Sunshine Meditation Center

Welcome to Sunshine Meditation Center (Mahamevnawa Florida)

The Sunshine Meditation Center is a branch of Mahamevnawa Meditation Monastery in Sri Lanka. SMC works as Mahamevnawa Meditation Center Florida (MMMF). The SMC will provide a quiet, peaceful refuge for all humanity (both Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike) with facilities that promote meditation, personal reflection, and spiritual growth. It is our goal to lessen, and inevitably eliminate, the suffering of all beings. We will emphasize the universal teaching of the Buddha that can be applied to modern life. We encourage everyone to take what they can use, nothing more.Sunshine Meditation Center is a great place where you can learn and practice meditation, Buddhism, Buddhist philosophy and Yoga. We are located in the heart of Tampa. Very convenient to access to our center from anywhere you come.

Mahamevnawa Meditation Monastery Florida Inc (MMMF) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the practice and teaching of Buddha Gotama known as Theravada Buddhism. MMMF is the Florida (US) branch of Mahamevnawa Buddhist Monastery of Sri Lanka.

It is our mission to advance the Buddha’s teachings of generosity, morality and meditation and to enhance the spiritual life of our members and the general public through cultivating friendship, compassion and wisdom. The services of this organization are open to any member of the public interested in learning and practicing Theravada Buddhism.

It is MMMF’s long term plan to establish a Buddhist monastery in Florida according to the Sri Lankan forest monk/nun tradition in an area conducive for meditation and to invite Dhamma & Vinaya practicing monks & nuns to reside at our branch and support them in their efforts to study, teach and apply the Buddha’s teachings and share their inspiration, knowledge and wisdom with the general public in Florida.

MMMF’s ultimate motive is to foster a deeper practice of the Buddhist ethics for the wellbeing of individuals, families and society at large, to help individuals of all ethnic and religious backgrounds to find peace and mental calmness through concentration and mindfulness and to promote the study and application of insight meditation (vipassana) which will ultimately lead to the attainment of Nirvana.