cause happiness.In other words, he taught us perfect methods for overcoming suffering and attaining happiness. No one else taught us these methods. How kind Buddha is! It is for this reason that Kadampa Buddhists begin every practice by reciting this special prayer to Buddha composed by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.

Please give me the light of your wisdom
To dispel the darkness of my mind
And to heal my mental continuum

One of the most central practices at Kadampa Centres around the world is the recitation and contemplation of the Liberating Prayer. This brief and beautiful praise to Buddha Shakyamuni, composed by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso directly for the people of this modern world, is a profound exploration of the nature of enlightenment that allows us to open up to and connect with the blessings of the Buddhas, thereby greatly inspiring us on our own path to enlightenment.

Kelsang Gyalpo will guide meditations and share insights based upon Geshe Kelsang’s commentaries that will allow us to go deeper in our contemplation’s on this beautiful, poetic, inspiring prayers.