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Established in the tradition of the forest monastery our Center offers in person and virtual services, weekly support sangha's, and classes skillfully designed to nurture your mindfulness meditation practice, well-being, and path towards liberation.

02/02/2026

When life feels heavy, our habits often pull us toward extremes, avoidance on one side, overwhelm on the other. The Buddha offered another way: the Middle Path. In this talk, we explore how walking the Middle Path can support us through difficult seasons with clarity, compassion, and balance.

Hard times are not a failure of practice; they are the practice. Together, we reflect on how mindfulness, wise effort, and non-attachment help us meet suffering without becoming lost in it. This teaching is for anyone navigating uncertainty, stress, grief, or recovery, and longing for steadiness in the midst of change.

If this message resonates, consider subscribing and walking the path with our growing sangha. May this reflection help you meet life as it is and move through it with peace.

Sathu. Sathu. Sathu.
Buddham Saranam Gacchami

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Vladimir imparts the Buddha's Dharma with warmth and skill, filling the world's deep need for loving-kindness, compassion, and empathy.
To learn more visit us at: www.bluelotusmeditation.us
Looking for a way to help guide others? Become a Blue Lotus Aspirant here: https://bluelotusmeditation.us/continue-your-journey
YouTube Supporting Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXWeAcmKhx9y37XDpvn4xPA/join
US Tax deductible donations may be offered here: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=88BRNH3K7Y7FQ

02/01/2026

We are pleased to present to you our February livestreaming event offerings.

Participating in these live events is a meaningful way to stay aligned with your intentions throughout the year. Practicing in community provides gentle accountability, encouragement, and inspiration, especially when motivation feels challenging. Whether you join for reflection, meditation, or conversation, these offerings are here to support you to continue walking the path with mindfulness and care.

Additionally, we offer more free weekly support offerings for LGBQT+, teens, veterans, and more. Please check our website for more information and to register.

Sathu. Sathu. Sathu.
Buddham Saranam Gacchami

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Vladimir imparts the Buddha's Dharma with warmth and skill, filling the world's deep need for loving-kindness, compassion, and empathy.

To learn more visit us at: www.bluelotusmeditation.us

01/30/2026

Weekend Reflection: Form (Rūpa)

This weekend, bring mindful attention to Form, the aggregate of the physical body and the material world. Notice posture, breath, temperature, and movement. Feel your feet on the ground as you walk, the weight of your body as you sit, the subtle sensations that arise and pass away moment by moment. Rather than treating the body as an object to control or criticize, meet it as a living process, constantly changing, responding, and communicating.

Over the weekend, practice simply inhabiting the body with kindness. Eat slowly. Stretch gently. Rest when tired. When discomfort arises, observe it without immediately reacting. Form is not “you,” but it is the doorway through which awareness enters this moment. Care for it without clinging to it.

01/28/2026

Morning Meditation and Live Q & A

01/26/2026

Hello friends,

Recovery can be a difficult process. Oftentimes one is overcome by shame and feelings of being less-than which prohibit a meaningful journey towards a sobor and gentler way of living. Whether you have outside support or not only you can do the work involved to walk this journey, one mindful step at a time.

Whether you’re on day one, coming back from a relapse, or have years of sobor time, Thirty Days of Gratitude: A Dharma-Centered Journal For Recovery offers you an opportunity to pause and reflect on each day with gratitude, helping you to shift your focus from what you may not have but to appreciate all that you do have.

To learn more or to purchase this supportive and nurturing resource visit: https://bluelotusmeditation.us/shopping

01/25/2026

To live in peace is to be inherently incapable of causing harm. By the very nature of compassion and empathy, we find it impossible to injure another. It is only when suffering fester within that a person takes pleasure in the pain of others. When we harm another, two people are injured, and the cycle of suffering continues. Those who enjoy witnessing injury or who justify violence carry a deep, internal burden of pain.

Consider the story of the Buddha and Angulimala. Though Angulimala was a notorious killer who wore a garland of his victims' fingers, the Buddha did not meet him with fear. Instead, he met him with boundless compassion. Through this gesture, the Buddha showed Angulimala that he could abandon his path of evil at any moment. It was not through violent confrontation, but through this unwavering grace, that Angulimala changed his ways.

The Buddha did not use force, bribes, or lectures. He simply met a man overflowing with suffering with a heart full of compassion.

When a person is consumed by suffering, that pain becomes their entire world, a distorted comfort zone. They mistakenly believe that causing hurt will make their own pain vanish, often rationalizing their actions by claiming others deserved it. But peace only comes through a conscious decision to end the cycle.

Violence will always breed more violence; that is a universal law. Only love, compassion, and empathy can bring violence to an end.

While we cannot control the world, we are fully capable of controlling ourselves. That is where true peace is found.

If you seek a modern example of this power, look to the monks' walk for peace.

Many blessings to you, and I wish you all a peaceful heart.

Vladimir

01/24/2026

Letting go of expectations is one of the most compassionate gifts we can offer ourselves. Expectations quietly shape how we think life should unfold, and when reality doesn’t cooperate, frustration and disappointment arise. By noticing these mental habits and gently loosening our grip on them, we create space for life to be experienced as it is, rather than as we demand it to be. In that openness, the heart softens and the mind becomes less reactive.

When we release expectations, balance naturally begins to return. We stop measuring each moment against an imagined outcome and instead meet it with curiosity and presence. This doesn’t mean abandoning intention or effort; it means letting go of attachment to results. From this place, our actions become calmer, wiser, and less driven by fear or control. Peace grows not because circumstances are perfect, but because we are no longer at war with them.

A peaceful life is not built by forcing serenity, but by allowing impermanence to teach us. Each time we notice an expectation and choose to release it, we step closer to equanimity. With practice, this letting go becomes a way of being, one that invites patience, compassion, and a deeper trust in the unfolding of life.

Sathu. Sathu. Sathu.
Buddham Saranam Gacchami

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Vladimir imparts the Buddha's Dharma with warmth and skill, filling the world's deep need for loving-kindness, compassion, and empathy.

To learn more visit us at: www.bluelotusmeditation.us

Looking for a way to help guide others? Become a Blue Lotus Aspirant here: https://bluelotusmeditation.us/continue-your-journey

YouTube Supporting Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXWeAcmKhx9y37XDpvn4xPA/join

US Tax deductible donations may be offered here: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=88BRNH3K7Y7FQ

01/23/2026

How fast is the present moment?

By the time you’ve read this, the moment has moved into the next present moment, never to come again.

01/22/2026

When we fail to look deeply within, we easily become agitated by our surroundings, clouding our perceptions and understanding. As such, we focus our attention towards the insignificant thus elevating that condition to false importance.

This is not Right View.

Instead, we must look deeply within, challenging ourselves on why we are holding onto ideas, concepts, and notions so strongly. When we do we realize that what we once considered important is easily discarded, our agitated state begins to settle, and clarity arises aligning with Right View.

Sathu. Sathu. Sathu.
Buddham Saranam Gacchami

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Vladimir imparts the Buddha's Dharma with warmth and skill, filling the world's deep need for loving-kindness, compassion, and empathy.

To learn more visit us at: www.bluelotusmeditation.us

Looking for a way to help guide others? Become a Blue Lotus Aspirant here: https://bluelotusmeditation.us/continue-your-journey

YouTube Supporting Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXWeAcmKhx9y37XDpvn4xPA/join

US Tax deductible donations may be offered here: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=88BRNH3K7Y7FQ

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01/21/2026

A weekly opportunity for you to find balance in your day, reconnect with yourself and ask the questions to support your practice.

01/19/2026

Discover how Buddhism and the Dharma gently guide us toward our authentic self, not by creating a new identity, but by releasing the false ones that cause suffering. In this livestream Dharma talk, we explore core Buddhist teachings such as mindfulness, non-attachment, loving-kindness, and the wisdom of non-self (anatta), drawing from the Buddha’s own words and ancient sutras. Through reflection and practical insight, this talk invites you to look deeply into your own experience with clarity and compassion.

Whether you are new to meditation or have been walking the Buddhist path for some time, this teaching offers a grounded and accessible way to reconnect with what is most true within you. Join us as we learn how letting go of rigid identities can open the heart, calm the mind, and reveal a life lived with greater freedom, authenticity, and peace.

Sathu. Sathu. Sathu.
Buddham Saranam Gacchami

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Vladimir imparts the Buddha's Dharma with warmth and skill, filling the world's deep need for loving-kindness, compassion, and empathy.

To learn more visit us at: www.bluelotusmeditation.us

Looking for a way to help guide others? Become a Blue Lotus Aspirant here: https://bluelotusmeditation.us/continue-your-journey

YouTube Supporting Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXWeAcmKhx9y37XDpvn4xPA/join

US Tax deductible donations may be offered here: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=88BRNH3K7Y7FQ

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11108 Eagle View Drive
Brainerd, MN
56401

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+12182039690

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https://bluelotusmeditation.us/

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