KMC-LI Huntington
Our Main Center
282 New York Avenue
Huntington, NY 11743
(631) 549-1000
[email protected]
Illness as a Spiritual Practice
Through teachings, guided reflections, and shared inquiry, we’ll examine how physical and mental suffering can open the heart, deepen compassion, and reveal the impermanence and interconnection at the core of spiritual life.
Children’s Meditation Class
In these once/month classes, children learn simple meditations, as well as methods to calm their minds and deal with negative feelings.
Thanksgiving Day Meditation & Potluck
Join us for what has become an annual KMC-LI holiday tradition. Our doors are open on Thanksgiving Day to give everyone an opportunity to pause, reflect, and contemplate all the ways in which we are blessed.
Meet The Buddhas! Prajnaparamita Puja Party: Dispelling Obstacles with the Great Mother
Join us for a relaxing evening in community with like-minded spiritual friends. This is the first of three 'puja parties' that our center will be hosting over the year.
Children’s Meditation Class
In these once/month classes, children learn simple meditations, as well as methods to calm their minds and deal with negative feelings.
KMC-LI Holiday Potluck & White Elephant Gift Exchange
Everyone is welcome to this FREE community event where we will gather together after the Sunday class for a potluck brunch, and spend some time as a sangha family.
Slow-Down Saturdays: Digital Detox & Mental Refresh
This half-day getaway features gentle, peaceful meditations, unplugged from the digital world – which is super helpful in our modern age, and we warmly invite you to take advantage of our slow-down Saturdays, especially if you are new to the practice of meditation.
New Year's Eve Compassion Prayers By Candlelight
Join us for this very special way to bring in the new year. Together we’ll meditate on our sincere wish for true freedom and happiness for all beings
SILENT SATURDAY MINI RETREAT
Experience the deep restorative power of silence by slowing down and quieting our minds.
Illness as a Spiritual Practice
Through teachings, guided reflections, and shared inquiry, we’ll examine how physical and mental suffering can open the heart, deepen compassion, and reveal the impermanence and interconnection at the core of spiritual life.
Children’s Meditation Class
In these once/month classes, children learn simple meditations, as well as methods to calm their minds and deal with negative feelings.
25th Anniversary: Free Guided Meditations & Open House All Weekend
Free guided meditations and open house all weekend commemorating the events of September 11 and celebrating the 25th anniversary of our center.
Patiently Waiting, Wisdom Coming: A Mini-Meditation Retreat on the Power of Patience
Join us for this mini-meditation retreat with guest teacher Kerrin Perniciaro as we begin to learn how to develop patience and wisdom in our daily lives through three short, guided meditation sessions.
I Thought I’d Be Happier By Now
Join us for this practical two-part workshop and discover a more reliable source of happiness. A happiness that remains with you regardless of life's changing circumstances.
Help! I’m a People Pleaser
Buddha can help us with practical advice and strategies for uncovering these survival-based patterns and transforming them through: • knowing our true value • setting wise boundaries • and learning ways of helping and giving that leave us feeling peaceful, relaxed and of greater benefit to others than ever before.
Illness as a Spiritual Practice
Illness often arrives uninvited, disrupting our lives and plans. Yet within its difficulty lies a profound opportunity for awakening. This course invites participants to explore illness—not as a detour from the spiritual path, but as part of the path itself.
Saturdays in June: From Concentration Comes Peace: Training in Tranquil Abiding
By attending these four sessions, and maintaining this practice daily on your own in between sessions, we will gain the familiarity needed to practice on our own going forward. Over time we will be able to meditate for longer periods of time while holding our object with single-pointed focus, improving our concentration and making a deep imprint in our mind.
Saturdays in June: From Concentration Comes Peace: Training in Tranquil Abiding
By attending these four sessions, and maintaining this practice daily on your own in between sessions, we will gain the familiarity needed to practice on our own going forward. Over time we will be able to meditate for longer periods of time while holding our object with single-pointed focus, improving our concentration and making a deep imprint in our mind.
Saturdays in June: From Concentration Comes Peace: Training in Tranquil Abiding
By attending these four sessions, and maintaining this practice daily on your own in between sessions, we will gain the familiarity needed to practice on our own going forward. Over time we will be able to meditate for longer periods of time while holding our object with single-pointed focus, improving our concentration and making a deep imprint in our mind.
Silent Retreat - A Taste of Clarity and Peace
Experience the deep restorative power of silence by slowing down and quieting our minds.
Summer Sunday Brunch
Join us after Sunday class for our annual summer celebration. Enjoy a delicious brunch, good conversation and plenty of fun
From Concentration Comes Peace: Training in Tranquil Abiding
By attending these four sessions, and maintaining this practice daily on your own in between sessions, we will gain the familiarity needed to practice on our own going forward. Over time we will be able to meditate for longer periods of time while holding our object with single-pointed focus, improving our concentration and making a deep imprint in our mind.
Offering of Our Faith Retreat
On this special day, we’ll contemplate the prayer Request to the Holy Spiritual Guide Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso from his Faithful Disciples and we’ll have plenty of time to recite Geshe-la’s name mantra in each session of the retreat.
Children’s Meditation Class
In these once/month classes, children learn simple meditations, as well as methods to calm their minds and deal with negative feelings.
The Medicine of Hope: With Special Guest Teacher Gen Samten Kelsang
We live in an age of profound disconnection. Beneath the noise of a troubled world, many of us carry a quieter suffering - a feeling of isolation, of being separate, of being alone with our pain. Yet the Buddha taught that this sense of separation is not a fixed reality. It is a mistake - and one that can be undone.
Join us for this course on the nature of reality with this extraordinary teacher.
Children’s Meditation Class
In these once/month classes, children learn simple meditations, as well as methods to calm their minds and deal with negative feelings.
Special Event: Tuesday & Wednesday, April 14 & 15 Nyungne: Two-Day Purification Retreat Celebrating Buddha’s Enlightenment Day
Every year to celebrate Buddha’s Enlightenment Day, we engage in the fasting & purification practice of 1,000-armed Avalokiteshvara, called Drop of Essential Nectar, which is a wonderful meditation on love and compassion, and a deeply effective prayer for world peace.
STOP ‘FIXING’ YOURSELF! Self-Acceptance, Self-Respect & the Key to Happiness
Through Buddha’s wisdom advice and the practice of meditation we can learn to connect with a deeper sense of who we are. We discover a new way of relating to ourselves and our potential
Purify Your Mind, Purify Your World. Vajrasattva Purification Retreat
Join us to engage in the purification practice of Vajrasattva.
This traditional Buddhist practice of purification enables us to gradually eliminate the burden of negative karma we are carrying by applying the “Four Opponent Powers”.
Crystal Clear Mind: The Blessing Empowerment Of Buddha Vajrasattva
This empowerment is a blessing ritual and guided
meditation through which we make a deep connection with Vajrasattva, who can inspire and guide us to actualize our full spiritual potential. In the afternoon we will learn about the purification practice of Vajrasattva.
Children’s Meditation Class
In these once/month classes, children learn simple meditations, as well as methods to calm their minds and deal with negative feelings.
Rays of Light in the Darkness: Meditations for Working with Depression
By learning and engaging in some traditional meditations and practices, we can develop some effective ways to work with depression.
Children’s Meditation Class
In these once/month classes, children learn simple meditations, as well as methods to calm their minds and deal with negative feelings.
Valentine’s Day Finding True Connection Mini Retreat on Lovingkindness
Spend the morning with us experiencing the healing power of lovingkindness.
CRYSTAL CLEAR MINDTHE BLESSING EMPOWERMENT OF BUDDHA VAJRASATTVA
In these once/month classes, children learn simple meditations, as well as methods to calm their minds and deal with negative feelings.
Taking & Giving
This meditation is an easy and very effective way to heal the deepest causes of pain and suffering and effortlessly benefit ourselves and all others.
Silent Night Retreat: Compassion Mantras for the World
Take a rest from the holiday busyness and reconnect with your heart, the deeper meaning of the season and the nourishing power of love.
Silent Saturday Solstice Mini Retreat
Take a rest from your phone and all the holiday activity and join us to experience the deep restorative power of silence.