With Special Guest Gen Samten Kelsang, Resident Teacher at Kadampa World Peace Temple
We live in an age of profound disconnection. Beneath the noise of a troubled world, many of us carry a quieter suffering - a feeling of isolation, of being separate, of being alone with our pain. Yet the Buddha taught that this sense of separation is not a fixed reality. It is a mistake - and one that can be undone.
This one-day seminar explores how meditation on emptiness gently dissolves the boundary we feel between ourselves and others. As that boundary softens, something unexpected arises in its place. Not just understanding, but warmth. Not just insight, but love. And where genuine love for others takes root, hope becomes not a wish but a living experience.
Come and discover why emptiness - perhaps the most misunderstood word in Buddhism - is not a teaching about nothingness, but about openness. The openness of your own mind. The openness of the future. And the possibility, closer than you think, of a life and a world transformed by love.”
Gen Samten is one of Venerable Geshe‑la’s senior-most disciples, with decades of meditative and teaching experience. He is an ordained Buddhist monk, and oversees the spiritual program at the Kadampa World Peace temple in upstate New York. He teaches throughout the US and around the world and is renowned for the clarity of his teachings, his ability to help students improve their practice, and his skill in leading practitioners to profound meditative insights.
