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Foundation Program

Foundation Program is designed for those who wish to deepen their understanding and experience of Kadampa Buddhism through a systematic study of six texts by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche.  Joining this structured study program of Buddha’s teachings brings great benefits by:

  • deepening our meditation practice
  • meeting spiritual friends and become part of a spiritual community
  • developing our good heart
  • enhancing our love, compassion and wisdom

Interested in Joining?

Email the Education Program Coordinator  epc@meditateinoc.org.

The New Heart of Wisdom
Sundays, 2pm - 4pm
with Resident Teacher, Kadam Amy Peng

This special presentation of Buddha's teachings offers truly liberating insights and advice for the contemporary reader.  It reveals the profound meaning of the very heart of Buddha’s teachings - the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras.  By revealing the profound meaning of this sutra, we will understand how all our problems and suffering come from our ignorance of the ultimate nature of reality, and how we can abandon this ignorance and come to enjoy pure and lasting happiness.

 

Foundation Program Books

Joyful Path of Good Fortune – We gain the ability to put all Buddha’s teachings of both Sutra and Tantra into practice. We can easily make progress on and complete the stages of the path to the supreme happiness of enlightenment. From a practical point of view, the Stages of the Path, or Lamrim, is the main body of Buddha’s teachings, and the other teachings are like its limbs.

Universal Compassion and The New Eight  Steps to Happiness – We gain the ability to integrate Buddha’s teachings into our daily life and solve all our human problems, especially learning how to transform adverse conditions in to the path to enlightenment.

The New Heart of Wisdom – We gain a realization of the ultimate nature of reality, emptiness. By gaining this realization we can eliminate the ignorance of self-grasping that is the root of all our suffering.

Meaningful to Behold – We transform our daily activities into the Bodhisattva’s way of life of the six perfections, thereby making every moment of our human life meaningful.

How to Understand the Mind – We understand the relationship between our mind and its external objects. If we understand that objects depend upon the subjective mind we can change the way objects appear to us by changing our own mind. Gradually we shall gain the ability to control our mind and in this way solve all our problems.

Foundation Program Teacher

Kadam Amy Peng
Resident Teacher

Over the past 15 years, Kadam Amy Peng has taught at Kadampa centers in Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Monica & Palm Springs.  In June of 2025, she accepted the role of Resident Teacher of Vajrayogini Kadampa Buddhist Center. Kadam Amy completed the 2018 Intensive Teacher Training Program at Manjushri Kadampa Meditation Centre in Ulverston, England.  With warmth and sincerity, Kadam Amy shows the joy of integrating Buddha’s teachings into daily life and is an inspiring example of modern Kadampa Buddhist practitioner. 

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