Dharmadhatu Kalamazoo Meditation Center

Dharmadhatu Kalamazoo is devoted to the practice and study of teachings by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Chögyam Trungpa was a Buddhist meditation master and holder of both the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism, the eleventh Trungpa tulku, a terton, supreme abbot of the Surmang monasteries, scholar, teacher, poet, and artist. He was a major figure in bringing Tibetan Buddhism to the West, founding Vajradhatu and Naropa University. chogyam trungpa Dharmadhatu Kalamazoo meets on the lower level at The Center for Psychotherapy and Our core practice is mindfulness-awareness meditation. This meditation practice enables us to look precisely at our state of mind, moment by moment. By not manipulating or altering our experience, we truly make friends with ourselves as we are, unconditionally. From that, we develop natural openness and genuine compassion towards ourselves and our world. We can bring the clarity and gentleness of mindfulness and awareness into our everyday lives, realizing the awake potential of all states of mind. Developing loving-kindness towards ourselves in this way is the ground of compassion. Meditation Instruction has been transmitted orally from teacher to student in an ongoing lineage that goes back 2,500 years. Senior members of the Shambhala organization have been especially trained and authorized to be meditation instructors. They instruct students in the practice of meditation and work with them in the development of their practice, while also helping them to join the view and experience of meditation with every day life. Meditation instruction is available free of charge.