Quebec Dharma Celebration 2024

It is a great joy to see the Kadampa family of the province of Quebec gathering at KMC Montreal for our annual Dharma Celebration with our National Spiritual Director and Deputy Spiritual Director of NKT, Gen-la Kelsang Jampa!

A team of volunteers has been working hard to ensure that, despite some unforeseen circumstances, the Celebration can take place and that everyone can enjoy in the best conditions possible. The shop is filled with beautiful offerings, the World Peace Cafe overflowed with desserts prepared with care and the decorated community room gave a festive atmosphere.

The introduction was taught by Gen Kelsang Chögyan, KMC Montreal's Resident Teacher. She inspired us to rejoice in our Celebrations created by Venerable Geshe-la, which give us the opportunity to seek refuge in the Three Jewels. We gather to receive Buddha's blessings, listen to and practice holy Dharma, and inspire one another as a Sangha community.

To prepare for the empowerment and teachings, Kelsang Tsulma, Resident Teacher of KMC Shamata in Trois-Rivières, led us in beautiful meditations to grow our faith, contemplating Guru Buddha Shakyamuni's excellent qualities, feeling his presence and wishing to become like him a source of happiness and goodness for others.

Gen-la Jampa gave a powerful Buddha Shakyamuni empowerment with great gentleness and encouraged us to strive to always remember Guru Buddha at our heart. Next year, when we meet again, we want to be able to say that we remember Buddha more often in our hearts than we did this year!

We've been given a great banquet of instructions on the profound meaning of the Liberating Prayer, and an invitation to make our own personal commentary to it. After the last teaching, we all said farewell to each other with great affection, wishing to see each other again very soon.