Tush*ta Kadampa Buddhist Center

10/08/2025

PNW Sangha at Fall Festival 🩷❤️🩷

09/05/2025

Saturday Class with Rob Lutz
September 20

Atisha was an 11th Century teacher and meditation master who helped revitalize Dharma practice in Tibet. In his final teaching to the Tibetan community he gave practical guidance in growing our compassion and controlling our mind.

In this two session course we will learn about Atisha’s advice and the meaning of this timeless Dharma teaching.

No Buddhist background or meditation experience required.

Everyone is welcome! 🤗

$16 (no one turned away)

08/22/2025

Drop-in for our special 3-week Monday evening series in September!

Everyone wants to be happy and no one wants to suffer, but very few people understand the real causes of happiness and suffering. All our life we have tried to adjust the external world, trying to make it conform to our wishes, yet still we have not found pure and lasting happiness.

In this 3-week series, we’ll learn about different mindsets that prevent us from finding inner peace, and practice meditations that can help us to access a peaceful mind even in trying circumstances. Everyone is welcome!

08/12/2025

Come join us in Portland for Medicine Buddha Empowerment with Kadam Heather! 🤗🩵💙

When our body is sick, we seek medical help from doctors- but where do we turn when our mind is sick with delusions such as anger and attachment, the root causes of all our suffering?
You’re invited to Portland’s annual blessing ritual empowerment where we seek assistance from Medicine Buddha! ☸️🎉
Registration requested at

https://meditationinoregon.org/mec-events/portland-medicine-buddha-empowerment-2025/?occurrence=2025-09-13

08/11/2025

May everyone be free from suffering 🙏🏼

08/06/2025

Buddha taught that all of our negative thoughts and emotions arise because we are unaware, or ignorant, of how our world really exists. In this half-day course we will explore a deeper understanding of the way our world appears.

Schedule
Session 1: 10:00 – 11:15 am
Break: 11:15 – 11:45 am
Session 2: 11:45 am – 1:00 pm

$16 (no one turned away)

08/06/2025

Sundays with Rob Lutz
August 17 - September 21
10 - 11:15 am

In this series, we’ll be applying Buddhist teachings on compassion in order to connect more meaningfully with others. Our focus is usually solely on our self. Our wishes, our needs, our suffering, our happiness. By actively shifting our focus away from ourself and towards others, we can find contentment and strengthen our relationships with other living beings.

06/15/2025

Many of us have the wish to help others and the world, but we don’t know how to accomplish this successfully in daily life. Bodhisattvas are friends of the world, which means that they care about everyone. Through the force of their compassion, they engage in special practices, called the six perfections, that enable them to transform all their activities into methods to benefit others. We’ll learn how to develop beneficial intentions that will help us to bring a bodhisattva mindset into all of our daily activities.

June 29 – Intro: Transcending the ordinary
July 6 – Growing generosity
July 13 – Where is your mind at?
July 20 – Remaining calm in difficult circumstances
July 27 – Keeping engaged
August 3 – Finding focus
August 10 – How things exist

$12 - no one turned away

https://meditateinolympia.org/transcending-the-ordinary/

06/02/2025

Thursdays with Rob Lutz
June 5, 12 and 19
6:00 - 7:15 pm

When we experience stress and tension in our lives, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed or powerless; but it doesn’t have to be that way. All of us possess inner reservoirs of peace, wisdom, and calm that we can rely on during difficult times.
In this 3-week series, we’ll explore different Buddhist teachings that connect us to these beneficial minds.

$12 - no one turned away
Everyone welcome!

05/28/2025

Our unpeaceful states of mind that cause us to suffer and perform harmful actions are just bad mental habits, and like all habits they can be broken. Just as it is possible to separate mud from water, so it is possible to eliminate all of our bad habits from our mind. Then there is nothing that can disturb our inner peace and joy.

Discover the transformative power of meditation to break free from negative cycles and cultivate inner peace. In this series you’ll learn practical tools to overcome the mental habits that keep us from finding peace and happiness.

$12 - no one turned away

Everyone welcome!

05/28/2025

In this course we will learn how to transform our relationships simply by changing the way we view others and relating to them differently. We will also learn how to protect our mind from being stressed, frustrated and resentful towards others. By applying these practical methods in our daily life, our relationships will become harmonious and satisfying for everyone involved and difficult people will disappear from our lives.

$16 - no one turned away

Everyone welcome!

04/29/2025

Sundays
May 4, 11, and 25 (No class May 18)
10 - 11:15 am
$12 - no one turned away

How do we maintain a peaceful mind with all the negativity we encounter in our world?

Buddha showed that by cultivating the habit of beneficial ways of thinking we can engage in life in a light and relaxed way that not only affords us a rich sense of wellbeing but also brings a joyful energy to all our relationships and interactions. We’ll explore Buddhist teachings on contentment and compassion that will enable us to develop and hold a positive mind. Probably the kindest thing we can do for ourself and others is to experience the power of a positive mind.

No Buddhist background or meditation experience required. You may drop-in any week or attend the full series.